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Road To Revolution
| topic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| competing empires | England and France feared,competed with each other. | Native Americans on land owned by both countries. | French left Natives alone; British did not | ||
| general Edward Braddock | British military official | used to fighting in an open filed | marched men in red coats and a single line | he and half of his men died | |
| seven years war | Britain declared war on France | included most major world powers at the time | |||
| William Pitt | prime minister of Britain | ||||
| James Wolfe | one of Britain's top generals | ||||
| The Ohio River Valle | french and British wanted land here | the french built forts | the governor of Virginia sent G.W to tell french to leave | French did not | |
| forts and conflicts rise | Washington returned and built a fort | Washington's troops attacked a small french fort | This began the french and Indian war | ||
| the Albany congress | meeting o fthe colony leaders | purpose to get colonists to help defeat the french | |||
| the Albany plan of union | created by Ben Franklin | would control western settlement | would handle relations with NA | could organize armies and collect taxes | colony rejected the plan |