Name _______________________________________ Date __________________ Period _______
Ms. Traficante
Ch. 5 Sec. 1 and 2
The Albany Congress and Albany Plan of Union
Goals
1. Britain wanted colonies to
cooperate and work together to
defend themselves.
2. Make an alliance with the Iroquois
3. Albany Plan of Union
a. One council will have the
authority:
i. Over western
settlements
ii. Over relations with
Natives
iii. To organize taxes and
armies
Outcomes
1. Colonies wanted to control
themselves, rather than
working together.
2. Iroquois rejected the alliance
3. Albany Plan of Union was
rejected – colonies wanted to
control their own taxes and
armies
AFTER the French and Indian War:
Treaty of Paris
Britain gained:
Spain gained:
1. French Canada
1. New Orleans
2. All French territory east
of the Mississippi
a. EXCEPT NEW
ORLEANS
3. Spanish Florida
2. All French territory west
of the Mississippi
AFTER the French and Indian War:
Pontiac’s War
Causes
1. British colonists move
west into Natives’ land
causing conflict.
Effects
1. Britain defeated
Pontiac’s forces, but still
worried about Native
aggression.
AFTER the French and Indian War:
The Proclamation of 1763
Causes
Proclamation of 1763: Banned
colonial settlement west of a line
drawn along the Appalachian
Mountains. Settlers west of the
line had to move back to a
location east of that line.
1. Too many conflicts with Natives
(i.e. Pontiac’s War)
2. Britain wanted to avoid further
conflicts
Effects
1. Colonists became extremely
angry
a. Fought and won the war
for the land in the Ohio
River Valley
b. Believed they had the
right to live wherever
they wanted.