Monday, May 3rd

a. Johnny Tremain people - due by Friday is the first installment of reading - pages 1-75.
b. Washington's letter to his mother (titled Braddock's Defeat) - think of what your answers would be for these questions: Washington is very respectful of his mother (are you?), what examples indicate this in the letter? The legend of the man really starts at this time - how close was he to death? (cite examples) How does Washington feel about the "professional" British soldiers? (cite examples)

c. Please read pages 146-150 in your history book. Read carefully, okay? Here are the questions you need to know:

1. By the mid 1700's the French Empire in North America consisted of what parts of land?
2. Compare the colonist popluations in the French and British empires. Who is vastly ahead?
3. One of the major causes of the war was over the fur trade. Fill in the blanks for these questions:

• The Huron and Algonquin peoples of the Great Lakes region were allied with ______________________.
• The Iroquois were allied with __________________________.
• The Iroquois were at the height of their power in the mid 1600s-early 1700's. Their control and influence spread from __________________________________________________________________.
• After trapping all the furs in their territories the Iroquois attacked the ________________________ driving them further west.
• This angered the ______________________ who armed their allies. The felt Iroquois expansion threatened ___________________________.
• In response, the Iroquois were armed by their allies the ___________________________. A series of conflicts resulted - King William's war, Queen Anne's war, and King George's war - all before the French and Indian War! So, you see, The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was actually the final war in a series of conflicts which basically would decide who would _________________________________.

4. In these battles below please tell who won and the importance of each battle:
Ft. Necessity (1754) -
Ft. Duquesne (1755) -
Braddock's Defeat (1755) also known as the Battle of the Wilderness -
Battle of Quebec (1759) -

5. What were the results of the Treat of Paris (1763) - who got what? who lost what?