MERCANTILISM,
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY 

CONCEPTS:

-Between the 1400s and 1700s European countries adopted an economic system called mercantilism.

-Beliefs, ideas, and institutions affected people living in the American colonies.

DISCOVER:

-Why the American colonies important to England's policy of mercantilism.

-What issues caused the French and British to go to war over the Ohio Valley

  
To view Main Idea questions for Reading: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Triangular Trade Routes

Young George Washington
1753
General Braddock
1753
French and Indians Use Guerilla War Style of Fighting

 
Battle of Quebec
1759
Death of General Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham
1759

 
Sources:

Berkin, Carol and Leonard Wood.  The Land of Promise.  Illinois:  Scott Foresman and Company, 1987.

Garraty, John A.  American History.  Illinois:  Harcourt Brace Javanovich, Publishers, 1982.

May, Ernest R.  A Proud Nation.  Illinois:  McDougal, Littell and Company, 1983.

Ritchie, Donald A. and Albert S. Broussard.  American History:  The Early Years.  Ohio:  Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1997.

 
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