Events Leading to Seven Years' War: (1754-1763)

• King Williams War (1689 - 1697)

Fought in Europe

British fail to seize Quebec City

• Queen Anne’s War (1702 – 1713)

French destroy Deerfield, Massachusetts

47 French and 200 Indians kill 5 Colonists

109 survivors taken captive – forced to Quebec City

• 1707 – Scotland joins England and becomes "Britain"

• King George’s War (1744 – 1748)

Most fighting takes place in Caribbean and Georgia

Between Spanish and English

French later join in and British capture part of Nova Scotia

"Seven Years War" is the name for the global conflict between France and England

"French and Indian War" is the name for the fighting just in North America (or the North American Theater of the Seven Years War)

5 Causes of French and Indian War

1. Disputed land between Appalachian Mts. And Mississippi River (the Ohio Country)

2. Both British and French want to control fur trade

3. Roman Catholic French V.S. Protestant English

4. Fishing Rights in New Foundland

5. British over-population

1663

35,000--French
58,000--English