Flashcards for Chapter 6. It may be a bit too thorough since some of the questions are on some insignificant occurrences but there are around 5 questions from each section of the chapter.
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| 1709101699 | Protestant Huguenots | French Protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France. | 0 | |
| 1709101700 | King Louis XIV | Absolute French monarch who reigned for seventy-two years. | 1 | |
| 1709101701 | Beaver | Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost. | 2 | |
| 1709101702 | Jesuits | French Catholic missionary order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians. | 3 | |
| 1709101703 | Coureurs de Bois | Far-running, high-living French fur trappers | 4 | |
| 1709101704 | Jenkin's Ear | Part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with Spain. | 5 | |
| 1709101705 | Fortress Louisburg | Strategic French fortress conquered by New England settlers, handed back to the French, and finally conquered again by the British in 1759. | 6 | |
| 1709101706 | Ohio River Valley | Inland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-speculating English colonists. | 7 | |
| 1709101707 | Germany | Bloodiest European threater of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America. | 8 | |
| 1709101708 | Albany Congress | Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly inspired to success by eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry. | 9 | |
| 1709101709 | George Washington | Military aide of British General Braddock and defender of the frontier after Braddock's defeat. | 10 | |
| 1709101710 | Quebec | Fortress boldly assaulted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France. | 11 | |
| 1709101711 | minute men | The "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officers' contempt. | 12 | |
| 1709101712 | Ottawa | Allies of the French against the British, who continued to fight under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763. | 13 | |
| 1709101713 | 7 Years War | The larger European struggle of which the French and Indian War was part. | 14 | |
| 1709101714 | Samuel de Champlain | The Father of New France, who established a fateful alliance with the Huron Indians. | 15 | |
| 1709101715 | Robert de la Salle | French empire builder who explored the Mississippi basin and named it after his monarch. | 16 | |
| 1709101717 | War of Austrian Succession | Conflict that started with the War of Jenkins Ear and ended with return of Louisburg to France. | 17 | |
| 1709101718 | Fort Duquesne | Strategic French stronghold, later renamed after a great British statesman. | 18 | |
| 1709101719 | George Washington | Militia commander whose frontier skirmish touched off a World War | 19 | |
| 1709101720 | Benjamin Franklin | Advocate of colonial unity at the unsuccessful Albany Congress. | 20 | |
| 1709101721 | General Braddock | Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early phase of the war. | 21 | |
| 1709101722 | William Pitt | Splendid British political orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in the North America. | 22 | |
| 1709101723 | Plains of Abraham | Site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New world empire also perished | 23 | |
| 1709101724 | Seven Years' War | Conflict that, in Europe, pitted France against Britain's ally Frederick the Great of Prussia. | 24 | |
| 1709101725 | Pontiac | Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused British to attempt to limit colonial frontier expansion. | 25 | |
| 1709101726 | Proclamation of 1763 | British Document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion. | 26 | |
| 1709101727 | New Orleans | Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi River. | 27 | |
| 1709101728 | Acadians (Cajuns) | French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British & shipped to Louisiana | 28 | |
| 1719460426 | Edict of Nantes | French Protestants were granted toleration by the | 29 | |
| 1719460427 | 1608 | Quebec established in | 30 | |
| 1719460428 | King William's War and Queen Anne's War | The English colonists fought the French coureurs de bois and their Indian allies. | 31 | |
| 1719460429 | Fort Necessity | Washington's hastily constructed Fort | 32 | |
| 1719460430 | Battle of Quebec | 1759 | 33 | |
| 1719460431 | Peace Treaty at Paris | 1763 | 34 |
