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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| 34152372 | Protestant Huguenots | French Protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France. | 0 | |
| 34152373 | King Louis XIV | Absolute French monarch who reigned for seventy-two years. | 1 | |
| 34152374 | Beaver | Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost. | 2 | |
| 34152375 | Jesuits | French Catholic missionary order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians. | 3 | |
| 34152376 | Coureurs de Bois | Far-running, high-living French fur trappers | 4 | |
| 34152377 | Jenkin's Ear | Part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with Spain. | 5 | |
| 34152378 | 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 | |
| 34152379 | Port Royal | Inland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-speculating English colonists. | 7 | |
| 34152380 | Germany | Bloodiest European threater of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America. | 8 | |
| 34152381 | Albany Congress | Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly inspired to success by eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry. | 9 | |
| 34152382 | George Washington | Military aide of British General Braddock and defender of the frontier after Braddock's defeat. | 10 | |
| 34152383 | The Plains of Abraham | Fortress boldly assaulted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France. | 11 | |
| 34152384 | Roger's Rangers | The "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officers' contempt. | 12 | |
| 34152385 | Ottawa | Allies of the French against the British, who continued to fight under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763. | 13 | |
| 34152386 | Conquest | The larger European struggle of which the French and Indian War was part. | 14 | |
| 34152387 | Samuel de Champlain | The Father of New France, who established a fateful alliance with the Huron Indians. | 15 | |
| 34152388 | Robert de la Salle | French empire builder who explored the Mississippi basin and named it after his monarch. | 16 | |
| 34152389 | Albany | Document that ended the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War) and awarded Acadia to Britain | 17 | |
| 34152390 | War of Austrian Succession | Conflict that started with the War of Jenkins Ear and ended with return of Louisburg to France. | 18 | |
| 34152391 | Fort Duquesne | Strategic French stronghold, later renamed after a great British statesman. | 19 | |
| 34152392 | George Washington | Militia commander whose frontier skirmish touched off a World War | 20 | |
| 34152393 | Benjamin Franklin | Advocate of colonial unity at the unsuccessful Albany Congress. | 21 | |
| 34152394 | General Braddock | Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early phase of the war. | 22 | |
| 34152395 | William Pitt | Splendid British political orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in the North America. | 23 | |
| 34152396 | Plains of Abraham | Site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New world empire also perished | 24 | |
| 34152397 | Seven Years' War | Conflict that, in Europe, pitted France against Britain's ally Frederick the Great of Prussia. | 25 | |
| 34152398 | Pontiac | Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused British to attempt to limit colonial frontier expansion. | 26 | |
| 34152399 | Proclamation of 1763 | British Document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion. | 27 | |
| 34152400 | New Orleans | Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi River. | 28 | |
| 34152401 | Acadians (Cajuns) | French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British & shipped to Louisiana | 29 |
