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14995760713HuguenotsFrench Protestants influenced by John Calvin0
14995760714Edict of Nantes1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship.1
14995760715Coureurs de Bois(runners of the woods) French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America.2
14995760716VoyaguersFrench voyagers that traveled anywhere from Canada to the Midwest3
14995760717King William's War(1689-1697) Small war between French and English that had small battles fought in Northern New England.4
14995760718Queen Anne's WarSecond in a series of conflicts between the European powers for control of North America, fought between the English and French colonists in the North, and the English and Spanish in Florida. Under the peace treaty, the French ceded Acadia (Nova Scotia), Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay to Britain.5
14995760719War of Jenkin's EarSmall-scale clash between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and in the buffer colony, Georgia. It merged with the much larger War of Austrian Succession in 1742.6
14995760720King George's WarNorth American theater of Europe's War of Austrian Succession that once again pitted British colonists against their French counterparts in the North. The peace settlement did not involve any territorial realignment, leading to conflict between New England settlers and the British government.7
14995760721AcadiansFrench residents of Nova Scotia, many of whom were uprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south as Louisiana, where their descendants became known as "Cajuns."8
14995760722French and Indian War(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.9
14995760723Seven Year's War(1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions.10
14995760724Albany CongressIntercolonial congress summoned by the British government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French.11
14995760725RegularsA name that referred to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War.12
14995760726Battle of Quebec(1759) British victory over French forces on the outskirts of Quebec. The surrender of Quebec marked the beginning of the end of French rule in North America.13
14995760727Pontiac's RebellionA 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area14
14995760728Proclamation of 1763A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.15
14995760729Louis XIVThis French king ruled for the longest time ever in Europe. He issued several economic policies and costly wars. He was the prime example of absolutism in France.16
14995760730Samuel de ChamplainFrench explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)17
14995760731Edward BraddockA British commander during the French and Indian War. He attempted to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755. He was defeated by the French and the Indians. At this battle, Braddock was mortally wounded.18
14995760732William PittThe Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies, and this is why England won the war.19
14995760733James WolfeEnglish general, led troops up steep cliff to capture Quebec which marked the beginning on the end of the French/Indian War20
14995760734PontiacFamous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)21

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