14995760713 | Huguenots | French Protestants influenced by John Calvin | 0 | |
14995760714 | Edict of Nantes | 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship. | 1 | |
14995760715 | Coureurs 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 | |
14995760716 | Voyaguers | French voyagers that traveled anywhere from Canada to the Midwest | 3 | |
14995760717 | King William's War | (1689-1697) Small war between French and English that had small battles fought in Northern New England. | 4 | |
14995760718 | Queen Anne's War | Second 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 | |
14995760719 | War of Jenkin's Ear | Small-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 | |
14995760720 | King George's War | North 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 | |
14995760721 | Acadians | French 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 | |
14995760722 | French 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 | |
14995760723 | Seven 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 | |
14995760724 | Albany Congress | Intercolonial congress summoned by the British government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French. | 11 | |
14995760725 | Regulars | A name that referred to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War. | 12 | |
14995760726 | Battle 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 | |
14995760727 | Pontiac's Rebellion | A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area | 14 | |
14995760728 | Proclamation of 1763 | A 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 | |
14995760729 | Louis XIV | This 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 | |
14995760730 | Samuel de Champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) | 17 | |
14995760731 | Edward Braddock | A 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 | |
14995760732 | William Pitt | The 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 | |
14995760733 | James Wolfe | English general, led troops up steep cliff to capture Quebec which marked the beginning on the end of the French/Indian War | 20 | |
14995760734 | Pontiac | Famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769) | 21 |
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