Chapter 6 Study Questions using the American Pageant 13th Edition textbook. For eleventh grade Advanced Placement United States History. Vidalia High School.
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| 879172758 | Why was France a latecomer to colonial settlement? | because of its foreign and domestic issues and wars. | |
| 879172759 | Who is the 'father of New France' and why is he called this? | Samuel de Champlain. He was the leading figure in settling Quebec. | |
| 879172760 | Why did New France grow so slowly? | Because of the issues france had with the native americans. landowners didnt have enough economic motive to come. protestant Huguenots were not allowed. and france favored its carribean colonies over its canadian ones | |
| 879172761 | Who were coureurs be bois and voyageurs and what did they do? | french fur trappers. they traveled around america in search of furs (mainly beavers) to sell | |
| 879172762 | What was the purpose of the French settlements in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys? | was to stop and further competition from developing any further empire and to keep and eye on their enemies | |
| 879172763 | How were the early wars with France fought? | with a type of primitive guerillia warfare | |
| 879172764 | Why were the colonist upset after king george's war? | because the people in the new world had given louisbourg back to the french even though the NEs had won the war | |
| 879172765 | How did the French and Indian war begin? | because of a dispute over the ohio river valley | |
| 879172766 | Why was Franklin's plan for colonial union presented at the Albany Congress (Albany Plan of Union) not accepted by the colonial legislature? | because the colonists though that is didnt offer enough independence and british officials thought it offered too much | |
| 879172767 | Why is Braddock's defeat important? | because it left the indians an easy victory against the british since it left the whole frontier from Pennsylvania to N Carolina practically naked | |
| 879172768 | How did William Pitt change the course of the war? | because he led british to their first victory of 1758 which built them back up emotionally. Then he chose a young officer James Wolfe to lead in a battle against the french which resulted in a british victory | |
| 879172769 | How did the French and INdian war end? | the french were not reinforcing like they should have and their army was thinning and thinning and then a series of british attacks won the british the war | |
| 879172770 | What were the effects of the french and indian war on colonial ideas and beliefs? | colonial self esteem boosted but ruined the idea of british invincibility | |
| 879172771 | What were the terms of the treaty of paris in 1763? | spanish got land west of mississippi and new orleans and british got quebec and ohio river valley | |
| 879172772 | How did the french and indian war create a situation that would eventually lead to the American Revolution? | by eliminating the colonists enemies (meaning the french) so they colonists were able to expand and spread some from the british. it also put britian in a huge debt so they began taxing the heck out of the colonists and they got angry |
