APUSH Chapter 7
952443421 | What was America's involvement in previous world wars? | Americans were unable to stay out of any world wars | 1 | |
952443422 | What set the stage for America's independence? | The Seven Years' War, or the French and Indian War | 2 | |
952443423 | What countries were latecomers in the scramble for New World real estate? | Holland, England, and France | 3 | |
952443424 | What two groups clashed through foreign wars and domestic strife in the 1500s? | The Roman Catholics and the Protestant Huguenots | 4 | |
952443425 | What was the day in 1572 when ten thousand Huguenots were butchered? | St. Bartholomew's Day | 5 | |
952443426 | What was the Edict of Nantes? | issued by the crown, granted limited toleration to French Protestants | 6 | |
952443427 | Who was King Louis XIV? | Ruler of France as it blossomed into mighty, feared nation, took deep interest in overseas colonies | 7 | |
952443428 | What was the first permanent French settlement in the New World? | Quebec | 8 | |
952443429 | Who was Samuel de Champlain? | Soldier and explorer who led Quebec, was known as the "Father of New France" | 9 | |
952443430 | Who did Samuel de Champlain establish relations with in Quebec? | The Huron Indian tribes | 10 | |
952443431 | Who were the foes of the Huron Indians? | The Iroquois tribes of the upper New York area | 11 | |
952443432 | What feud worked against the favor of the French? | The French and the Iroquois after they terrified the tribes in war alongside the Hurons, as they prevented the penetration of the Ohio Valley, and served as allies of the British | 12 | |
952443433 | Who were the allies of the Iroquois? | The British and colonists | 13 | |
952443434 | What royal regime was completely autocratic? | The government of New France after it fell under the control of the king | 14 | |
952443435 | What was the population in Catholic New France like? | It grew at a increasing pace | 15 | |
952443436 | How many whites inhabited New France as laet is 1750? | Sixty thousand | 16 | |
952443437 | Who had little motive to move from New France? | Landowning French peasants | 17 | |
952443438 | Who were denied refuge in New France? | The Huguenots, despite having a religious motive to migrate | 18 | |
952443439 | Which colonies did the French government favor and why? | The Caribbean islands, as they were rich in sugar and rum | 19 | |
952443440 | What valuable resource did New France contain? | The beaver | 20 | |
952443441 | Where were French fur-trappers ranged and why? | Over the woods and waterways of North America, in pursuit of the beaver | 21 | |
952443442 | What places did the coureurs de bois (runners of the woods) name? | Baton Rouge (red stick), Terre Haute (high land), Des Moines (some monks), and Grand Teton (big breast) | 22 | |
952443443 | Who recruited the Indians into the fur business? | The French voyageurs | 23 | |
952443444 | What were the negative effects of recruiting Indians into the fur business? | Disease and alcohol took control over many Indians, and the slaughtering of beaver violated religious beliefs | 24 | |
952443445 | What early problem demonstrated the shattering effect that contract with the Europeans had on Indian way of life? | The recruiting of Indians into fur business, and the slaughtering of beaver | 25 | |
952443446 | What did the French Catholic missionaries aim to do? | Save the Indians for Christ and from the fur-trappers | 26 | |
952443447 | What important roles did the Jesuits play? | Explorers and geographers | 27 | |
952443448 | Who was Antoine Cadillac and what territory did he find? | A french explorer who founded Detroit to prevent English settlers from pushing through to the Ohio Valley | 28 | |
952443449 | Who was Robert de Salle? | Explorer who sailed down the Mississippi to check for Spanish settlements, and named the interior basin Louisiana | 29 | |
952443450 | Why didn't de Salle colonize the Gulf? | Three years after his discovery, he sailed back but could not find the Mississippi delta, and was later murdered after landing in Spanish Texas | 30 | |
952443451 | Who did the French want to block from the Gulf of Mexico? | The Spanish | 31 | |
952443452 | What were two wars that served as the earliest known contests among the European powers for control of North America? | King William's War and Queen Anne's War | 32 | |
952443453 | Who mainly battled in King William and Queen Anne's wars? | The British colonists and the French coureurs de bois and the Indian allies they could recruit | 33 | |
952443454 | What kind of warfare was waged during King William and Queen Anne's wars, and why? | Guerrilla warfare, as France nor Britain considered America worth the commitment of large detachments of regular troops | 34 | |
952443455 | What did Schenectady, New York, and Deerfield, Massachusetts have in common during the King and Queen's wars? | Were both colonial frontiers that were sites of bloody violence from the Indian allies of the French | 35 | |
952443456 | What single victory did British colonists score during the King and Queen's wars? | The seizing of the stronghold of Port Royal in Acadia | 36 | |
952443457 | What was the Treaty of Utrecht? | treaty that ended Queen Anne's War, and gave Acadia, Newfoundland, and the Hudson Bay to the British, as well as trading rights in Spanish America, showed how badly France and its Spanish ally had been beaten | 37 | |
952443458 | What was the War of Jenkin's Ear? | Started when British captain Jenkins had his ear sliced off by a Spanish commander, confined to the Caribbean Sea and the buffer colony of Georgia, fought Spanish to a standstill | 38 | |
952443459 | Who was James Olgethorpe? | Philanthropist-soldier who fought his Spanish foe to a standstill during the War of Jenkin's Ear | 39 | |
952443460 | What did the War of Jenkin's Ear lead to? | King George's War | 40 | |
952443461 | Who was France allied with during King George's War? | Spain | 41 | |
952443462 | What fortress did the New Englanders capture with help from the British fleet? | Louisbourg, that commanded the approaches to the St. Lawerence River | 42 | |
952443463 | What did the peace treaty of 1748 decide, and why were the colonists angered? | It returned Louisburg to the French in exchange for Madras in India, colonists were angered because they needed Louisburg for safety | 43 | |
952443464 | What was the primary cause of feud between the French and the British in the New World? | The Ohio Valley | 44 | |
952443465 | Where was Fort Duquesne located? | At the pivotal point where the Monongahela and the Allegheny Rivers join to form the Ohio River, later Pittsburgh | 45 | |
952443466 | Why was George Washington sent by the governor? | To direct French to leave the territory so colonists could continue their westward push and settlement | 46 | |
952443467 | What happened at Fort Necessity? | Washington and his troops were forced to surrender by the French | 47 | |
952443468 | What did British authorities do in Nova Soctia? | Uproot four thousand French Acadians, and deport them as far south as Louisiana | 48 | |
952443469 | What are the French-speaking Acadians called now, and number how many? | Cajuns, and nearly a million | 49 | |
952443470 | Where had the first three Anglo-French wars started compared to the fourth? | The first three started in Europe, but the last, the French and Indian War, started in America | 50 | |
952443471 | Where was the French and Indian War fought? | America, Europe, the West Indies, the Philippines, in Africa, and on the ocean | 51 | |
952443472 | What were the principal adversaries in Europe? | Britain and Prussia against France, Spain, Austria, and Russia | 52 | |
952443473 | Who was Frederick the Great? | Repelled the French, Austrian, and Russian armies despite being outnumbered, was subsidized with gold as he could not be reinforced with effective troops by the government in London | 53 | |
952443474 | Why were the colonists lucky the French wasted so much strength in the European bloodbath? | They were unable to throw an adequate force into the New World as their army was focused in Europe, allowed for British victory in North America | 54 | |
952443475 | What was the purpose at the meeting in Albany, and the Albany Plan of Union? | To achieve greater colonial unity and power, thus enhancing the cmoon defense against France | 55 | |
952443476 | Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette? | Benjamin Franklin | 56 | |
952443477 | What famous cartoon was shown in the Pennsylvania Gazette? | Join, or Die snake | 57 | |
952443478 | Who was the leading spirit at the Albany Congress? | Benjamin Franklin | 58 | |
952443479 | Who rejected the Albany Plan of Union? | The individual colonies as it did not give enough independence, and the London regime because it seemed to give too much | 59 | |
952443480 | Who would President-General be chosen by? | The king | 60 | |
952443481 | Who would the Grand Council be chosen by? | Colonial legislatures | 61 | |
952443482 | What would the Union have the power to do? | Raise armies, levy taxes, manage pubic lands, make laws for the general good, protection relations with Indians | 62 | |
952443483 | Who was General Braddock? | British general who set out with two thousand men to capture Fort Duquesne, but encountered a French and Indian army miles from the fort, despite Washington's aid suffered loss and wounds | 63 | |
952443484 | Who was William Pitt? | became prime minister, increased commitment to win war in America | 64 | |
952443485 | Why did Pitt soft-pedal assaults on the French West Indies? | He wanted to stop these battles that were bleeding away most of British strength, and concentrate on the vitals of Canada | 65 | |
952443486 | Who did Pitt pick to lead the war in the New World? | New, energetic leaders to bypass incompetent and cautious old generals | 66 | |
952443487 | What was the first powerful expedition dispatched by Pitt? | Against Louisbourg, fell to Britain, and became the first significant British victory of the entire war | 67 | |
952443488 | Who did Pitt choose for the expedition against Quebec? | James Wolfe, who attacked through the St. Lawrence River and behind Quebec on the Plains of Abraham | 68 | |
952443489 | Who was the French commander that fell alongside James Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec? | Marquis de Montcalm | 69 | |
952443490 | What happened during the Battle of Montreal? | Montreal fell to the British after they were attacked via the Hudson River and Lake Champlain, signaled the end of French presence in North America | 70 | |
952443491 | What was the Treaty of Paris? | Ended the French and Indian War, France gave England all of Canada and lands east of the Mississippi to the Appalachian Mountains, lost trading posts in Indian and Senegal | 71 | |
952443492 | What did Spain give Florida to Britain in exchange for? | Cuba | 72 | |
952443493 | Why did Pitt want Canada? | To help build his empire | 73 | |
952443494 | What did Britain emerge as after the French and Indian War? | The leading naval power of the world | 74 | |
952443495 | What the the colonists gain from the French and Indian War? | Combat experience, confidence, and a sense of nationality through a common language and wartime | 75 | |
952443496 | What myth did the French and Indian War shatter in regards to the colonists view of the British? | British invincibility | 76 | |
952443497 | What threats were eliminated as a result of the French and Indian War? | The French presence, as well as the threat of the Spanish and Indians | 77 | |
952443498 | Why did the Indians lose their European ally? | To limit British power and stop American expansion | 78 | |
952443499 | What territories did Britain control after the French and Indian War? | Canada, American colonies, Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and Florida | 79 | |
952443500 | Where were the 200,000 Indians located? | West of the Appalachian Mountains | 80 | |
952443501 | What control did the Indians prefer, regarding to North America? | The French, feared British control | 81 | |
952443502 | Who was Neolin? | Delaware prophet that encouraged Indians to resist English encroachment on their land | 82 | |
952443503 | Why did Pontiac drive a violent campaign? | In attempt to drive the British out of the Ohio country | 83 | |
952443504 | What was the British response to their defeat against Pontiac? | Sent blankets infested with smallpox to the Indians, and sent 10,000 troops to defend the colonists | 84 | |
952443505 | What was the Proclamation of 1763? | established by the London government, prohibited settlement in the area beyond the Appalachians | 85 | |
952443506 | Why did the London government establish the Proclamation of 1763? | To protect Indian relations by prohibiting settlement on their lands, and preventing another bloody uprising | 86 | |
952443507 | Why were the colonists angered? | They believed the British were trying to oppress them, and take away the recent purchase of the war | 87 |