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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608-1763 Flashcards

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87693315Compared with the English colonies, New France wasmore autocratically governed
87693316The expansion of New France occurred especiallyalong the paths of lakes and rivers
87693317Colonial Americans were unhappy after the peace treaty following the "War of Jenkins's Ear" becauseit gave the louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France
87693318The original cause of the French and Indian war wascompetition between French and English colonistis for land in the Ohio River Valley
87693319The French and Indian War eventually became part of the larger world conflict known as theSeven Years War
87693320Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create intercolonial unity at the Albany Congress resulted inrejection of the congress' proposal for colonial home rule by London and by the Individual colonies
87693321The British forces sufered early defeats in the French and Indian War under the overall command ofGeneral Braddock
87693322William Pitt's strategy in the assult on New France finallyy succeeded becausehe concentrated British forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal
87693323The decisive event in the French-British contest for North America wasthe British victory in the Battler of Quebec
87693324Among the factors that tended to pomote intercolonial untiy during the French and Indian War wascommon language and wartime experience
87693325The French and Indian War weakend interior Indian peoples like the Iroquois and Creeks byremoving their French and Spanish allies from canada and florida
87693326Pontiac's fierce attack on frontier outposts in 1763 had the effect ofconvincing the British to keep troops stationed in the colonies
87693327The British Proclamation of 1763angered colonists who thought that it deprived them of the fruits of victory
87693328The French and Indian War created conflict between the British and the American military becauseBritish officers treated the American colonial militia with contempt
87693329The effect on the colonistis of the French removal from North America wasto reduce the colonies reliance on Britain and increase their sense of independence
87693330HuguenotsFrench protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France
87693331Louis XIVAbsolute French monarch who reigned for seventy-two years
87693332BeaverAnimal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost
87693333JesuitsFrench Catholic religious order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians
87693334Coureurs de boisfar-running, high-living French fur trappers
87693335part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with spainear
87693336Louisbergstrategic French fortress conquered by New England settlers, handed back to the French, and finally conquered again by the British in 1759
87693337Ohio River ValleyInland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-speculating English colonists
87693338GermanyBloodiest European theater of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America
87693339Albany CongressUnification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly let to success by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry
87693340George WashingtonMilitary aide of British Gnereal Baddock and defender of the frontier after Braddock's defeat
87693341QuebecFortress bodly assualted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France
87693342MilitiaThe "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officer's contempt
87693343IndiansAllies of the French against the British, who continued to fight under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763
87693344Seven Years WarThe larger European struggle of which the French and Indian War was part
87693345Benjamin FranklinAdvocate of colonial unity at a 1754 meeting in upstate New York
87693346Proclamation of 1763British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion
87693347Acadians (Cajuns)French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British and shipped to Louisiana
87693348War of Austrian SuccessionConflict that started with the War of Jerkin's Ear and ended with the return of Louisbourg to France
87693349New OrleansStrategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi
87693350PontaicIndian leader whose frontier uprising caused the British to attempt to limit colonial expansion
87693351General BraddockBlundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early stages of their war
87693352Samuel de ChamplainThe Father of New France, who established a crucial alliance with the Huron Indians
87693353Plains of AbrahamSite of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New World empire also perished
87693354Fort DuquesneStrategic French stronghold; later renamed after a great British statesmen
87693355George WashingtonMilita commander whose frontier skirmish in Pennsylvania touched off a world war
87693356AlbanySite of a meeting that proposed greater unity and home rule among Britian's North American colonies
87693357Seven Years WarConflict that began with George Washington's skirmish in Ohio and ended with the loss of France's North American Empire
87693358Robert de la SalleFrench empire builder who explored the Mississippi Basin and named it after his monarch
87693359William PittSpendid British orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in North America

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