87693315 | Compared with the English colonies, New France was | more autocratically governed | |
87693316 | The expansion of New France occurred especially | along the paths of lakes and rivers | |
87693317 | Colonial Americans were unhappy after the peace treaty following the "War of Jenkins's Ear" because | it gave the louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France | |
87693318 | The original cause of the French and Indian war was | competition between French and English colonistis for land in the Ohio River Valley | |
87693319 | The French and Indian War eventually became part of the larger world conflict known as the | Seven Years War | |
87693320 | Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create intercolonial unity at the Albany Congress resulted in | rejection of the congress' proposal for colonial home rule by London and by the Individual colonies | |
87693321 | The British forces sufered early defeats in the French and Indian War under the overall command of | General Braddock | |
87693322 | William Pitt's strategy in the assult on New France finallyy succeeded because | he concentrated British forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal | |
87693323 | The decisive event in the French-British contest for North America was | the British victory in the Battler of Quebec | |
87693324 | Among the factors that tended to pomote intercolonial untiy during the French and Indian War was | common language and wartime experience | |
87693325 | The French and Indian War weakend interior Indian peoples like the Iroquois and Creeks by | removing their French and Spanish allies from canada and florida | |
87693326 | Pontiac's fierce attack on frontier outposts in 1763 had the effect of | convincing the British to keep troops stationed in the colonies | |
87693327 | The British Proclamation of 1763 | angered colonists who thought that it deprived them of the fruits of victory | |
87693328 | The French and Indian War created conflict between the British and the American military because | British officers treated the American colonial militia with contempt | |
87693329 | The effect on the colonistis of the French removal from North America was | to reduce the colonies reliance on Britain and increase their sense of independence | |
87693330 | Huguenots | French protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France | |
87693331 | Louis XIV | Absolute French monarch who reigned for seventy-two years | |
87693332 | Beaver | Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost | |
87693333 | Jesuits | French Catholic religious order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians | |
87693334 | Coureurs de bois | far-running, high-living French fur trappers | |
87693335 | part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with spain | ear | |
87693336 | Louisberg | strategic French fortress conquered by New England settlers, handed back to the French, and finally conquered again by the British in 1759 | |
87693337 | Ohio River Valley | Inland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-speculating English colonists | |
87693338 | Germany | Bloodiest European theater of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America | |
87693339 | Albany Congress | Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly let to success by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry | |
87693340 | George Washington | Military aide of British Gnereal Baddock and defender of the frontier after Braddock's defeat | |
87693341 | Quebec | Fortress bodly assualted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France | |
87693342 | Militia | The "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officer's contempt | |
87693343 | Indians | Allies of the French against the British, who continued to fight under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763 | |
87693344 | Seven Years War | The larger European struggle of which the French and Indian War was part | |
87693345 | Benjamin Franklin | Advocate of colonial unity at a 1754 meeting in upstate New York | |
87693346 | Proclamation of 1763 | British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion | |
87693347 | Acadians (Cajuns) | French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British and shipped to Louisiana | |
87693348 | War of Austrian Succession | Conflict that started with the War of Jerkin's Ear and ended with the return of Louisbourg to France | |
87693349 | New Orleans | Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi | |
87693350 | Pontaic | Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused the British to attempt to limit colonial expansion | |
87693351 | General Braddock | Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early stages of their war | |
87693352 | Samuel de Champlain | The Father of New France, who established a crucial alliance with the Huron Indians | |
87693353 | Plains of Abraham | Site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New World empire also perished | |
87693354 | Fort Duquesne | Strategic French stronghold; later renamed after a great British statesmen | |
87693355 | George Washington | Milita commander whose frontier skirmish in Pennsylvania touched off a world war | |
87693356 | Albany | Site of a meeting that proposed greater unity and home rule among Britian's North American colonies | |
87693357 | Seven Years War | Conflict that began with George Washington's skirmish in Ohio and ended with the loss of France's North American Empire | |
87693358 | Robert de la Salle | French empire builder who explored the Mississippi Basin and named it after his monarch | |
87693359 | William Pitt | Spendid British orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in North America |
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608-1763 Flashcards
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