233174602 | What three European nations competed for power in the Americas in the late 1600s? | England, France, and Spain | |
233174603 | Who explored the St. Lawrence, established a French colony at Quebec, and became known as the "Father of New France"? | Samuel Champlain | |
233174604 | What was the most valuable resource of New France? | Beaver | |
233174605 | What French explorer founded Detroit? | Antoine Cadillac | |
233174606 | What French explorer sailed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico? He named the area Louisiana after the French king, Louis XIV. | Robert de La Salle | |
233174607 | Place the following in the correct chronological order --- Queen Anne's War, King George's War, the Seven Year's War, and King William's War. | King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, the Seven Year's War. | |
233174608 | Explain the British policy of "salutary neglect" toward its American colonies. | The British policy of allowing the American colonies to develop without British interference as long as Great Britain was gaining economically. | |
233174609 | What angered New Englanders about the 1748 treaty that ended King George's War? | New England militiamen had attacked and captured Fort Louisbourg (Cape Breton Island) independently of the British. The British then gave the fort back to the French at the end of the war. This made the New Englanders feel their sacrifices during the war had been pointless. | |
233174610 | What area in America was the scene of the primary fighting between the British and French forces? | the Ohio Valley | |
233174611 | What Virginian did the British send into the disputed territoy to determine the motives and activities of the French? | George Washington | |
233174612 | What was the name of the hurriedly constructed fort built by the Virginians for defense against the French in 1754? | Fort Necessity | |
233174613 | What was the Seven Years War called in the british American colonies? | the French and Indian War | |
233174614 | Which of the four wars for empire between the British and the French actually began in the Americas and then spread to the European mainland and beyond? | the Seven Year's War 9of the French and Indian War) | |
233174615 | What was the dual purpose of the 1754 Albany Conference? | 1. Convince the Iroquois Indians to fight alongside the British against the French. 2. To convince all of the American colonies to show greater unity in fighting the French. | |
233174616 | Who designed the famous "Join or Die" cartoon? | Benjamin "I know I am the greatest' Franklin | |
233174617 | In 1755 the British sent in troops (british regulars and colonial militiamen) to the Ohio Valley? What British officer commanded these troops and what Virginia Lt. Colonel commanded the colonial forces? | British General - William Braddock American Colonial Commander - George Washington | |
233174618 | What were the two French strongholds in Canada? | Quebec and Montreal | |
233174619 | Name the British Prime Minister who turned the French and Indian War around in favor of the British | William Pitt | |
233174620 | Name three provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ended the Seven Year's War? | 1. France was removed as a power from North America. 2. France gave Louisiana to Spain. 3. Spain gave Florida to the British. | |
233174621 | Name an important result of the French and Indian War. | For the Americans, the myth of British invincibility was shattered. | |
233174622 | Name one cause of colonial disunity at the end of the French and Indian War. | i.e. enormous distances, geographical barriers, conflicting resourves, nationalities, differing types of colonial governments, boundry disputes, resentment of backcountry "pioneers" towards the eastern elites. | |
233174623 | Name the Native American who lead several tribes in an unsuccessful revolt against the whites who were encroaching on Indian lands in the Ohio Valley? | Pontiac | |
233174624 | What did the Proclamation of 1763 state? | The colonists were forbided to cross the Appalachian Mountains and settle western lands. | |
233174625 | What was King George's War also called? | The War of Jenkin's Ear | |
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