Chapter 6: The Duel for North America
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| the Father of New France, who established a crucial alliance with the Huron Indians | ||
| French empire builder who explored the Mississippi Basin and named it after his monarch | ||
| site of a meeting that proposed greater unity and home rule among Britain's North American colonies | ||
| conflict that started with the War of Jenkin's Ear and ended with the return of Louisbourg to France | ||
| strategic French stronghold; later renamed after a great British statesman | ||
| militia commander whose frontier skirmish in Pennsylvainia touched off a world war | ||
| advocate of colonial unity at a 1754 meeting in Upstate New York | ||
| blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early stages of their war | ||
| splendid British orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in North America | ||
| site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New World empire also perished | ||
| conflict that begun with George Washington's skirmish in Ohio and ended with the loss of France's North American empire | ||
| Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused the British to attempt to limit colonial expansion | ||
| British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion | ||
| strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi | ||
| French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British and shipped to Louisiana | ||
| French Protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France | ||
| absolute French monarch who reigned for 72 years | ||
| animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost | ||
| French Catholic religious order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians | ||
| far-running, high-living French fur trappers | ||
| part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with Spain | ||
| strategic French fortress conquered by New England settlers, handed back to the French, and finally conquered again by the British in 1759 | ||
| inland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-specualting English colonists | ||
| bloodiest European theater of the Seven Years' War, where Fredrick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America | ||
| unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly led to success by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry | ||
| fortress boldy assulted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France | ||
| the buckskin colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officers' contempt | ||
| allies of the French against the British, who continued to fight under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763 | ||
| more autocratically governed | ||
| along the paths of lakes and rivers | ||
| it gave the Loisbourg fortress they had captured back to France | ||
| competition between French and English colonists for land in the Ohio River Valley | ||
| the Seven Years' War | ||
| rejection of the congress's proposal for colonial home rule both by London and by the individual colonies | ||
| General Braddock | ||
| he concentrated British forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal | ||
| the British victory in the Battle of Quebec | ||
| common language and wartime experience | ||
| removing their French and Spanish allies from Canada and Florida | ||
| convincing the British to keep troops stationed in the colonies | ||
| angered colonists who thought that it deprived them of the fruits of victory | ||
| British officers treated the American colonial militia with contempt | ||
| to reduce the colonies' reliance on Britain and increase their sense of independence |