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

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