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French n Indian War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where was slavery legal? | southern colonies |
| What was the Middle passage like? | uncomfortable, cruel living, easy to catch disease, bunk beds, danced on the deck for excercise |
| What was the slave auction like? | checked teeth and how they walked |
| What types of work did slaves do? | picked crops, butlers, maids, carriage drivers, blacksmiths |
| Slave and literacy | slaves weren't allowed to learn to read or write |
| role of cotton gin towards slavery | made slavery more popular (opposite of the purpose) |
| What were the French and British Fighting over? | territory in north america |
| what year did the war start? | 1754-1763 |
| Albany plan | created because all colonies wanted their own general goverment |
| Fort Duquesne | fort where George Washington was sent to |
| Treaty of Paris | british owned land east of Mississippi and Spanish got land to the west, french had little land- ended the war |
| British/Indian relations | little/no respect |
| French/Indian relation | respectful |
| the fiddler | broken slave, got special treatment |
| Kunta Kinte | not broken, kept running away, wouldn't except his new name |
| John reynolds | owner of Kunta Kinte |
| Iroquois | one of the tribes that sided with the British |
| William Pitt | english politician, took over planning for the war, rises to power in Great Britian |
| George Washington | young general who was sent to french fort to tell them to get off British territory |
| James Wolfe | captured Quibec |
| Seven Year War | what the war was called in Europe, fought over territory in North America, British won |
| Iroquois Confedarcy | group of native Americans, if you fought one you fought them all |
| Proclamation of 1763 | England split the land they owned- lane west of the appalachians went to the native americans, land to the east was for the colonists |
| Battle of Quebec | james wolfe lead the british, british won and conquered Quebec |
| Plantation | large estate where crops are grown |
| Beaver | fur was valuable |
| cotton gin | machine used to separate cotton seeds from the cotton |
| ohio valley | thick forests and a lot of beavers |
| Guerilla Warfare | relys on element of surprise, Native Americans used this method |
| Linear Warfare | fighting in a line, professional, colonists and British used this method |
| Fasces | axe bundled on wood- signifies unity and strenghth |