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Quest of a Hemisph 7
Quest of a Hemisphere CH 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| French or British? got along better with the Indians. Why? | The French who who bought furs, provided weapons, tobacco , brandy to the Indians and then left. The British destroyed the animal breeding grounds, planted crops, built houses, and stayed. |
| Both French and British were trying to win __________ during "King George's war" & The French and Indian War | Indian allies |
| Key events of the campaign in French and Indian War | Alliance of British with Iroquois Indians, British capture of multiple forts and Quebec |
| Capture of Fort Louisburg | Closed the St. Lawrence River to French troops & supplies |
| Capture of Fort Frontenac | Cut off the water route to the Mississippi River |
| Capture of Fort Duquesne | Gave British control of the Ohio Valley |
| How did the Treaty of Paris benefit the British? | Great Britain gained all of the French lands east of the Mississippi River except new Orleans & a few fishing islands |
| Why did France lose to Britain ? | Britain had sea power. France did not. The British colonies had 20 times more people as the French colonies. British colonists were self reliant & would take action w/out waiting for orders from Britain. |
| George Washington | Major of Virginia militia. Delivered letter telling French to vacate a French fort per the Lancaster Treaty. |
| General Edward Braddock | British general in charge of building a road to Fort Duquesne. This road led future colonists to inland waterways w/out having to cross the mountains. |
| James Wolfe | British commander at Battle for Quebec |
| Louis Joseph de Montcalm | French commander of Quebec |
| Mohawks, Oneidas ,Onondagas, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora | 6 Indian nations of the Iroquois Confederacy |
| Lancaster Treaty | Secured Indian land for settlement & a guarantee that the Iroquois would not fight against British colonists. |
| Treaty of Paris | 1763, This ended the French and Indian War & granted french land east of Mississippi to the British. |
| Albany Congress | 1754, Conference where Ben Franklin proposed a union of the British colonies of N. America for security and defense. |
| cabin law | Gave any man a title to 400 acres if he built a log house & planted 1 acre of corn on the land. |
| squatters | a settler with no legal title to the land occupied |
| vermilion | red pigment used as face paint by the Indians |
| confederacy | a league or alliance |
| palisade | a fence of wooden stakes fixed in the ground & used for defense |
| Cumberland Gap | a natural opening within the Appalachian Mountains. 1st gateway to the west |
| Appalachian Mountains | mountain range extending from Canada to Alabama |
| Allegheny River | 325 mile long headwater stream of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania & New York |
| Monongahela River | 130 long river in West Virginia & Pennsylvania |
| Williamsburg | capital of the Virginia Colony from 1699 to 1780 |
| Fort Duquesne | Established by the French in 1754 where the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers come together to form the Ohio River. |
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