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History Chapter5
wars
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| claimed the region of Louisiana in 1682 | Robert LaSalle |
| Reasons why France was a serious threat | Reasons why France was a serious threat, strong Indian alliances, frontier was vulnerable, American colonies failed to unite |
| King Williams War (1689-1697) | French and Indians inflicted damage and upon English settlers, French continued building forts along the mississippi and ST. Lawrence rivers |
| Queen Anne's War ( 1702-1713) | France's Indian allies attacked New England settlements and English responded by raiding Canadian villages |
| Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) | England won a series of decisive victories, France lost control of most of eastern Canada |
| King George's War (1744-1748) | A truce was declared in Europe in 1748 and fighting ended |
| King George's War (1744-1748) | Conflict erupted again in 1754 and settled old problems but also created new ones |
| French and Indian War | Began in 1754 |
| French and Indian War | was called the Seven Years war after it spread to Europe |
| French and Indian War | began in Western Pennsylvania with a small incident involving George Washington |
| The Spark | Washington and his troops surprised a small group of French soldiers and defeated them |
| Fort Duquesne | French and Indian Warriors waiting here |
| Fort Necessity | Washington retreated and built this fort |
| French and Indian war | Washington surrendered |
| French Strengths | better relations with Indians, better understanding of guerrilla warfare, benefited from lack of unity among British colonies |
| British Strengths | outnumbered the French 20-21, controlled the waterways, had significant material investments in the colonies |
| Albany Plan | proposed by Benjamin Franklin which was for centralized colonel rule including a president chosen by the king= but this was rejected |
| General Edward Braddock | was sent to capture Fort Duquesne-french and indians hid in the trees and bushes and poured deadly fire - braddock was shot |
| Montcalm | Assigned by the french to command their forces in America-engineered a series of defeats on the British |
| William Pitt | became the leader of the British govt. , prussia beared the brunt of the fighting in Europe, replaced old commanders with young energetic officers |
| General James Wolfe | had tremendous military talents, was told to attack Quebec, |
| Fort Duequense | was renamed Fort Pitt after captured by English troops, now is modern Pittsburgh |
| Battle of Quebec | 1759 two great commanders of the war Montcalm and Wolfe fought this battle-brief but deadly battle both commanders died and British wona great victory |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | drastically changed the geography of North America- French surrendered all its Canadian and American lands |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | Spain surrendered Florida to British but they obtained French lands west of Mississippi |
| Plains of Abraham | site of the Battle of Quebec |
| Wolfe | general who won Battle of Quebec |
| Louisiana | vast region claimed by LaSalle for France |
| Boston Massacre | the first blood revolution |
| French and Indian | was the war that ended in 1763 |
| Montcalm | French commander during the French and Indian War |
| Townshend | was "Acts" that provoked the colonists to anger |
| Grenville | British prime minister intent on raising moneu |
| Quebec | French Canadian Capital |
| Albany | site of a congress promoting colonial unity |
| Proclamation Line | prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachain Mountains |
| France | England's biggest rival in North America |
| Boycott | refusal to buy goods |
| Purse | important power held by colonial assemblies |
| Benjamin Franklin | proposed the Albany plan |
| Sugar Act | taxed along with molasses and coffee |
| Quartering Act | law requiring colonists to feed and house the British soldiers |
| Treaty of Paris | 1763 treaty that changed the geography of North America |
| Samuel Adams | sons of liberty leader |
| Internal | tax on items produced and consumed in the colonies |
| William Pitt | the British leader who developed a plan to win the French and Indian War |
| Patrick Henry | said "Give me liberty, or give me death." |
| Sugar Act of 1764 | passed by George Grenville- taxed items such as sugar, molasses and coffee, goal was to raise money to protect the colonies |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | stamp tax on newspapers, diplomas, variety of legal documents, colonists were being taxed without their consent |
| Colonial Opposition | Patrick Henry became the voice of the Revolution |
| Declaratory Act | said that Parliament had the right to pass any law regarding the colonies that they desired |
| Townshend Acts 1767 | taxes on glass, paint, paper and tea- taxes would pay salary of royal officials, |
| pontiac | ottawa indian chief formed alliance with Indian tribes- eventually made peace with the British |
| Great Awakening | provided religious and cultural unity |
| Proclamation line of 1763 | colonist couldn't settle beyond the Appalachain mtns=goal was to diminish conflicts with the Indians |
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