Chapter 5 Flashcards

1
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British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian forces

A

Edward Braddock

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2
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Resourceful French commander during King William’s war

A

Comte de Frontenac

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3
Q

British King who antagonized the colonists

A

George III

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4
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Talented French leader during the French and Indian war

A

Marquis de Montcalm

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5
Q

Indian chief whose confederacy devastated the frontier

A

Pontiac

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6
Q

French priest who explored the upper Mississippi River

A

Jacques Marquette

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7
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Orator (speaker) from Virginia who opposed British tyranny

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Patrick Henry

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8
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French fort built at the Forks of the Ohio River at the outset of the French and Indian war

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Fort Duquesne

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9
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Primarily European conflicts that began in the new world and also known as the seven years war

A

French Indian war

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10
Q

Leader of the Sons of Liberty

A

Samuel Adams

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12
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Battle that resulted with Britain in control of eastern Canada and France in the charge of st. Lawrence and Great Lakes region

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Queen Anne’s war

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13
Q

Organization that opposed the tyranny of British rule

A

Sons of Liberty

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14
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French trapper who explored the upper Mississippi River

A

Louis Joliet

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16
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The act of voluntarily abstaining from using buying goods

A

Boycotts

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17
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Requirement that salaries taxes and expenditures be scrutinized by elected officials

A

Power of the purse

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18
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British prime minister who attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies

A

George Grenville

20
Q

Colonial commander who fought in the skirmish of the French and Indian war

A

George Washington

20
Q

Surprise attacks by small hidden groups

A

Guerilla warfare

22
Q

Prime minister of Great Britain who won the seven years war

A

William Pitt

22
Q

Any tax on goods that are produced and consumed entirely within a country

A

Internal tax

23
Q

A repressive series of direct taxes on various colonial goods such as glass

A

Townsend acts

24
Q

Author of Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies

A

John Dickinson

24
Q

Requirement that the colonists help supply the British army give them a place to stay

A

Quartering act

25
Q

Author of a proposal to unite the colonies against France

A

Benjamin Franklin

26
Q

British attempt to tax legal and commercial documents in the colonies

A

Stamp act

26
Q

Battle that would merge from the war from Austrian succession and would conclude with truce in Europe with the peace of aix-la-chapelle

A

King George’s war

27
Q

The territory the French claimed along the Mississippi River

A

Louisiana

28
Q

Dramatically changed the face of North America by removing French influence as a major influence on the continent

A

Treaty of Paris

29
Q

Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to formally denounce ursurpation of colonial rights

A

Stamp act congress

30
Q

Colonial congress that unsuccessfully tried to unite the colonies during the French and Indian war

A

Albany congress

31
Q

Infamous incident where British redcoats killed five unarmed patriots in 1770

A

Boston massacre

32
Q

Tax placed on certain goods imported into the colonies such as sugar molasses and coffee

A

Sugar act

33
Q

French settlers who were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia

A

Acadians

34
Q

War fought largely between French trappers British settlers and their respective allies

A

King Williams war

35
Q

Talented British general who died capturing Quebec

A

James Wolfe

36
Q

Ended fighting on both sides of the Atlantic in 1713 following queen Anne’s war

A

Treaty of Utrecht

37
Q

Battle where the British captured Quebec

A

Battle of the plains of Abraham

38
Q

Ban on colonization beyond the Appalachian mountains

A

Proclamation line