Chapter 5 Flashcards
British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian forces
Edward Braddock
Resourceful French commander during King William’s war
Comte de Frontenac
British King who antagonized the colonists
George III
Talented French leader during the French and Indian war
Marquis de Montcalm
Indian chief whose confederacy devastated the frontier
Pontiac
French priest who explored the upper Mississippi River
Jacques Marquette
Orator (speaker) from Virginia who opposed British tyranny
Patrick Henry
French fort built at the Forks of the Ohio River at the outset of the French and Indian war
Fort Duquesne
Primarily European conflicts that began in the new world and also known as the seven years war
French Indian war
Leader of the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Battle that resulted with Britain in control of eastern Canada and France in the charge of st. Lawrence and Great Lakes region
Queen Anne’s war
Organization that opposed the tyranny of British rule
Sons of Liberty
French trapper who explored the upper Mississippi River
Louis Joliet
The act of voluntarily abstaining from using buying goods
Boycotts
Requirement that salaries taxes and expenditures be scrutinized by elected officials
Power of the purse
British prime minister who attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies
George Grenville
Colonial commander who fought in the skirmish of the French and Indian war
George Washington
Surprise attacks by small hidden groups
Guerilla warfare
Prime minister of Great Britain who won the seven years war
William Pitt
Any tax on goods that are produced and consumed entirely within a country
Internal tax
A repressive series of direct taxes on various colonial goods such as glass
Townsend acts
Author of Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies
John Dickinson
Requirement that the colonists help supply the British army give them a place to stay
Quartering act
Author of a proposal to unite the colonies against France
Benjamin Franklin
British attempt to tax legal and commercial documents in the colonies
Stamp act
Battle that would merge from the war from Austrian succession and would conclude with truce in Europe with the peace of aix-la-chapelle
King George’s war
The territory the French claimed along the Mississippi River
Louisiana
Dramatically changed the face of North America by removing French influence as a major influence on the continent
Treaty of Paris
Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to formally denounce ursurpation of colonial rights
Stamp act congress
Colonial congress that unsuccessfully tried to unite the colonies during the French and Indian war
Albany congress
Infamous incident where British redcoats killed five unarmed patriots in 1770
Boston massacre
Tax placed on certain goods imported into the colonies such as sugar molasses and coffee
Sugar act
French settlers who were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia
Acadians
War fought largely between French trappers British settlers and their respective allies
King Williams war
Talented British general who died capturing Quebec
James Wolfe
Ended fighting on both sides of the Atlantic in 1713 following queen Anne’s war
Treaty of Utrecht
Battle where the British captured Quebec
Battle of the plains of Abraham
Ban on colonization beyond the Appalachian mountains
Proclamation line
