Chapter 6 Vocab

Question 1

French Protestant dissenters, the (????) were granted limited toleration under the Edict of Nantes.

Answer 1

Huguenots

Question 2

Decree issued by the French crown granting limited toleration to French Protestant.

Answer 2

Edict of Nantes

Question 3

also known as “voyageurs” (travelers) , who established trading posts throughout North America.

Answer 3

coureurs de bois

Question 4

Translated as “runners of the woods,” they were French fur-trappers and established trading posts throughout North America

Answer 4

voyageurs

Question 5

War fought largely between French trappers, British settlers, and their respective Indian allies from 1689–1697.

Answer 5

King William’s War

Question 6

Second in a series of conflicts between the European powers for control of North America, fought between the English and French colonists in the North, and the English and Spanish in Florida

Answer 6

Queen Anne’s War

Question 7

Small-scale clash between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and in the buffer colony, Georgia.

Answer 7

War of Jenkin’s Ear

Question 8

North American theater of Europe’s War of Austrian Succession that once again pitted British colonists against their French counterparts in the North.

Answer 8

King George’s War

Question 9

French residents of Nova Scotia, many of whom were uprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south as Louisiana, where their descendants became known as “Cajuns.”

Answer 9

Acadians

Question 10

Nine-year war between the British and the French in North America.

Answer 10

French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

Question 11

Intercolonial congress summoned by the British government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French

Answer 11

Albany Congress

Question 12

Trained professional soldiers, as distinct from militia or conscripts.

Answer 12

regulars

Question 13

Historic British victory over French forces on the outskirts of Québec.

Answer 13

Battle of Quèbec

Question 14

Bloody campaign waged by Ottawa chief Pontiac to drive the British out of Ohio Country.

Answer 14

Pontiac’s uprising.

Question 15

Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac’s uprising, prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachians. Contributed to rising resentment of British rule in the American colonies.

Answer 15

Proclamation of 1763