Chapter5 Flashcards
1.French priest who explored the upper Mississippi River.
Jacques Marquette
2.British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian forces.
Edward Braddock
3.Resource French commander during king William’s war.
Comte de Frontenac
4.British king who antagonized the colonist.
King George |||
5.Talented French leader during the French and Indian war.
Marquis de Montcalm
6.Indian chief whose confederacy devastated the frontier
Pontiac
7.Talented British General who died capturing Quebec.
James wolfe
8.Primarily European conflicts that began in the New World and also known as the Seven Years War.
French Indian War(1754-1763)
9.Leader of the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
10.Author of letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British colonies.
John Dickinson
11.Author of a proposal to unite the colonies against France.
Benjamin Franklin
12.British prime minister who at attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies
George Grenville
13.Orator(speaker) from Virginia who opposed British tyranny.
Patrick Henry
14.French trapper who explored the upper Mississippi river.
Louis Joliet.
15.Prime minister of Great Britain who won the Seven Years’ war.
William Pitt
16.colonial commander who fought in the first skirmish of the French and Indian war.
Gorge Washington
17.Surprise attacks by small hidden groups.
Querilla warfare
18.Any tax on goods that are produced and consumed entirely within a country.
Internal tax
19.Requirement that salaries,taxes,and expenditures be scrutinized by elected officials.
Power of the purse.
20.Bon on colonization beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation line
21.Requirement that the colonist help supply the British army give them a place to stay.
Quartering Act.
22.Organization that opposed the tyranny of British rule.
Sons of Liberty
23.British attempt to tax legal and commercial documents in the colonies.
Stamp Act
24.Battle that would merge from the war from Austrian Succession an would conclude with the truce in Europe with the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.
King George’s war.
25.A repressive series of direct taxes on various colonial goods,such as glass.
Townsend Acts
26.The territory the French claimed along the Mississippi river.
Louisiana
27.French fort built at the Forks of the Ohio river at the outset of the French and Indian war.
Fort Duquesne
28.Battle that resulted with Britain in control of Eastern Canada,and French in charge of St.Lawrence and Great Lake region.
Queen Anne’s war.
29.colonial congress that unsuccessfully tried to unite the colonies during the French and Indian war.
Albany congress
30.Infamous incident where British Redcoats killed five unarmed Patriots in1770.
Boston Massacre
31.French settlers who were forcibly removed from Nova scotia.
Acadians
32.War fought largely between French trappers,British settlers,and their respective allies.
King William’s war
33.Ended fighting on both sides of the Atlantic in1713,following Queen Anne’s war.
Treaty of utrecht
34.Dramatically changed the face of North America by removing French influence as a major influence on the continent.
Treaty of Paris
35.Tax placed on certain goods imported into the colonies,such as sugar,molasses,and coffee.
Sugar Act
36.The act of voluntarily abstaining from using,buying goods.
Boycotts
37.Battle where the British captured Quebec.
Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
38.Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to formally denounce usurpation of colonial rights.
Stamp Act congress
