French and Indian War

Question 1

manifest destiny

Answer 1

The idea that the former British colonies would naturally spread across the whole American continent and take over all land from the First Nations people. This term wasn’t coined until the nineteenth century and is related to the idea of ‘American exceptionalism’, but not the same as it.

Question 2

The Great Awakening

Answer 2

A wave of evangelical preaching that spread through the American colonies in the 1730s to approximately 1740.

Question 3

American exceptionalism

Answer 3

The belief that America was chosen by God for a special mission.

Question 4

City upon a hill

Answer 4

Taken from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, used by the puritans in the 1600s, it means that America is a ‘beacon of hope’ for the world

Question 5

Appalachians

Answer 5

The mountain range to the east of the thirteen colonies.

Question 6

House of Burgesses

Answer 6

the Virginian parliament

Question 7

Tories

Answer 7

conservatives in the British parliament; also used to mean opponents of American independence.

Question 8

Whigs

Answer 8

progressives in the British parliament

Question 9

Robert Dinwiddie

Answer 9

Governor of Virginia during the French and Indian War

Question 10

Iroquois Nation

Answer 10

First Nation allies of the British during the French and Indian War