Section 1

Question 0

___________________ needed farmland and that caused between them and ___________________.

Answer 0

British settlers, native Americans

Question 1

By the _____s, British settlers were pushing into the ________________ lands claimed by the French.

Answer 1

1740s, Ohio river valley

Question 2

In _____, the _________ began building forts to back their claim to the land between Lake Erie and the Ohio River.

Answer 2

1753, French

Question 3

Who did the governor decide to send to ask the French to leave the Ohio River Valley?

Answer 3

George Washington

Question 4

Washington traveled to where the Allegheny and the Monongahela river meet to form the Ohio River. The _______ had already started building their own fort, _______________. 50 miles away Washington but his fort, ____________________.

Answer 4

French, fort Duquesne, fort necessity

Question 5

Later, _______________ troops attacked and defeated a small French force. However, a larger French army arrived and forced Washington to surrender _________________. The French told Washington to tell Britain that they would never give up the Ohio River Valley.

Answer 5

Washington, Fort Necessity

Question 6

What is an alliance?

Answer 6

An agreement between nations or groups to help each other against other nations or groups

Question 7

Where did the British government call a meeting of colonial leaders?

Answer 7

Albany, New York

Question 8

Who did the British ask to form an alliance with?

Answer 8

Iroquois

Question 9

Who did the Iroquois make an alliance with? Why?

Answer 9

French

They expected the French to defeat the British.

Question 10

What did Benjamin Franklin publish in his newspaper? What was the first one?

Answer 10

He published a picture of a snake chopped into pieces with the warning “Join, or Die.”
New England

Question 11

The Albany Plan of Union called for…

Answer 11

• council of representatives elected by the colonial assemblies
• council would have authority over western settlements, relations with Native Americans, and other urgent matters
• organize armies and collect taxes to pay expenses

Question 12

Who wrote the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 12

Benjamin Franklin

Question 13

Why did the colonies reject Franklin’s plan?

Answer 13

They wanted control their own taxes and armies.

Question 14

What did Franklin call the colonies?

Answer 14

“Weak noodles”

Question 15

Soon after Washington’s return, the government decided it had to push the French out of the _________. In ______, it sent General ____________ to Virginia with orders to capture ______________. _____________ arrived with a large force of regular British troops and Virginia militia. Colonel George Washington joined ___________’s force as a volunteer.

Answer 15

Ohio River Valley, 1755, Edward Braddock, Fort Duquesne, Braddock, Braddock

Question 16

Soldiers warned him that soldiers matching down a narrow road through a dense forest in red uniforms were perfect targets for an enemy fighting from behind trees and bushes. Near Fort Duquesne he was ambushed by French troops. More then half his mean were dead including himself. Who is he?

Answer 16

General Braddock