Unit 1, Chapter 6

Question 1

Edict of nates

Answer 1

(1598) decree issued by French Crown granting limited toleration to French Protestants

Question 2

Coureurs de bois

Answer 2

French fur trappers also known as “Voyagers” who established trading posts throughout North America
-“Runners of the woods”

Question 3

King Williams war

Answer 3

(1689-1697)-war fought between French trappers British settlers and their respective Indian allies

Question 4

Queen Anne’s war

Answer 4

(1702-1713) Second in a series of conflicts between European powers for control of North America fought between English and French colonists in the north and the English and Spanish in the south

Question 5

War of Jenkins ear

Answer 5

(Began in 1739) small scale clash between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and in the buffer colony Georgia

Question 6

King George’s war

Answer 6

(1744-1748) North American theater of Europe’s war of Austrian succession that once again pitted British colonies against their friends counterparts in the north

Question 7

Acadians

Answer 7

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

Question 8

French and Indian war

Answer 8

(Seven years war)(1754-1763)nine-year war fought between the British and the French in North America

• it resulted in the expulsion of the French from the North American mainland and help sparked the seven years war in Europe
• beginning of hostilities between Great Britain and the colonies

Question 9

Albany congress

Answer 9

(1754). Foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against French

Question 10

Regulars

Answer 10

Trained professional soldiers as distinct from militia or conscripts

Question 11

Battle of Quebec

Answer 11

(1759) historic British victory over French forces on the outskirts of Quebec
- one of the most significant engagements in British and American history

Question 12

Pontiacs uprising

Answer 12

(1763) bloody companion waged by Ottawa chief Pontiac to drive the British out of Ohio country
- this war ended by infecting the Indians with diseases

Question 13

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 13

(1763) decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiacs uprising, prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachians
- was created to work out the Indian problem not oppress the colonists

Question 14

Huguenots

Answer 14

French Protestant dissenters, the Huguenots were granted limited toleration under the edict of nates
-bartholomews day- more than 10,000 Huguenots butchered in cold blood