Unit 3 Flashcards
Allies of seven years war
Austria, France, Russia
Prussia, Britain
Allies of war of Austrian succession
Austria, Britain, Dutch
Prussia, France
Battle of plassey
Britain, Robert Clive, sepoys vs India, suraja doula
At Bengal in India
Cause of war of Austrian succession
Frederick the great ignores pragmatic sanction and invades Silesia (Habsburg territory under Maria Theresa)
The two treaties that made up the peace of settlement
Treaty of hubertusberg
Treaty of Paris
Jacobites
The partisans of James III or as others called him, the pretender
Legendary merchants of England and France
England - Thomas Pitt
France - jean joseph laborde
What treaty ended the war of Austrian succession
No territorial change
Aix la chapelle
What ended the 7 years war
Peace of settlement comprising of the treaty of hubertusburg and treaty of paris
Decisive British victory that greatly compromised France’s defenses
Quebec
Magyars
Hungarian political elites
Louisburg
French fortress on Cape Breton Island that was captured by an expedition of new englanders
England restored it to back to France in the treaty of aix la chapelle
In canada
Santo Domingo
French sugar cane island
Biggest sugar producer
Count kaunitz
Concluded that the rise of Prussia had revolutionized the balance of power
Austrian foreign minister
Most artful diplomat of the century
Proposed the alliance of habsburgs and France (Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI)
Black hole of calcutta
Local muslim ruler, with french backing, locked 146 englishmen in a tiny cell, where most suffocated
Who was the treaty of hubertusburg between?
Austria and prussia
Who was the treaty of paris between?
France and england
Who kept silesia in the end of all this war crap?
Prussia
King of England
Elector of Hanover
George I
England’s first prime minister
Part of Whig party
Robert Walpole
Rivalries
Prussia - Austria
Power in Central Europe
Britain - France
Trade in North America, West Indies, and India
Prussia was saved from defeat when, blank, who admired Frederick the great, dropped out of the war
Russia’s new tsar, peter III
British acquired French Canada and land in east half of America
France retained Caribbean sugar islands
Prussia retained Silesia
Treaty of Paris
Ostend company
The belgiums founded this overseas trading company in 1723 under the authority of their new austrian ruler
Jan Vermeer
Famous dutch painter who painted the artists studio
Count Kaunitz
Concluded that the rise of prussia revolutionized the balance of power
