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52 Cards in this Set
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How many worlds wars since 1688?
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9
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Protestant
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Huguenots
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What granted limited toleration to French Protestants?
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Edict of Nantes
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King of France, enthroned at age of 5.
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King Louis XIV
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guns were called
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lightning sticks
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what animal was sought by the french?
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beaver
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french fur trappers called...
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coureurs de bois. runners of the wood
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Baton Rouge means
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red stick
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Terre Haute means
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high land
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Des Moines means
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some monks
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grand teton
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big breast
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french catholic missionary who tried to save indians??
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jesuits
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Detriot
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city of straits
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King williams/queen annes war was who against who?
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coureruers de bois against brit colonists
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"Captivity is an awful schoool for childdren when we see how quick they will fall in with the indian ways. nothing seems to be more taking. in six months time they forsake father and mother, forget their own land, refuse to speak their own tongue, and seemingly be wholly swallowed up by indians
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titus king
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led to colonial independence
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salutary neglect
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had his ear chopped off?
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Robert Jenkins
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Spanish commander said?
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carry this home to the king, your master whom, if he were present, I would serve in like fashion
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what outragged brit who beat french in king georges war?
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gave back louisbourg
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formitable fort built by french on ohio river
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fort duquesne, later sight of pitsburg
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"I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound"
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washington, after take over of fort duquesne
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Acadians called... in...
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cajuns mainly in louisiana
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Name the two sides of the seven years war
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britain and prussia////france spain austria russia
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who repelled what where
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frekerick the great in germany, everyone else
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William Pitt said
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america was conquered in germany
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how many delegates showed up at the albany congress?
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7 of 13
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what and where did ben post? name? what two colonies were left out?
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commic in the pennsylvania gazette "join or die" delaware and georgia left out
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what was the problem of making a union?
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their weak noddle were perfectly distracted on agreeing on details
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colonial militiamen aka
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bucksins
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____ Braddock
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Bulldog
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what happened to washington at the battle of fort dusquesne?
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two horses shot from under him, four bullets pieced his coat
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what did authorities do to stop indians?
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offer 130 for man, 50 woman scalp
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william pitt aka
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great commoner, organizer of victory
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what did people do to pitt?
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kiss his horses
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pitt concentrated on...
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quebec and montreal
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where did the two armies first meet in Quebec?
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plains of abraham
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how many american soldiers were there after the end of seven years war?
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20,000
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what did the british refuse to do?
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acknowledge ranks about captain, humiliating "colonel" washington
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british described new world as
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outhouses of civilization
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"in general the dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive"
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general wofle about the colonial militia
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what were brits forced to do by end of french indian war
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forbade export of all supplies form new england and middle colonies
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many colonies did what? what changed this?
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did not contribute resources to the war... pitt offered to pay 900,000 pounds
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what were the aristocrats called?
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bidwigs
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french and indian war led to what? american change
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unity, all realize they all hate britain
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what comparison is used to describe when french were/were not present?
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american = baby , britain = hawk that protects baby
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the history of the US began with
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fall of quebec and montreal; when infant republic was cradled on plains of abraham
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andrew burnady
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quote about colonies like fire and ice
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what chief did what in 1763?
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ottawa Pontiac led indians against british in ohio
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what city did britain remain in after independence?
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detroit
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what tatics did british use in retaliation?
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infected blankets, biological warfare
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what provided sanctuary for colonists did rev war?
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interior cities where navy could not reach
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what stopped spread of colonists
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proclamation line of 1763
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