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15 Cards in this Set
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Edward Braddock |
Although he led the largest army ever seen in North America at the time, his disrespect of the American Indians and his lack of Knowledge of the terrain led to a major defeat and battle wounds cause his death. |
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Marquis Duquesne |
Governor of New France at the opening of the French and Indian war. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
A printer from Philadelphia, he studied the politics of the Iroquois, which he used to formulate a plan of unity among the colonies |
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Marquis de Montcalm |
Appointed New France's military commander in 1756, he won many victories with limited resources; he ultimately lost the battle for Quebec and was killed in action |
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George Washington |
a young Virginian who was in charge of the British troops when the first shots of the war were fired. He went on to become a very prominent figure in the U.S. history |
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Alliance |
a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
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Resolve |
to come to a definite or earnest decision about something
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Militia |
a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
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Iroquois |
The Iroquois, who prefer to be known as the Haudenosaunee, are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy.
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James Wolfe |
Major General James Wolfe was a British officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French battle at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Canada in 1759.
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Albany Plan of Union |
the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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William Pitt |
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC was a British statesman of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 18th century.
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Huron |
The Wyandot people or Wendat, also called Huron, are indigenous peoples of North America. Fought for the french
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Algonkian |
were allies with the french and fur traders with the french |
