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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 his disrespect of the American Indians and his lack if knowledge of the terrain left him in defeat and with battle wounds that killed him. |
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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 Duquesne |
Governor of New France at the opening of the French and Indian war he had a fort named after him at the Forks of Ohio. |
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George Washington |
A young Virginian who was in charge of the British troops when the first shots of the war had been fired. He went on to become a very prominent figure in U.S. history. |
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Marquis de Montcalm |
Appointed New France's military commander in 1756, he won many victories with limited resources; however, he ultimately lost the battle for Quebec and was killed in action. |
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Alliance |
An agreement between parties that benefits them both. |
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Resolve |
Strong determination |
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Militia |
Organized body of armed volunteers
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Iroquois
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A member of a former confederacy of North American Indian people originally comprising the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca people. |
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James Wolfe |
A British officer who was known for his training reforms
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Albany Plan of Union
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A proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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Proclamation of 1763 |
Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which stopped all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. |
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William Pitt |
A British states man of the Whig group who led the government of Great Britain twice in the middle of the 17th century
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Huron |
a member of a confederation of native North American people formerly living in the region east of Lake Huron and now settled mainly in Oklahoma and Quebec
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Algonkian |
North American Indian languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains.
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