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14 Cards in this Set
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-"Father of New France"
-helped Huron Indians defeat Iroquois |
Samuel de Champlain
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-French who recruited Indians into the fur trapping business
-coureurs de bois |
voyaguers
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-founded Detroit to fend off English settlers pushing into Ohio River Valley
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Antoine Cadillac
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-sailed down the Mississippi river, claiming all land that touched the water to be France's
-founded BIG Louisiana |
Robert De La Salle
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-French coureurs de bois vs. British colonists
-1st of French vs. British wars in US -neither side was comitted enough to send its own troops over -Gave the British Acadia, Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay -Gave British trading rights with Spanish Florida |
King William's War and Queen Anne's War
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-3rd war with France
-included the War of Jenkins Ear -fought in the Caribbean and Georgia -British colonists took Ft. Louisbourg -This was later given back to France, angering colonists |
King George's War
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-Fort that George Washington attacked, starting the French and Indian War
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Fort Duqeusne
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-first meeting of colonies
-7 of 13 showed up -Benjamin Franklin urged the colonies toward unity -"Join or Die" poster -unity was not accomplished since states didn't want to give up their sovereignty |
Albany Congress
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-General Britain sent to lead American soldiers during F&I war
-men ambushed and he killed -eventually needed to use guerilla warfare to survive -disproved the invincibility of the British army |
General Edward Braddock
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-popular British prime minister who helped during the F&I war
-took focus off of West Indies and instead on Canada -replaced old officers with daring ones |
William Pitt
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-Turning point of F&I war
-led by James Wolfe -France was pretty much done for -Wolfe died in battle |
Battle of Quebec
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-Treaty that ended the F&I war
-France was kicked out of North America completely -Britain got all of Canada and all land east of Mississippi |
Treaty of Paris 1763
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-Indian who led a raid in the Ohio Valley wanting land
-Brutally crushed -After the F&I war, influencing the Proclomation Line of 1763 |
Pontiac
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-line (Appalacian mountains) that American colonists could not cross
-to appease Indians and end violence -Americans outraged |
Proclomation of 1763
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