Chs-Ap-Us History

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Huguenots

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French Protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France..

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Coureurs de Bois

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Fur runners who were also runners of risk, two fisted drinkers, free spenders, free liver and lovers..

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Voyageurs

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Boats men hired by fur traders to transport furs.

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Seven Years' War

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Conflict that begun with George Washington's skirmish in Ohio and ended with the loss of France's North American empire.

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Acadians

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French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British and shipped to Louisiana.

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Albany Congress

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Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly led to success by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry.

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Pontiacs uprising

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A revolt of Native Americans in the spring of 1763 that laid siege to Michigan and killed some two thousand soldiers and settlers.

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Pontiac

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Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused the British to attempt to limit colonial expansion.

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Proclamation of 1763

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British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion.

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Plains of Abraham

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Site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New World empire also perished.

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William Pitt

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Splendid British orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in North America.

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George Washington

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Militia commander whose frontier skirmish in Pennsylvainia touched off a world war.

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Benjamin Franklin

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Advocate of colonial unity at a 1754 meeting in Upstate New York.

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Fort Duquesne

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Strategic French stronghold; later renamed after a great British statesman.

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Robert de la Salle

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French empire builder who explored the Mississippi Basin and named it after his monarch.

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Samuel de Champlain

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The Father of New France, who established a crucial alliance with the Huron Indians.

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War of Austrian Succession

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Conflict that started with the War of Jenkin's Ear and ended with the return of Louisbourg to France.

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Jenkin's Ear

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Part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with Spain.

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militia

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The "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officers' contempt.

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Ohio Valley

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Inland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-specualting English colonists.

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Louis XVI

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Absolute French monarch who reigned for 72 years.

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Jesuits

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French Catholic religious order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians

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General Braddock

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Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early stages of their war.

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Albany

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Site of a meeting that proposed greater unity and home rule among Britain's North American colonies.

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Loisbourg

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Strategic French fortress conquered by New England settlers, handed back to the French, and finally conquered again by the British in 1759.

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King William's war and Queen Anne's war

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The earliest contests among the European power for control of North America.

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Battle of Quebec

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One of the most significant engagements in British and American history were two cammanders one from each side Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm died.

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Quebec

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Fortress boldy assulted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France.

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New Orleans

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Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi.

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Beaver

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Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost.