Chapter 5 Flashcards

1
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British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian forces

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Edward Braddock

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2
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Resourceful French commander during King William’s war

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Comte de Frontenac

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3
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British King who antagonized the colonists

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George III

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4
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Talented French leader during the French and Indian war

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Marquis de Montcalm

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5
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Indian chief whose confederacy devastated the frontier

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Pontiac

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6
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French priest who explored the upper Mississippi River

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Jacques Marquette

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7
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Orator (speaker) from Virginia who opposed British tyranny

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Patrick Henry

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8
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French fort built at the Forks of the Ohio River at the outset of the French and Indian war

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Fort Duquesne

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9
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Primarily European conflicts that began in the new world and also known as the seven years war

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French Indian war

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10
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Leader of the Sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams

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12
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Battle that resulted with Britain in control of eastern Canada and France in the charge of st. Lawrence and Great Lakes region

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Queen Anne’s war

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13
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Organization that opposed the tyranny of British rule

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Sons of Liberty

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14
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French trapper who explored the upper Mississippi River

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Louis Joliet

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16
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The act of voluntarily abstaining from using buying goods

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Boycotts

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17
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Requirement that salaries taxes and expenditures be scrutinized by elected officials

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Power of the purse

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18
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British prime minister who attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies

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George Grenville

20
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Colonial commander who fought in the skirmish of the French and Indian war

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George Washington

20
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Surprise attacks by small hidden groups

A

Guerilla warfare

22
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Prime minister of Great Britain who won the seven years war

A

William Pitt

22
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Any tax on goods that are produced and consumed entirely within a country

A

Internal tax

23
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A repressive series of direct taxes on various colonial goods such as glass

A

Townsend acts

24
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Author of Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies

A

John Dickinson

24
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Requirement that the colonists help supply the British army give them a place to stay

A

Quartering act

25
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Author of a proposal to unite the colonies against France

A

Benjamin Franklin

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British attempt to tax legal and commercial documents in the colonies
Stamp act
26
Battle that would merge from the war from Austrian succession and would conclude with truce in Europe with the peace of aix-la-chapelle
King George's war
27
The territory the French claimed along the Mississippi River
Louisiana
28
Dramatically changed the face of North America by removing French influence as a major influence on the continent
Treaty of Paris
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Delegates from nine colonies met in New York to formally denounce ursurpation of colonial rights
Stamp act congress
30
Colonial congress that unsuccessfully tried to unite the colonies during the French and Indian war
Albany congress
31
Infamous incident where British redcoats killed five unarmed patriots in 1770
Boston massacre
32
Tax placed on certain goods imported into the colonies such as sugar molasses and coffee
Sugar act
33
French settlers who were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia
Acadians
34
War fought largely between French trappers British settlers and their respective allies
King Williams war
35
Talented British general who died capturing Quebec
James Wolfe
36
Ended fighting on both sides of the Atlantic in 1713 following queen Anne's war
Treaty of Utrecht
37
Battle where the British captured Quebec
Battle of the plains of Abraham
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Ban on colonization beyond the Appalachian mountains
Proclamation line