Reading Quiz: Chapters 6

Question 1

Why was France a latecomer to colonization?

Answer 1

It was convulsed in the 1500s by foreign wars and domestic strife

Question 2

When France start to colonize

Answer 2

In 1598, when the Edict of Nantes was issued which allowed limited toleration to the French Huguenots

Question 3

Which King took an interest in overseas colonies?

Answer 3

King Louis XIV

Question 4

When was Quebec established?

Answer 4

1608

Question 5

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 5

intrepid soldier, became known as the “Father of New France”, entered into friendly relations with the Huron Indians, became enemies with the Iroquois, Iroquois hampered French efforts in Ohio Valley later

Question 6

Why didn’t the French immigrate to North America in hordes?

Answer 6

Peasants were too poor and Huguenots were not allowed to leave

Question 7

Valuable Resource in France

Answer 7

beaver

Question 8

What were beaver hunters’ known as

Answer 8

coureurs de bois (runners of the woods)

Question 9

Places the Coureurs de bois named

Answer 9

Baton Rouge, Terre Haute, Des Moines, Grand Teton

Question 10

Who did the voyageurs recruit to help and what happened

Answer 10

the Indians, but they were decimated by diseases and the beaver population was extinguished

Question 11

Who did French Catholics try to convert?

Answer 11

the Indians

Question 12

Antoine Cadillac founded what city in 1701

Answer 12

Detroit (City of Straits)

Question 13

Who founded Louisiana in 1682 and why?

Answer 13

Robert de LaSalle, to halt Spanish expansion into the area near the Gulf of Mexico

Question 14

What happened to Robert de LaSalle

Answer 14

he was killed three later in Spanish Texas by his mutinous crew

Question 15

Who did the English fight?

Answer 15

The coureurs de bois and Indian allies

Question 16

What cities did the Indians ravage?

Answer 16

Schenectady and Deerfield

Question 17

What cities did the British try to capture?

Answer 17

Quebec and Montreal

Question 18

What did England gain in the peace deal in Utrecht in 1713?

Answer 18

Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Hudson Bay, trading rights with the Spanish

Question 19

Had the War of Jenkins’ Ear begin?

Answer 19

When Jenkins’ ear was cut off by a Spanish comander

Question 20

Where was Jenkins’ war confined

Answer 20

Carribbean and Georgia

Question 21

What war did this soon combine with and what was it known as in America

Answer 21

War of Austrian Succession; King George’s War

Question 22

Who did France allie itself with?

Answer 22

Spain

Question 23

Who fought for the Ohio Valley?

Answer 23

Spanish, British, and French

Question 24

Who did the governor of Virginia send in 1754 to Ohio?

Answer 24

George Washington

Question 25

What happened at Fort Duquesne?

Answer 25

the troops killed the French leader but were then surrounded by French troops, Washington surrendered but had to take blame for the war

Question 26

What did the French and Indian War begin with?

Answer 26

Washington's battle at Fort Duquesne

Question 27

What were the sides in the French and Indian War?

Answer 27

England and Purssia (Germany) vs France, Spain,, Austria and Russia

Question 28

How did Fredrick the Great win his title and what was the effect on the colonies?

Answer 28

by repelling French, Austrian and Russian armies; inspired the colonies to unite

Question 29

What happened in 1754

Answer 29

7 of the 13 colonies met in the Albany Congres

Question 30

Effect of Albany Congress

Answer 30

helped unite the colonists but ultimately failed. first step toward unity

Question 31

Who was the first general that England sent for the French and Indian War?

Answer 31

General Edward Braddock

Question 32

What happened to the British?

Answer 32

ambushed by French using "Indian Tatics"; Washington was shot at multiple times but the bullets never went through him

Question 33

What happened to the frontier from Pennsylvania to NC?

Answer 33

they felt Indian wrath

Question 34

Who was the Great Commoner?

Answer 34

William Pitt

Question 35

Changes that Pitt made

Answer 35

soft-pedaled assaults on the French West Indies and replaced old officers with new officers

Question 36

What happened in 1758

Answer 36

Louisberg fell

Question 37

What happened near the Plains of Abraham

Answer 37

The soldiers scaled the walls of Quebec and won Quebec for the English

Question 38

1759

Answer 38

Battle of Quebec

Question 39

Treaty of 1763

Answer 39

France was kicked out of North America' the French were allowed to retain several small but valuable sugar islands and two islets in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Question 40

What did France give Spain?

Answer 40

Louisiana

Question 41

What started to happen between British soldiers and colonists?

Answer 41

the British soldiers started to disrespect the colonists

Question 42

What did England do in the last years of the war?

Answer 42

forbid trade between colonial regions

Question 43

What did American start to find during the war?

Answer 43

that they had many similarities

Question 44

What happened after France had been beaten?

Answer 44

Colonists felt they could roam freely and were less dependent on the British

Question 45

What did the French hope to happen?

Answer 45

For the British to lose their empire

Question 46

What happened in 1763

Answer 46

Chief Pontiac led a few French-allied tribes on a campaign through the Ohio Valley; quickly defeated with small-pox infected blankets; whites started policing the frontier

Question 47

Effects of Proclamation of 1763

Answer 47

Colonists saw it is as oppression; 1000 wagons rolled through Sailsbury. NC as protest

Question 48

First group to leave Canada and where did they go

Answer 48

Acadians; went to Louisana; practiced Roman Catholicism; spoke Cajun; intermarried

Question 49

1763- who left Canada

Answer 49

2nd group of French; preserved Roman Catholicism and language; became known as New England French-Canadians