Test 1 Flashcards
(25 cards)
The “three fires”
Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwa
Old Copper Indians
5,000 BC. Mined copper from the UP and made tools from the resource
Hopewell Tradition
1) Grew corn, squash, and beans. 2) Built mounds as burial sites. 3) Made pottery.
Jacques Cartier
Arrived in North America in the 16th century. His purpose was to find gold & other resources to become wealthy.
Samuel de Champlain
Sent by King Henry to colonize North America. He founded Quebec City in 1608.
Jean Nicolet
He was a translator in Quebec. He was the first Frenchman to cross Lake Michigan.
Fr. Jacques Marquette
Founded Michigans first settlements, Sault St. Marie and St. Ignace.
The Griffin
First European ship to sail the upper great lakes.
Sieur de Cadillac
Turned Detroit into a settlement
French and Indian War
Fought over the settlements west of the Alleghenies.
William Pitt
War hero for the British during the French & Indian war. He led aggressively military tactics which gained land for the British.
Fort Durquesne
Taken by the British during the F&I war. Gave the British control of the Ohio river.
William Johnson
British Indian agent. Met with the natives and they vowed loyalty to the British.
Pontiac
Led a native american war against the British, He led the Detroit native tribes.
Proclamation of 1763
British stated that all land west of the Alleghenies was reserved for the British.
Quebec Act of 1764
Quebec territory extended west tot he Mississippi and south to the Ohio river.
Battle of Bloody Run
Pontiac’s fiercest battle in Michigan
Land Ordinance of 1785
raise money through the sale of land by selling individual lots.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Laid out the process by which all future territories could apple for statehood.
Anthony Wayne
Fought the Natives and beat them at the battle of Fallen Timbers, which ended the northwest indian war.
Northwest Indian war
Indians wanted to push the Americans out of Ohio Country.
Treaty of Greenville
the chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi ceded their land in Ohio to America. In MI, they ceded the land along the Detroit river and Mackinac.
William Hull
Michigan territory’s first governor.
Augustus Woodward
Michigan’s first judge who laid out a plan for streets in Detroit.
