American Pageant 13th Edition Chapter 6
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Pastapiggy on September 29, 2009
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Flashcards for Chapter 6. It may be a bit too thorough since some of the questions are on some insignificant occurrences but there are around 5 questions from each section of the chapter.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Protestant Huguenots | French Protestants who were granted toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598 but not permitted to settle in New France. |
| King Louis XIV | Absolute French monarch who reigned for seventy-two years. |
| Beaver | Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost. |
| Jesuits | French Catholic missionary order that explored the North American interior and sought to protect and convert the Indians. |
| Coureurs de Bois | Far-running, high-living French fur trappers |
| Jenkin's Ear | Part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with Spain. |
| Fortress Louisburg | Strategic French fortress conquered by New England settlers, handed back to the French, and finally conquered again by the British in 1759. |
| Port Royal | Inland river territory, scene of fierce competition between the French and land-speculating English colonists. |
| Germany | Bloodiest European threater of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America. |
| Albany Congress | Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly inspired to success by eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry. |
| George Washington | Military aide of British General Braddock and defender of the frontier after Braddock's defeat. |
| The Plains of Abraham | Fortress boldly assaulted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France. |
| Roger's Rangers | The "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officers' contempt. |
| Ottawa | Allies of the French against the British, who continued to fight under Pontiac even after the peace settlement in 1763. |
| Conquest | The larger European struggle of which the French and Indian War was part. |
| Samuel de Champlain | The Father of New France, who established a fateful alliance with the Huron Indians. |
| Robert de la Salle | French empire builder who explored the Mississippi basin and named it after his monarch. |
| Albany | Document that ended the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War) and awarded Acadia to Britain |
| War of Austrian Succession | Conflict that started with the War of Jenkins Ear and ended with return of Louisburg to France. |
| Fort Duquesne | Strategic French stronghold, later renamed after a great British statesman. |
| George Washington | Militia commander whose frontier skirmish touched off a World War |
| Benjamin Franklin | Advocate of colonial unity at the unsuccessful Albany Congress. |
| General Braddock | Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early phase of the war. |
| William Pitt | Splendid British political orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in the North America. |
| Plains of Abraham | Site of the death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm, where France's New world empire also perished |
| Seven Years' War | Conflict that, in Europe, pitted France against Britain's ally Frederick the Great of Prussia. |
| Pontiac | Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused British to attempt to limit colonial frontier expansion. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | British Document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion. |
| New Orleans | Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi River. |
| Acadians (Cajuns) | French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British & shipped to Louisiana |
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