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APUS – Chapter 6: The Duel for North America: 1608 – 1763

1) Why did the Iroquois hate the French? What made the alliance between France and the Huron “fateful?”

2) How many people lived in “New France” in 1760? How does this compare with the population of the English/British colonies to their south?

3) How did the settlements of the War of Jenkins’ Ear and King George’s War inflame relations between American colonials and their European “betters?”

4) Why was George Washington in Ohio in 1754? Describe his adventure.

5) Explain William Pitt’s phrase “America was conquered in Germany.”

6) What was the purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754?

7) Explain this cartoon:

8) Describe “Braddock’s Blunder.”

9) How did Pitt change the course of the war?

10) What was the scale of the French and Indian or Seven Year’s War?

11) What were the treaty settlements at the end of the French and Indian War?

12) What lessons did the colonists learn, both about themselves and about the British, as a result of this war?

13) Describe how the “colonials,” through their actions/activities, antagonized the British.

14) How did the removal or reduction of foreign threats (France, Spain, and the Indians) increase tensions between the colonists and their colonial overlords in British North America?

15) How did the terms of the peace help to inflame American passions toward a more militant mindset?