French/Indian War
Pioneer Life
Words to Know
The French in Michigan
Vocabulary
100
These are the two sides who fought each other.
Who are the French & Indians vs. the British
100
Reasons it was hard to travel during pioneer days in Michigan
What is the roads were muddy/bumpy, fallen trees, or wild animals.
100
The names of the tribes of the Three Fires
What are the Potowatomi, the Ojibway, and the Ottawa
100
This is the main fur the French were interested in
What is beaver?
100
Records made by people who saw or took place in an event from the past Bonus: Name an example
What is a primary source? Bonus answer: photographs, diaries, letters, newspapers from the time
200
The reason the war was fought
What is the British wanted to control the fur trade
200
The number of logs needed to build a log cabin
What is 50-60.
200
A oerson who studies the past
What is a historian?
200
Three things Europeans had that Native Americans wanted to trade for
What are guns, bullets, gun powder, cooking pots, beads, cloth, jewelry, lanterns, hatchets, etc.
200
Records written by someone who was not there at the time of an event Bonus: Name an example
What is a secondary source? Bonus answer: testbook or nonfiction book
300
This is who won
What is the British
300
This helped bring many settlers to Michigan from New York
What is the Erie Canal
300
An area of land that belonged to the US but that was not a state
What is a territory?
300
A French person who moved furs through the Great Lakes region
What is a voyageur?
300
Things from the past that are left for us to study
What is an artifact?
400
This is who left after the war was over, never to return
Who are the French
400
Michigan needed about this many people to become a state BONUS - about how many people did Michigan have in 1830?
What is 60,000 BONUS answser - about 5,000
400
A counting of people living in an area
What is a census?
400
This Frenchman began a fort which is now the city of Detroit. BONUS: In what year did he do this?
Who is Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac? What is 1701?
400
Someone who travels to a new place to teach their religion to people
What is a missionary?
500
This group controlled the fur trade after the conflict was over
Who are the British
500
Michigan had to give up its claim to this Ohio city in order to become a state Bonus: What Michigan got in return
What is Ohio Bonus Answer: The western half of the upper peninsula
500
A written plan of government
What is a constitution?
500
He was believed to be the first European to visit the Great Lakes region
Who is Etienne Brule?
500
Not enough of a natural resource
What is scarcity?
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