Beginnings
Early Concerns
The British
The French
Native Americans
100
The stretch of land that both the French and the British felt entitled to in North America.
What is the Ohio Valley?
100
Wampum
What is a woven record of negotiations that was required by the Native people in order to end meetings regarding peace, war, and friendship?
100
A British general with little military experience chosen to lead primarily because of his understanding of native cultures.
Who was William Johnson?
100
General Montcalm
Who was the French general who led the French army?
100
To leave their land.
What did the Native Americans want the Europeans to do?
200
Joseph de Jumonville
Who was the French officer killed in the first "skirmish" that led to the French and Indian War?
200
The Iroquois League
What is a most powerful league of Native American nations that the British attempted to gain as allies early in the war? Only one Seneca tribe led by the Half King joined the British.
200
Chief Hendrik
Who was a Mowhawk chief who had an alliance with William Johnson who also straddled both the European and Native worlds?
200
The way the French convinced the Native Americans to fight with them.
What is by showing them solidarity by taking on Native fighting techniques (gorilla warfare, face painting)?
200
Things that Native Americans did to captives.
What is running them through the "gauntlet," adopted them as family members, scalped them, and sold them for ransom?
300
General Braddock
Who was the British general of the colonial army at the start of the French and Indian War?
300
The Battle of Lake George
What is a battle led by William Johnson that was disasterous? The British lost to the French and William Johnson was injured.
300
Montcalm's feelings towards Native people
What is was a strong distrust for them, a sense that they were barbarians, and a distate for their habit of taking captives upon winning a battle?
300
The Native American chief who declared war on the colonists after the French and Indian war.
Who was Pontiac?
400
The individual who took over the colonial British army after General Braddock was killed by the French in the Ohio Valley.
Who was George Washington?
400
The French fort at the Forks of the Ohio.
What is Fort Duquense?
400
Fort William Henry
What is fort that William Johnson built?
400
Reasons why the Native people angry with the French after the defeat of Fort William Henry.
What is because Montcalm wouldn't let them take captives (as promised), and held a banquet with the British without inviting the Native Americans?
400
The weapon that General Amherst proposed to use against the Native Americans.
What is small pox?
500
The Iroquois leader who killed Joseph de Jumonville in 1754 in an incident that is widely thought of as the one to start the French and Indian war (even though the war didn't actually start until 1756).
Who was the Half King?
500
The crude fort build by the British near the Forks of the Ohio- also the site of a humiliating defeat of the British led by George Washington early in the war.
What is Fort Necessity?
500
General Loudoun's issues with the Colonial Army
What were their lack of loyalty to the King, their unwillingness to fight without a contract, and their tendency to desert (run away) from the battle?
500
Two battles that the British won that marked the turning point of the war because it cut off France's supply chain in North America.
What were the battle at Fort Frontenac and the Fall of Louisbourg?
500
The concerns that the Native Americans had over choosing sides in this war.
Native Americans didn't want to shed Native blood for a European war, but wanted to keep their land that they felt was their birthright. Their strongest desire was for the Europeans to leave them alone so that they continue their life and culture as they had for the previous thousands of years.
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