Vocabulary
Key People
Key Places
Key Ideas
Brain
Busters
100
A journey made for a special purpose
What is an expedition?
100
He was the founder of the New France and one of his goals was to find a direct water route through the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
100
A colony that was located on the present-day site of Quebec in Canada.
What is New France?
100
These were the first European settlers in Michigan.
Who are the French?
100
Another name for trading
What is to barter?
200
Frenchmen who transported furs from the trading posts to Quebec.
What is voyageurs?
200
A European explorer in 1492 who landed on San Salvador and at first believed he had landed on the east coast of Asia.
Who is Christipher Columbus?
200
Jacques Marquette founded Michigan's first settlement at Sault Ste. Marie and this second settlement south near present day Mackinac Bridge.
What is St. Ignace?
200
This trade grew between the Native Americans and the French.
What is the fur trade?
200
A tall fence to help settlements against attack
What is a stockade?
300
An agreement between two countries.
What is a treaty?
300
Who fought against whom in the French and Indian War?
Who are the French, Native Americans, and British?
300
Another name for Detroit.
What is Fort Pontchartrain?
300
This happened as a result of the French building Fort Duquesne and the British attacking it.
What is the Fench and Indian War?
300
The practice of making one person the property of another person.
What is slavery?
400
Name for all the battles in which Native Americans captured all but three of the British forts
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
400
This colonist led an army against Fort Duquesne and later became the first president.
Who is George Washington?
400
Many explorers tried to find this direct water route through the North American continent.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
This stated that the Native Americans would have the land west of the Appaalachian Mts. And the British would have the lands east of these same Mts.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
The number of colonies that the British began
What is thirteen?
500
A place or settlement that is ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
500
Name the four of the five "owners" of American land.
Who are the Native Americans, French, British, Spanish (for one day), and Americans (settlers, pioneers)?
500
At this fort the Native Americans used a ball game to trick the British in order to conquer it.
What is Fort Michilimackinac?
500
This group of people were pushed out of their lands
What are the Native Americans?
500
The winner of the French and Indian War.
Who are the British?