Nik Duran

APUSH P. 5

APUSH- CHAPTER 6 TERMS

Samuel de Champlain: Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer who sailed to the West Indies,
Mexico, and Panama. He wrote many books telling of his trips to Mexico City and Niagara Falls. His
greatest accomplishment was his exploration of the St. Lawrence River and his latter settlement of
Quebec.

William Pitt (1708-1778)- British secretary of state during the French and Indian War. He brought the
British/colonial army under tight British control and started drafting colonists, which led to riots

Antoine Cadillac: Frenchman who founded Detroit in 1701 to thwart English settlers making a play for
the Ohio Valley.

Robert de la Salle: Robert de La Salle was responsible for naming Louisiana. He was the first European to
float down the Mississippi river to the tip from Canada and upon seeing the beautiful river valley named
Louisiana after his king Louis XIV in 1682.

James Wolfe: Wolfe was the British general whose success in the Battle of Quebec won Canada for the
British Empire. Even though the battle was only fifteen minutes, Wolfe was killed in the line of duty. This
was a decisive battle in the French and Indian War.

Edward Braddock: Edward Braddock was a British commander during the French and Indian War. He
attempted to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755. He was defeated by the French and the Indians. At this
battle, Braddock was mortally wounded.

Pontiac: Indian Chief; led post war flare-up in the Ohio River Valley and Great Lakes Region in 1763; his
actions led to the Proclamation of 1763; the Proclamation angered the colonists.

Louis XIV: Started French exploration overseas.

Ben Franklin: Famous statesmen, wrote Poor Man’s Almanac, widely read popular book. Writings
supported American Revolution by stirring upheaval.

George Washington: Lieutenant in Ohio Army; surrenders Fort Necessity to French. American
commander-in-chief; first president, set precedents for future presidents, put down Whiskey Rebellion
(enforced Whiskey Tax), managed first presidential cabinet, carefully used power of executive to avoid
monarchial style rule.

Huguenots: French Protestants. The Edict of Nantes (1598) freed them from persecution in France, but
when that was revoked in the late 1700s, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled to other countries,
including America.

Seven Years War (French and Indian War): Was a war fought by French and English on American soil
over control of the Ohio River Valley; English defeated French in1763. This established England as
number one world power and began to gradually change attitudes of the colonists toward England for
the worse

Acadians: French settlers who would not pledge their loyalties to the British and were driven from their
homes; cajuns of Louisiana are descendants of these people.
War of Spanish Success: This was the war between France and Spain in order to unite the two states
under one ruler, Phillip V.

Albany Congress: A conference in the United States Colonial history form June 19 through July 11, 1754
in Albany New York. It advocated a union of the British colonies for their security and defense against
French Held by the British Board of Trade to help cement the loyalty of the Iroquois League. After
receiving presents, provisions and promises of Redress of grievances. 150 representatives if tribes
withdrew without committing themselves to the British cause.

Iroquois: any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state.

New France: French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded 1608. New France fell to
the British in 1763.

Proclamation of 1763: A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from
settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the
mountains to move back east; ignored.

Cajun: A descendant of French pioneers, chiefly in Louisiana, who in 1755 chose to leave Acadia rather
than live under the British Crown.

Edict of Nantes: issued 1598 by the crown of France.  It granted limited religious freedom to French
Protestants, and stopped religious wars between the Protestants and Catholics.

Coureurs des Bois: Runners of the woods, i.e. French fur trappers made money and destroyed
environment; fought British colonists in William’s, Anne’s War (Austrian, Spanish Succession)

Jesuits: French Catholic missionaries, labored with much enthusiasm to convert the Indians to
Christianity and to save them from the fur trappers.
 
Salutary Neglect:  Throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the English government did not
enforce those trade laws that most harmed the colonial economy. The purpose of salutary neglect was
to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North
America. The English ceased practicing salutary neglect following British victory in the French and Indian
War.

War of Jenkin’s Ear (1739-1743): Land squabble between Britain and Spain over Georgia and trading
rights. Battles took place in the Caribbean and on the Florida/Georgia border. The name comes from a
British captain named Jenkin, whose ear was cut off by the Spanish.