French and Indian War and Road to Revolution Notes

Vocabulary flashcards covering the key individuals, events, acts, and locations from Lessons 1 and 2 of the French and Indian War and pre-Revolutionary American history notes.

Ohio River

A river that provided a vital link between French claims of land along the Great Lakes and French settlements along the Mississippi River.

Joseph Brant

A Mohawk chief named Thayendanegea who was known to the British as Joseph Brant and became a valuable ally for the British.

Fort Necessity

A makeshift fort quickly built in the Ohio Valley by George Washington and his soldiers to help defend themselves from the French.

Albany Plan of Union

A plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies.

William Pitt

British prime minister who made winning the war in North America his first job.

Fort Duquesne

A French fort seized by the British and renamed Fort Pitt, where the city of Pittsburgh later grew up.

Quebec

The capital city of New France.

Pontiac

An Ottawa chief who led violent raids against British forts, leading to hundreds of British people being tortured and killed.

Proclamation of 1763

A royal decree that drew an imaginary line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains, forbidding colonists to settle west of the line and ordering settlers already there to remove themselves at once.

Seven Years' War

The global war that included the French and Indian War and plunged Britain deeply into debt.

Sugar Act

A British act that put a new tax on molasses.

Stamp Acts of 1765

British taxes placed on legal documents such as wills, diplomas, marriage papers, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice.

Declaratory Act

An act asserting that Parliament possessed the right to raise taxes on the colonies in all cases whatsoever.

Townshend Acts

Acts passed by Parliament that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.

Sons of Liberty

A group of angry colonists who organized to protest British policies.

Daughters of Liberty

A group of female colonial protesters who boycotted British cloth.

Quartering Act

An act requiring colonists to provide housing, candles, bedding, and beverages to British soldiers stationed in the colonies.

Paul Revere

A colonist who created an engraving depicting British soldiers firing on unarmed colonists.

Crispus Attucks

One of the five colonists killed by British soldiers at the Boston Massacre.