Learn: American Colonial History: French and Indian War to 1763

Amateur

Inexperienced person

Grievance

Complaint about unfairness

Redress

Fix a wrong

Autonomy

Self-government

Anglo~American

English colonist in America

Francophile

Person who admires France

Militiamen

Volunteer civilian soldiers

Commerce

Buying and selling; trade

Deist

Believes in a creator but not divine intervention

Oligarchical

Controlled by a small group

Republican

Government by elected representatives

Legislation

Laws made by government

Brethren

Brothers or fellow members

Calamity

Major disaster

Astute

Clever and perceptive

French and Indian War

War between Britain and France in North America

George Washington

young Virginia officer who led British colonial troops against the French

Edward Braddock

British general defeated by the French

Albany Plan of Union

Plan to unite the colonies

Peace of Paris Treaty

ending the Seven Years' War

Salutary Neglect

Loose British control of colonies

Empire

Country controlling other territories

American Indians

Indigenous peoples of North America

Pontiac's Rebellion

Native resistance to British rule

Proclamation of 1763

Banned colonial settlement west of Appalachians