QUIZ 6 - Class 8: Chapter 6b, French-Indian War

What were the political differences between the British and French?

British: Limited autonomy and franchise

French: Autocracy

What were the economic differences between the British and French?

British: Agriculture:

French: Fur

What were the demographic differences between the British and French?

British: Anyone

French: Restrictions

- Huguenots, only French Catholics

What were the Native Policy differences between the British and French?

British: Dual E policy

French: Allies

- Fur trade business partners

Furposts

1. Where beaver pelts were traded

2. Blocked British entry on lakes and the St. Lawrence River

French and Native Trade

1. Weapons

2. Diseases

3. Alcohol

4. Mass beaver killing

Why was Virginia important?

1. The leader of the Southern colonies

2. Most populous colony

3. Hosted real estate people who wanted to expand into the Ohio Valley

- Got involved with Washington

Fort Duquense (1755)

Also known as Pittsburg, named after William Pitt. George Washington helped lead alongside William Pitt and John Wolfe

George Washington

1. Led military expedition to Fort Duquense

2. FFV

3. Slave owner

- Mount Vernon

4. Wasn't allowed to join the British army

Fort Necessity

A last-minute fort built by George Washington, defeating George Washington there. Blocked entry into the Ohio Valley

General Williams Braddock

British war general who was defeated by the French and Natives because he did not know guerilla warfare, there were no internal roads to get to Fort Duquense, and he died.

Conventional Warfare

Flat terrain, face-to-face war. Dependent on geography

Guerilla Warfare

A different, primitive, dirty type of war

1. Enemy attacks - Withdraw

2. Enemy confused - Ambush

3. Enemy rests - Attack

4. Enemy withdraws - Restart process

Albany Congress (1754)

Where the Plan of Union was formed

What did the Plan of Union state?

1. Wanted Iroquois loyalty

2. Colonial Unity

Why did the Plan of the Union not work?

1. Did not come to an agreement with the colonist unity because of sectionalism

2. Physical distance from colonists to Britain

Sectionalism

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole