What were the five (later six) Iroquois nations that formed the Iroquois Confederacy in 1570.
Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (Tuscarora)
What did the Iroquois Confederacy create?
Created a system of laws, protected the rituals and traditions of individual tribes.
What was an essential tool to the Iroquois?
Diplomacy
What territory did the Iroquois control by the end of the 1600s?
They controlled a territory stretching from Maine to Illinois and as far south as Tennessee
Why did the arrival of Europeans make the Iroquiois more powerful?
They controlled the fur trade, exchanging beaver pelts for a variety of goods, including guns
Under his orders from Virginia Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddle, what were Colonel Washington and his troops attempting to do in 1753 when they were forced to retreat by the French?
In 1753 to defend a British fort being built by Captain William Trent at the forks of the Ohio River
What fort did the French build, at the forks of the Ohio River, to replace the fort built by British Captain William Trent?
The fort was Fort Duquesne
Why was Iroquois Chief, Half- King determined to aid the British in their conflict with the French?
Captured his family when he was a child and murdered his father.
Who was Joesph Coulon de Jumonville, and why was Washington suspicious that his French prisoners were not really peaceful ambassadors?
He was french commander
What happened at Great Meadows on July 3, 1754?
. Sux hundred french soldiers and one hundred of their Native Americans allies surrounded Fort Necessity.
What did Washington mistakenly admit in the document of surrender ?
He admitted to assassinating Jumonville
How did the French use Washington's confession?
They used it as a propaganda and prepared to fight the british
Into what did the little battle of 1754, at the forks of the Ohio River, escalate?
This little war escalated into a full[fledged intercontinental war
What war known as in North America, and what did it evolve into in Europe?
The war was knows as the French and Indian War then evolved into the Seven Years War
. Why had the scales tipped in favor of the British by the end of the 1757?
France had nearly went bankrupt and struggled to support the war.
Who was William Pitt?
He was the new British Secretary of State
How did British General Wolfe manage to get his troops up to the level ground behind Quebec without the French noticing?
They were protected by high cliffs facing the river, Quebec seemed unreachable
What did the British gain in the peace treaty with the French in 1763?
They gained lots of land
What did France give to Britain in the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
The property fo India
What did spain lose to Britain, and what did it receive?
They lose Florida and the Louisiana Territory
What did France get to keep?
. They got to keep its rich sugar producing islands