Research: Use Reference Materials Or the Internet to Answer the Following Questions
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Name:______January 27, 2014
The French and Indian War
Research: Use reference materials or the Internet to answer the following questions.
Please answer with numbering sequence on separate sheet of paper
1) In what year did the French and Indian War begin?
2) What two European powers fought against each other in the French and Indian War?
3) What global war took place at the same time as the French and Indian War?
4) What is this global war known as in Canada?
5) Who served as prime minister of Britain from 1756 to 1761?
6) Who led the expedition against Duquesne in 1755?
7) Who was the General that took Fort Duquesne in 1758?
8) What did the British do to Fort Duquesne?
9) What U.S. city grew around the site of Fort Duquesne?
10) Who was the French commander who held off James Abercromby’s attack on Fort Carillon in 1758?
11) What was Fort Carillon renamed?
12) Who was the British army officer that replaced James Abercromby as supreme commander in America during the war?
13) Who was the British brigadier general that captured Lighthouse Point during the Siege of Louisbourg?
14) When did the Siege of Louisbourg end?
15) Who led the British force that captured Fort Niagara in 1759?
16) During what battle did Quebec fall to the British?
17) In what year did the French and Indian War end?
18) Which treaty ended the Seven Years’ War?
19) What country lost control of Canada at the end of the war?
20) What country gained control of Canada at the end of the war?
Date Due: January 30, 2014
Helpful links: http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war (History Channel) http://www.pbs.org/thewarthatmadeamerica/timeline.html (PBS) http://www.ncdcr.gov/FrenchandIndianWarInteractive.aspx (Interactive web site) KEY
1) 1754
2) Great Britain and France
3) the Seven Years’ War
4) the War of the Conquest
5) William Pitt
6) Edward Braddock
7) General John Forbes
8) They burned it.
9) Pittsburgh
10) Louis Joseph de Montcalm
11) Fort Ticonderoga
12) Jeffery Amherst
13) James Wolfe
14) July 26, 1758
15) Sir William Johnson
16) the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
17) 1763
18) the Treaty of Paris (1763)
19) France
20) Great Britain