APUSH - Ch. 6 & 7 – Terms 2026 Exam
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Huguenots - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔French Protestant dissenters, they were
granted limited toleration under the Edict of Nantes; after king Louis XIV
outlawed Protestantism in 1685, many Huguenots fled elsewhere, including
to British North America
Edict of Nantes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1598; decree issued by the French crown
granting limited toleration to French Protestants; ended religious wars in
France and inaugurated a period of French preeminence in Europe and
across the Atlantic; its repeal in 1685 prompted a fresh migration of
Protestant Huguenots to North America
, Coureurs de bois(voyageurs) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔translated as "runners of the
woods," they were French fur-trappers, also known as "voyageurs"
(travelers), who established trading posts throughout North America; the fur
trade wreaked havoc on the health and folkways of their Native American
trading partners
King William's War - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1689-1697; war fought largely
between French trappers, British settlers, and their respective Indian allies;
the colonial theater of the larger War of the League of Ausburg in Europe
Queen Anne's War - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1702-1713; second in a series of
conflicts between the European powers for control of North America, fought
between the English and French colonists in the North, and the English and
Spanish in Florida; under the peace treaty, the French ceded Acadia (Nova
Scotia), Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay to Britain
War of Jenkins's Ear - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔began in 1739; small-scale clash
between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and in the buffer colony,
Georgia; it merged with the much larger War of Austrian Succession in
1742
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
Huguenots - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔French Protestant dissenters, they were
granted limited toleration under the Edict of Nantes; after king Louis XIV
outlawed Protestantism in 1685, many Huguenots fled elsewhere, including
to British North America
Edict of Nantes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1598; decree issued by the French crown
granting limited toleration to French Protestants; ended religious wars in
France and inaugurated a period of French preeminence in Europe and
across the Atlantic; its repeal in 1685 prompted a fresh migration of
Protestant Huguenots to North America
, Coureurs de bois(voyageurs) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔translated as "runners of the
woods," they were French fur-trappers, also known as "voyageurs"
(travelers), who established trading posts throughout North America; the fur
trade wreaked havoc on the health and folkways of their Native American
trading partners
King William's War - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1689-1697; war fought largely
between French trappers, British settlers, and their respective Indian allies;
the colonial theater of the larger War of the League of Ausburg in Europe
Queen Anne's War - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1702-1713; second in a series of
conflicts between the European powers for control of North America, fought
between the English and French colonists in the North, and the English and
Spanish in Florida; under the peace treaty, the French ceded Acadia (Nova
Scotia), Newfoundland, and Hudson Bay to Britain
War of Jenkins's Ear - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔began in 1739; small-scale clash
between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean and in the buffer colony,
Georgia; it merged with the much larger War of Austrian Succession in
1742
