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| A land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country and to trade with the Indians there |
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| A vast system of mountains in eastern North America; believed to have been the highest mountains on earth roughly 460 million years ago during the Ordovician Period |
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| The dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He was a skilled surveyor who led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775–1783, and presided over the writing of the Constitution in 1787. |
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| George Washington discovered a French outpost at this fort that was established by the French in 1754, in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania. |
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| the French and Indian War |
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| A conflict in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763, that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain and that ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain |
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| One of the Founding Fathers of the United States; held a conference proposing the Albany Plan of Union. |
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| A plan to form a union of the British colonies in North America authored by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson. |
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| a group of Native American peoples inhabiting the woodlands of the Northeast |
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| Also known as the Wyandot, are a tribe of Native Americans who originally inhabited an area of central Ontario |
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| A part of the Iroquois Nation and resided along the areas of what are now Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. |
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| British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 |
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| the Treaty of Paris of 1763 |
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| The treaty that ended the French and Indian War; awarded all of the land up to the Mississippi to the British treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation |
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| The river served first as barrier – forming borders for New Spain, New France, and the early United States – then as vital transportation artery and communications link |
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| A war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763) led by Chief Pontiac. |
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| An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains; banned any new settlements on frontier land. |
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| A trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling, in the British colonies in North America |
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