Question: What started the French and Indian War?

Answer: British settlers pushed west into French and Native American lands

Question: The French were building a fort between the Monogahela and Ohio River called__________________.

Answer: Fort Duquesne

Question: What was the Albany Congress?

Answer: A meeting of colonial leaders and local Iroquois tribes called by the British to form an alliance against the French

Question: The governor of Virginia sent ________________________ to lead a militia to order the French out.

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Cumberland Gap

Answer: discovered by Dr. Thomas Walker a passage way in the Appalachian Mountains