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Robert Walpole
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was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Privy council
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A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation concerning the exercise of executive authority, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.
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Benjamin Franklin
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April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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New France
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area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River, by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to Spain and Britain in 1763.
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Paltry Wages
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extremely low wages that the colonists had to work around
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Albany Plan
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1754 Benjamin proposed. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes"
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French Indian War
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war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. one in a series of wars fought between England and France beginning in the late 1600s.
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Louis XIV
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known as the Sun King. For much of Louis's reign, France stood as the leading European power, engaging in three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession
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Missionary Zeal
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A sudden increase in the momentum for the French Conservative Churches
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Louis Joliet
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a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America
September 21, 1645–1700 |
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Father Jacques Marquette
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was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
June 10, 1637 – May 18, 1675 |
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Rene Robert Cavalier
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(November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region
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The Iroquois Confederacy
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The original five nations of the Confederacy were divided into two groups: the Elders,and the Younger. It was a sophisticated political and social system.
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King Williams War
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(1689–97) was the name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance (1688–97).
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Fort Necessity
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summer 1754, opening action of the French and Indian War, clash of British, French and American Indian cultures, ended with the removal of French power from North America.
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William Pitt
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(28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Siege of Quebec
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Siege that ended any French hopes of victory in the French and Indian Wars, dooming their north American colonies.
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Peace of Paris 1763
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The Treaty of Paris, 1763, was signed on February 10th 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
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Proclamation of 1763
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The proclamation provided that all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists.
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Greenville Ministry
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The Greenville ministry made a number of the efforts to increase England's control of the colonies.
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Sugar Act
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1764 Act that put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine.
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Currency Act
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The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. Parliament favored a "hard currency" system based on the pound sterling, but was not inclined to regulate the colonial bills.
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Paxton Boys
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The Paxton Boys was a vigilante group that murdered twenty Native Americans in events sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre.
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Regulatory Movement
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uprising, lasting from approximately 1764 to 1771, where citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials.
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Stamp Act
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The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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Virginia Resolves
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The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia General Assembly in response to the Stamp Act of 1765.
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Sons Of Liberty
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Political group made up of American Patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies
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The Tory’s
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The term Tory or Loyalist was used in the American Revolution to describe those who remained loyal to the British Crown. Since early in the eighteenth century, Tory had described those upholding the right of the Kings over parliament.
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Mutiny Act
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It was originally passed in 1689 in response to the mutiny of a large portion of the army which stayed loyal to the Stuarts upon William III taking the crown of England
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Quartering Act
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The Act was created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies.
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Townshend Act
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The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial control
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Navigation Act
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series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651
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Boston Massacre
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an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion
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Samuel Adams
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September 27 [September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was a statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Loyalists
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American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during the American Revolutionary War.
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Patriots
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also known as American Whigs, Revolutionaries, Congress-Men or Rebels) was the name the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies
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Gaspee Incident
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In a notorious act of defiance, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship.
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Tea Act
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passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston.
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Daughters of Liberty
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a successful Colonial American group that consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.
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Boston Tea Party
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On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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Coercive Acts
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a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance
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First Continental Congress
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convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774
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John Adams
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(October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American politician and political philosopher and the second President of the United States
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
1775 marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies |
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General Thomas Gage
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1719-1787,
was a British general and colonial governor in America |
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Paul Revere
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1735-1818
He was celebrated after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord |
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John Dickinson Letters to a farmer
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In a series of fourteen letters widely published in late 1767 and early 1768, John Dickinson counsels leaders on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean
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The Massachusetts Circular
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statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts.
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