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Robert Walpole
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Who:a British statesman
When:(26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), Significance: first Prime Minister of Great Britain |
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Privy Council
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What:body that advises the head of state
When:(abolished 1707-1889)[ Significance:a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on affairs of state. |
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Benjamin Franklin
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Who:author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
When:(January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 Significance:discoveries and theories regarding electricity |
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New France
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What:area colonized by France in North America
When:1534 Significance:Treaty of Utrecht |
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Paltry Wages
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Albany Plan
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What: attempt at forming a union of the colonies under one government
When: 1754 Significance:put forth by various delegates of the Albany Congress. |
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French Indian War
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What: the war between Great Britain and France in North America
When: from 1754 to 1763 Significance: the war erupted into the world-wide conflict |
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Louis XIV
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Who:was King of France and of Navarre
When:(5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) Significance:leading European power, engaging in three major wars |
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Missionary Zeal
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Louis Joliet
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Who:a French Canadian explorer
When:(September 21, 1645–1700 Significance:discoveries in North America |
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Father Jacques Marquette
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Who:a French Jesuit missionary
When:(June 10, 1637 – May 18, 1675)[ Significance:founded Michigan's first European settlement |
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Rene Robert Cavalier
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Who:a French explorer
When:(November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687) Significance:explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico, claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France. |
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The Iroquios Confederacy
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What:association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America
When:16th century Significance:embodied in the Grand Council, an assembly of fifty hereditary sachems.[ |
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King William War
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What:first of the French and Indian Wars
When:(1689–97) Significance:ended the war between the two colonial powers |
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Fort Necessity
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What: Battle of the Great Meadows
When: July 3, 1754 Significance:tThe First battles of the French and Indian War and George Washington's only military surrender. |
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William Pitt
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Who:British politician
When:(28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) Significance:youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 |
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Siege of Quebec
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What: Battle of Quebec
When:December 31, 1775 Significance:battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans |
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Peace of Paris 1763
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What:Treaty
When:signed on 10 February 1763 Significance:ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. |
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Proclamation of 1763
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What:purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire
When:was issued October 7, 1763 Significance:stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier |
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Greenville Ministry
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Sugar Act
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What:was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
When:April 5, 1764 Significance:expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom |
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Currency Act
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What:several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued
When:1751 Significance:help pay for military expenses during the French and Indian Wars |
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Paxton Boys
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What:a vigilante group that murdered twenty Native Americans
When: December 14, 1763 Significance:response to fear and hatred of the American Indian |
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Regulatory Movement
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What:was a North Carolina uprising
When:1764 to 1771 Significance:citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials, historians consider it a catalyst |
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Stamp Act
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What:direct tax
When: 1765 Significance: purpose to raise money to pay troops stationed in North America. |
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Virginia Resolves
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What:a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia General Assembly in response to the Stamp Act of 1765
When: end of 1765 Significance:The resolves claimed that in accordance with long established British law, Virginia was subject to taxation only by a parliamentary assembly to which Virginians themselves elected representatives |
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Sons of Liberty
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What: a political group made-up of American Patriots
When:1765 Significance:designed to incite change in the British government's treatment of the Colonies |
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The Tory's
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Mutiny Act
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What: actpassed by Parliament for governing the British Army
When:1689 Significance: rsponse to the mutiny of a large portion of the army, stayed loyal to the Start about William IIItaking the crown of England |
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Quartering Act
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What: two acts of the Parliament of Great Britain
When:18th century Significance: Act of 1765-forced British Americans to payfor quartering and provisioning of troops ; violated Bill of Rights 1689; Act of1774-passed in June 2, 1774-group of lawsthat becamce known as Intolerable Acts:designed to restoe imperial control over the American colonies |
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Townshend Act
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What:Acts
When: 1767 Significance: purpose to raise revenue int he colonies to pay the salaries og governors and judges-punish province of New York for failing with the Quarenting Act-establish the precedent that the British Parliament had th eright to taxthe colonies-- resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770. |
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Navigation Act
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What: seiries laws
When: started in 1651 Significance: resticked the use of foreign shippong for trade betwwen England and it's colonies |
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Boston Massacre
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What:incident that led to the deaths of five civilans at the hands of British troops
When: March 5, 1770 Significance:helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated inthe American Revolutionary War |
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Samuel Adams
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Who: was a stateman, political philosopher and one founding Fathers of the United States
when: Sept. 2, 1722---October 2, 1803 Significance: leader of American and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. Second cousin to President John Adams. |
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Loyalists
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What: American colonists
When: 18 th century Significance: remained loyal to the Kingdom of Geat Britain during A.R war-supported the revolution |
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Gaspee Incident
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What: lead-up to the American Revolution
When: June 9, 1772, Significance:lead-up to the American Revolution,Previous attacks by the colonials on British naval vessels had gone unpunished |
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Tea Act
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What:an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to expand the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price
When:May 10, 1773. Significance:act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies |
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Daughters of Liberty
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Who:a successful Colonial American group
When: 1774 Significance: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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What:a direct action by colonists in Boston
When:December 16, 1773, Significance: group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor,incident remains an iconic event of American history |
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Coercive Acts
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What:a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament
When:1774 Significance:acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. |
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First Continental Congress
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What:a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies
When:September 5, 1774 Significance: Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies |
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John Adams
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Who:American politician and political philosopher and second President of the United States (1797–1801)
When:(October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) Significance:was one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.played a leading role in persuading Congress to declare independence, and assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. |
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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What:first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
When:fought on April 19, 1775 Significance:marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. |
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General Thomas Gage
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Who: a British general
When:(1719 or 1720-April 2, 1787) Significance:known for his role in the early days of the American War of Independence.named its military governor |
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Paul Revere
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Who:an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
When:January 1, 1735 - May 10, 1818 Significance:served as an officer in the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, a role for which he was later exonerated |
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John Dickinson Letters to a farm
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The Massachusetts Circular
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What:was a statement written by Samuel Adams
When:February 1768 Significance:brought tensions between the British Parliament and Massachusetts to a boiling point, and resulted in the military occupation of Boston by the British Army, which contributed to the coming of the American Revolution. |
