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38 Cards in this Set
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backcountry
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a geographical region that is:
isolated remote undeveloped difficult to access |
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Great Awakening
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a religious revival in American religious history.
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Fort Duquesne
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a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania.
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King George's War
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the operations in North America that formed part of the 1744–1748 War of the Austrian Succession. It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars.
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Albany Plan
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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"[1] during the French and Indian War.
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Albany Congress
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a meeting of representatives of seven of the British North American colonies in 1754 (specifically, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island). Representatives met daily at Albany, New York from June 19 to July 11 to discuss better relations with the Indian tribes and common defensive measures against the French.
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Seven Years War
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a major military conflict that lasted from 1754 until the conclusion of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris, in 1763. It involved all of the major European powers of the period. Because of its global nature, it has been described as the "first World War".[1] It resulted in some 900,000 to 1,400,000 deaths and significant changes in the balance of power and territories of several of the participants.
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Peace of Paris
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was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.[1] The treaty marked the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside Europe.[2] Notably, the treaty did not involve either Prussia or Austria who signed a separate Treaty of Hubertusburg.
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George Whitefield
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was an Anglican Protestant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in the Kingdom of Great Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies.
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John Edwards
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An influential minister during the Great Awakening/ Preached Calvenism
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Parliament
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a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom/The term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place.
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William Pitt
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British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24
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Gen. Braddock
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a British soldier and commander-in-chief for North America during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763). He is generally best remembered for his command of a disastrous expedition against the French-occupied Ohio Country in 1755, in which he lost his life.
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entrepots
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a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit.
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John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
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Commonwealthmen who penned a series of essays titled Cato's Letters between 1720 and 1723.
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John Locke
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an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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the descendants of Germanic peoples who emigrated to the U.S. (primarily to Pennsylvania), from Germany, Switzerland and The Low Countries prior to 1800.
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Middle Ground
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location where 18th century Indians were settled in the backcountry beyond the Appalachian Mts.
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Gilbert Tennent
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was a religious leader/Tennent was an Irish-born American Presbyterian clergyman, son and brother of three other Presbyterian clergymen.
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Molasses Act
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March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 6 Geo II. c. 13), which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on molasses from non-British colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.
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Charles Chauncey
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was an Anglo-American clergyman and educator.
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Cato's Letter
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essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, first published from 1720 to 1723 under the pseudonym of Cato (95-46 BC), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a famously stubborn champion of republican principles.
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James Davenport
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an American clergyman and itinerant preacher noted for his often controversial actions during the First Great Awakening.
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Old Lights
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intellectualism/tradition/result of Reformation and Enlightenment
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New Lights
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get ppl back in church/emotionalism/blind faith/anti-intellectualism
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Evangelists
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a Christian who explains his or her beliefs to a non-Christian and thereby participates in Evangelism
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Henry Muhlenberg
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was a German Lutheran pastor sent to North America as a missionary, requested by Pennsylvania colonists.
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Cotton Mather
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a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.
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Mestizo
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a traditional term used to denote people of combined Indigenous American and European ancestry.
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Mulatto
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a person with one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry.
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Transportation Act
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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (4 Geo. I cap. 11) long title An Act for the further preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons, and unlawful Exporters of Wool; and for declaring the Law upon some Points relating to Pirates.) that established a seven-year penal transportation to North America as a possible punishment for those convicted of lesser felonies, or as a possible sentence that capital punishment might be commuted to by royal pardon.
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King William's War
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The first of the French and Indian Wars, King William's War (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). It was fought between England, France, and their respective American Indian allies in the colonies of Canada
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Queen Anne's War
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was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England (later Great Britain)[1] in North America for control of the continent.
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King George's War
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is the name given to the operations in North America that formed part of the 1744–1748 War of the Austrian Succession. It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars.
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Navigation Acts
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were a 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. Their goal was to force colonial development into lines favorable to England, and stop colonial trade with the Netherlands and France.
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Benjamin Franklin
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as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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Constitution
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he supreme law of the United States. The Constitution is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.
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Royal Gov. powers
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regulate taxes/grant certain rights and freedoms/lead colonial governments
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