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48 Cards in this Set
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who was Robert Walpole???
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-the first modern minister
-restrained from strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts what -believed that relaxed trading would stimulate commerce |
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what was the privy council???
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-the central administrative agency for the government as a whole
-they were the admiralty and the treasury |
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who was Benjamin Franklin???
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-edit the declaration of inde.
-scientific -represented his colony and Georgia, New Jersey & Massachusetts |
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what was New France???
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-french empire that
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what were Paltry Wages???
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-poor wages British soldiers were given
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what was the Albany Plan???
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-Benjamin Franklin wanted to aligned the colonies together
-never passed |
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What was the french and Indian War???
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-war between the Indian aligned w/British and went against the French
-lasted 9 years |
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who was Louis the XIV???
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-king of france
-longest reign in European history (1643-1715) -brought absolute monarchy to its height, established a glittering court at Versailles |
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what was missionary zeal??
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who was Louis Joliet?
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-french explorer
-Father Jacques Marquette journeyed together from Green Bay to end of Mississippi River |
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who was Father Jacques Marquette?
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-traveled together w/ louis joliet from Green Bay to end of Mississippi River
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Who was Rene Robert Cavalier?
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-went to delta of Mississippi river,claimed surrounding territory
-named it Louisiana in honor of the King |
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what was the Iroquois Cofederacy??
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-most powerful native group consisted w/tribes
-formed an alliance with eachother -were forced to have a close relationship with the English and the Dutch |
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what was King Williams War???
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-(1689-1697)
-produced indecisive clashes between French & English in northern New England |
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what happened in Fort Necessity?
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-the governor of Virginia sent a surprise attack on the French
-the attack unsuccessful -countered the attack and trapeds soliders |
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who was William Pitt???
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-English secretary of state
-transformed war effort in America -bringing first time under British control -planned military strategy -appointed military commanders |
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what happened in the Siege of Quebec??
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-James Wolfe surprised attacked the French in Quebec
-taken over in September 13 1759 –Sept 1760, French surrendered |
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what was the Peace of Paris 1763??
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- Great Britain, France and Spain,Portugal in agreement
- ended French and Indian War/Seven Years' War -treaty marked beginning of extensive period of British dominance outside Europe |
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what was Proclamation of 1763?
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-established or defined four new colonies
-allowed London rather provincial govt. to control westward movement |
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what was the Greenville Ministry?
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-increase its authority in colonies direct ways
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what was the sugar act?
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-eliminate illegal Sugar trade between continental colonies & French and Spanish west Indies
-strengthen enforcement of the duty on sugar |
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what was the Currency Act 1764?
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-required colonial assemblies issuing paper money & retire on schedule paper money in circulation
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who were the Paxton Boys??
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-1763 band of people western Pennsylvania known as
-descended in Philadelphia -demanded relief from colonial taxes |
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what was Regulatory Movement?
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-1771 small scales Civil War
in North Carolina -regulators were farmers |
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what was the stamp act?
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-impose tax on printed documents colonies newspapers, pamphlets etc.
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what happened in Virginia Resolves?
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-henry had resolutions that Amercans had same righta as Eng. (had others)
-house burgesses defeated the most extreme but still printed all of them |
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who were the Son's of Liberty?
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-political group made up of American Patriots
-designed to incite change in the British gov. treatment of the Colonies in the years following the end of the French and Indian War |
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who were the Tory's??
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what was the mutiny act?
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-required the colonists to provide quarters and supplies for the British troops in America
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what was the Quartering Act??
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-required the colonists to provide quarters and supplies for the British troops in America
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what was the Townshend Act?
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-series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain
-provoked the "letters to a farmer" |
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what were the Navigation Acts?
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- series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies
-started in 1651 |
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what happened in the Boston Masscre??
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-night of March 5 1770,
-crowd of dockworkers and others began pelting the sentries at the customs house with rocks and snowballs -soldiers was knocked down, apparently several British soldiers fired into the crowd killing 5 people |
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who was Samuel Adams at this time?
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-most effective radical in the colonies
-proposed the creation of a "committee of correspondence" in Boston to publicize the grievances against England throughout the colony |
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who were the Loyalists??
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-the people who believed that the power should be in England
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who were the Patriots during the war??
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-the Americans
-fought aganist the loyalists -wanted america to be idependent |
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what happened durng the Gaspee Incident?
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-A British revenue ship &b/c john Dickinson letters, there was idea of British being unfair in colonists go and burn down ship
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what was the tea act??
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-the taxtion of the American colonists w/out their consent on tea
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who were the "daughters of liberty"?
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-women's informal organization
-women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts |
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what happened at the Boston Tea Party??
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-50 men dressed as Mohawk went aboard 3 ships and dumped 3 chests of tea in the harbor
-Boston people refused to pay for the stuff destroyed |
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what were the Coercive Acts???
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-Parliament followed the acts
-was to provide a civil government |
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what happned during the First Continental Congress??
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-made a list of greivness, created a military, formed the continental Association
-got ready for war |
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who was John Adams??
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-rebel leader during the Revoltion
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what happened at Battle of Lexington and Concord??
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-night of April 18, 1775 General Gage send a 1,000 soldiers on the road to Lexington and Concord
-wanted to surprise colonists, seize illegal supplies without bloodshed -patriots watched the British movement closely -Paul Revere and William Dawes warned villages and farms -when British arrived Minutemen awaited them -shots fired 8 died, 10 wounded |
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who is General Thomas Gage?
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-commander of the British garrison
-had orders from the King to arrest the rebel leaders |
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who is Paul Revere and why he imortant?
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-he and William Dawes warned villages and farms that the British are coming
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what was John Dickinson Letters to a farmer??
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-John Dickinson defended the idea of no taxation w/out representation
-the tax people w/out their consent violated English law |
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what is The Massachusetts Circular???
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-was provoked by the Townshend Act
-statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts. |