Chapter 4 Key Terms

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Robert Walpole

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British statesman who is known as being the first Prime Minister of Great Britain

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Privy Council

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a council that advises the head of state of a nation concerning the exercise of executive authority

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Benjamin Franklin

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One of the Founding father of the United States

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New France

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an area colonized by France in North America from 1534 to 1763

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Paltry Wage

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A low and insignificant wage

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Albany Plans

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an attempt at forming a union of the colonies

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French and Indian War

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War between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763

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Louis XIV

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Louis XIV (Sun King) was King of France and of Navarre.

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Missionary Zeal

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SKIP.

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Louis Joliet

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a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America

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Jacques Marquette

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a French Jesuit missionary who founded Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace, Michigan.

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Rene Robert Cavelier

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was a French explorer that explored the Great Lakes region, Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Iroquois Confederacy

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an association of related tribes in the northeastern woodlands.

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King William's War

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Name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance

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Fort Necessity

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one of the 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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a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister

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Siege of Quebec

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SKIP

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Peace of Paris 1763

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ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.

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Proclamation of 1763

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organized Great Britain's new North American empire and stabalized relations with Native North Americans

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Greenville Ministry

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SKIP

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Sugar Act

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An act that placed goods on sugar, wine and other important British goods

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Currency Act

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An act that gave permission to Britain to be in charge of the currency.

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Paxton Boys

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group that murdered twenty Native Americans; sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre

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Regulation Movement

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designation for two groups, one in South Carolina, the other in North Carolina, that tried to effect governmental changes in the 1760s

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Stamp Act

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An act that placed taxes on paper products

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Virginia Resolves

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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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a political group designed to incite change in the British government's treatment of the Colonies in the years following the end of the French and Indian War.

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The Tories

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The Tories were members of two political parties in England, Great Britain and later the UK from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.

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Mutiny Act

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an act passed yearly by Parliament for governing the British Army

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Quartering Act

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used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British soldiers had adequate housing and provisions

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Townshend Act

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used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British soldiers had adequate housing and provisions

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Navigation Acts

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laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies

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Boston Massacre

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incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops

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Samuel Adams

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a statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

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Loyalist

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American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain

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Patriots

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name the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies, who rebelled against British

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Gaspee incident

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American radicals boarded the Gaspee, set it on fire and sank the ship

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Tea Act

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an Act to expand the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price.

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Daughter of Liberty

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group of women who participated in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts

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Boston Tea Party

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Radicals dressed as Indians and boarded the British ship and dumped all the tea into the Boston Harbor

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Intolerable Acts

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five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America

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First Continental Congress

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convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met

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John Adams

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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.

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Thomas Gage

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a British general, best known for his role in the early days of the American War of Independence.

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Paul Revere

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an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.

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Dickinson's letter from a farmr

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Written in protest to the passage of the Townshend Act

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Massachusetts Circular Letter

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statement written by Samuel Adams in response to the Townshend Acts