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48 Cards in this Set
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Robert Walpole
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He was the first prime minister of Great Britain. During the reign of George I and George II, he obtained the post of First Lord of the Treasury.
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Privy Council
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A body that advises the head of state of a nation concerning the exercise of executive authority. The word privy means private or secret.
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Benjamin Franklin
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He was one of the founding fathers of the United States. He was also an author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He was a major figure in the American Enlightenment.
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New France
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It was an area colonized by in North America by the French during the period of exploration. This area was explored by Jacques Cartier in 1534.
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Paltry Wages
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A worthless pay that many workers received during the time they work. Many of this low payments led to the anger of the people.
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Albany Plan
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It was a plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany congress in 1754. It was a plan to unite all the colonies under one government, during the French and Indian war.
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French and Indian War
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It was a war between the French and their Indian allies and Great Britain and the Indian allies. It was stared by a dispute for territory between the settlers.
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Louis XIV
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He was also known as the Sun King. He reign France from 1643 to his death in 1715. He was succeeded by his grandson Louis XV.
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Missionary Zeal
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Religious was used as a tool to justify individual goals and to provide society with the justification for slavery.
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Louis Jolliet
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He was a French Canadian explore. He and a Catholic priest were known for mapping much of the Mississippi River in 1673.
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Father Jacques Marquette
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He was also known as Père Marquett. He was a French Jesuit missionary who founded the first European settlement Sault Ste. Marie.
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Rene Robert Cavalier
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He was also a French explore. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Iroquois Confederacy
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The Iroquois Confederacy was a sophisticated political and social system. The original five nations of the Confederacy were divided into two groups: the Elders, consisting of the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Seneca; and the Younger, the Oneida and the Cayuga.
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King Williams War
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The first of the French and Indian Wars, King William's War was the name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance. It was fought between England, France, and their respective American Indian allies in the colonies of Canada, Acadia, and New England.
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Fort Necessity
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The fort that was being defended by George Washington and his troop from the French. They battle lasted three days until Washington surrender because he was out of supplies and because he lost many men during that battle.
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William Pitt
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He was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783.
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Siege of Quebec
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The British troops attacked the French in the city of Quebec by surprise, defeating the French forces. This marked the end of the French and Indian War.
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Peace of Paris 1763
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This treaty was signed in February 10, 1763, which officially ended the French and Indian War, and the treaty marked the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside Europe
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Proclamation of 1763
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It was issued October 7, 1763. The purpose was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to 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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A group that emerged as a religious movement in Greenville. This group help establish and spread Christianity throughout the community.
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Sugar Act
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It was issued on April 5, 1764. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced
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Currency Act
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The name of several acts that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency.
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Paxton Boys
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It 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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It was a North Carolina uprising, lasting from approximately 1764 to 1771, where citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials. While unsuccessful, some historians consider it a catalyst to the American Revolutionary War.
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Stamp Act
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It was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. 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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It was 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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It was a 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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It was a traditionalist political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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Mutiny Act
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It was an act passed yearly by Parliament for governing the British Army. 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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These Quartering Acts were 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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They were five laws are frequently mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act
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Navigation Act
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were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies, which started in 1651.
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Boston Massacre
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It was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770. A heavy British military presence in Boston led to a tense situation that boiled over into incitement of brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd.
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Samuel Adams
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He was a statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution.
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Loyalists
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They were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. They were often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men by the Patriots, those who supported the revolution.
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Patriots
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It was the name the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies, who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution, called themselves.
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Gaspée Incident
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When angry residents from Rhode Island board a ship called the Gaspée, set on fire and sank it in the Narragansett Bay.
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Tea Act
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It was a law that put a tax on tea. As a result the colonist boycott British tea and the East India Company was close to going in bankrupt.
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Daughters of Liberty
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They were a group of women that occasionally mocked their male counterparts as insufficiently militant.
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Boston Tea Party
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It was an event on December 16, 1773, when a group of colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians, boarded three ship in the Boston Harbor full of tea, and dumped the tea into the harbor.
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Coercive Acts
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The objective of these laws was to provide a civil government for the French-speaking Roman Catholic inhabitants in Canada and the Illinois country.
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First Continental Congress
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The first continental congress was established in September 1774, and they meet for the first time in Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia.
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John Adams
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He was an American politician and political philosopher. He was one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Many British troops were on their way to arrest a few leaders but the minutemen were waiting for them. The British took an advantage and lead at first, but ended losing three times as many men as the American soldiers. This was the first sounds of war in the colonies. After this event the revolution broke and many other battles occurred.
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General Thomas Gage
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He was 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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He was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He was celebrated after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol.
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John Dickinson Letters to a farmer
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He was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787,
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The Massachusetts Circular
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It was a statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts. Reactions to the letter 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.
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