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48 Cards in this Set
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Robert Walpole
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*the first prime minster
*first lord of treasury |
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privy council
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*advertise the head of state
*was a comity of the monarchs advisers |
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Benjamin franklin
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*one f he fathers of the declaration of independence
*also lead the revoultion |
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New France
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*an area that France colonized in north America
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Paltry Wages
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*people would be paid in food
*there was a revolt against this |
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Albany Plan
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*attempted to make a union of the colonies
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French Indian War
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*was a war between great britian and the French
*during 1754-1763 |
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Louis XIV
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*he became king at the age of 7
*he believed that kings had divine right to rule |
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Missionary Zeal
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*was an insititiuon to control the people
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Louis Joliet
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*French Canadian explorer
*also a catholic priest |
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Father Jacques Marquette
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*founded saint Ignace's Michigan's
*reunited the Illinois territory |
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Rene Robert Cavalier
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*French explorer
*claimed the entire basin of the Mississippi river |
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The Iroquois Confederacy
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*are a tribe
*they promoted power and peace |
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King Williams War
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*was called the war of the grand alliances
*it was england France Canada new england and Indians |
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Fort Necessity
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*a historical landmark
*during the French and Indian war |
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William Pitt
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*the prime minster
*a part of the French revolution *youngest prime minster |
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Siege of Quebec
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*first major battle that the Americans lost
*battle between British defenders and the continental army |
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Peace of Paris 1763
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*had peace of 3 years
*yielded the expansion of the British |
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Proclamation of 1763
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*end of the French and Indian war
*exclude territory |
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Greenville Ministry
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*place where the Christian missionary's would meet
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Sugar Act
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*passed by parliament
*put taxes with out representation on any product that had sugar or just sugar |
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Currency Act
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*since there was no gold coins and they where running out of money
*people could only trade with currency |
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Paxton Boys
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*a vigilante group that murdered 20 Indians which was known as the Conestoga massacre
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Regulatory Movement
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*2 separate groups in north Carolan that tried to change the government in it
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Stamp Act
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*great Britain passed a tax that all legal documents needed s stamp
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Virginia Resolves
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*pre revolution act where the people would oppose the stamp act and other recent acts
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Sons Of Liberty
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*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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*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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*an act passed yearly by Parliament for governing the British Army
*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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*Parliament of Great Britain. These Quartering Acts were used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British soldiers had housing and provisions.
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Townshend Act
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*five laws are 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
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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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*was a statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Loyalists
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American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain and the British monarchy during the American Revolutionary War.
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Patriots
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*someone who prides there country and is willingly to give up many things for it
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Gaspee Incident
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*act of defiance, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship
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Tea Act
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*when the British government put heavy taxes on tea and only could buy it from them
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Daughters of Liberty
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*Colonial American group that 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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*because of rising tensions and the tea act the colonists took hold of one of the British ships and threw the tea over bored
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Coercive Acts
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*The 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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*The Congress met to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; publishing a list of rights and grievances; and petitioning King George for redress of those grievances.
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John Adams
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*an 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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*were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
*They were fought on April 19, 1775 |
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General Thomas Gage
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*was sent to capture Jefferson and also to capture Sam Adams
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Paul Revere
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*an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
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John Dickinson Letters to a farmer
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*was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware
*He was a militia officer during the American Revolution |
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The Massachusetts Circular
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*statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives
*Reactions to the letter brought tensions between the British Parliament and Massachusetts to a boiling point |
