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57 Cards in this Set
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Siege de La Salle |
Navigated the length of the Mississippi River and claimed Louisiana |
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England - British colonies had |
Nova Scotia New found land Hudson Bay Area |
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France had ... |
New France and Louisiana |
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Spain had ... |
Florida and new Spain |
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European/colonial wars (1689 through 1763) |
These wars are fought to maintain power always between England and France |
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1689-1697 war of the league of Augsburg/king Williams war -treaty of Ryswick |
Reestablish balance of power between England and France/no territorial exchange and King William was recognized as the official ruler of England |
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1702-1713 war of Spanish Succession / queen Anne's war Peace of Utrecht (1713) |
North American Territories ceded by France to England ( Nova Scotia, new found land , and Hudson Bay ) ; Spanish concession to England 4800 slaves 30 years |
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1739-1748 War of Jenkins Ear |
fought between Spain and England |
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1744-1748 War of Austrian Succession / king George war - Treaty of Aix-la- chapelle (1748) |
New England colonists seize French for Louisbourg in 1745, but return to France in the peace treaty in exchange for the outpost madras |
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Albany Congress |
Members of the Iroquois league met with representatives from seven British colonies at the Albany conference June 1754, convincing Indians to remain neutral |
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Enlightenment |
Philosophical movement devoted to the reason and knowledge that attempted to discern a universal system of laws that governed nature and human society |
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Gang system |
Slaves labored and smaller units about 5 to 10 people and were driven By anby an overseer. Saves had less autonomy |
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Methodists |
Members of the Christian movement started by John Wesley. Blending element of moravianism and Anglicanism
Advocates abolition of slavery |
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Moravians |
Created small, closed, sex segregated cultivated piety and practiced Christian Rituals daily |
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Ohio company of Virginia |
After Iroquois ceded the colony granted 300,000 acres to OCOV = wealthy planters |
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Plantation act of 1740 |
Granted to any non-Catholic live in the British North America for a least seven years, received communion at the protestant church, swore allegiance to the king, and paid two shillings |
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Seven years war (French andIndian war) |
War between Great Britain and France, which was allied with spain and numerous Indian groups British victory |
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Stono rebellion |
In 1739 a Group of newly arrived slaves seeking sanctuary in Spanish Florida, started the stono rebellion in South Carolina. The slave gained recruits, burned homes, and killed 20 before whites revolt |
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Navigation acts |
Act that regulated and tax colonial trade. However, with the policy of salutary neglect and colonists defiance, the laws had a rarely been enforced or obeyed. |
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Olive branch petition |
Three months after the military conflict had begun, the Continental Congress sent the olive branch petition to the king George July 1775, asking him to settle the conflict |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
Responding to Pontiacs rebellion, King George issue that proclamation of 1763 the Prohibiting settlement and land sales west of the Appalachian mountains |
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Sons of liberty |
Originally formed to protest the stamp act, they organized crowd actions and consumer boycotts, wrote petitions and pamphlets, and communicated and coordinated protest across the colonies |
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Stamp act |
Passed in 1765 the stamp act tax, paper, documents, newspapers, playing cards etc. colonists protested it through crowd action |
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Townshend Act |
1767 Parliament passed this act which tax tea, paper, lead, glass, and paint and also continued there earlier tax on molasses |
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Articles of Confederation |
First constitution of the United States. Created a central government that gave the Congress no power to tax citizens and required a unanimous vote for any changes to the articles. The articles did allow Congress warmaking powers and control of the military |
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Balance of power |
Enlightenment ideas that afforded check and balances in the government by dividing into different branches. Executive, judiciary, and legislative branches |
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Camp followers |
20,000 women accompanied the Army during the Revolution as camp followers much of the cooking laundry and nursing to the commen solider |
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Coverture |
The law of coverture put women in any property they owned legally under the total control of their husband after marriage |
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Task system |
A method of organize slave labor in agriculture, slaves were given a defined work assignment for the day. When they completed their obligations the time was their own |
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Federalism |
A governmental system where sovereignty is divided between a central authority and Constitutive administrative units, as in the governing relationship between the state and federal government in the United States |
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Federalist papers |
Alexander Hamilton, John jay, James Madison, wrote the Federalist papers a series of essays that explains Defended the Constitution. These essays were published anonymously in newspapers, pamphlets, and books during the ratifying process. |
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League of armed neutrality |
After the British navy captured civil ship the longing to the non-belligerent that were trading with United States during the revolution Catherine the great created the league of armed neutrality to protect neutral shipping |
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Popular sovereignty |
The politicly principle that Legitimacy of the government, In the case of the United States, states and national governments reside in the consent of people |
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Republican motherhood |
Refers to the believe that emerged during the revolutionary era that woman had the responsibility to raise your children to become good Republican citizens |
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Republicanism |
The dominant political ideology of the revolutionary, embrace liberty and jealousy guarded against the rise of tyranny. Required citizens to be virtuous, setting aside their own interest for the good of the community, and transformed society as well as politics. |
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Separation of powers |
Balance in government between the executive, judicial, and legislative powers. |
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Shays rebellion |
Led by Revolutionary veteran Daniel Shays, this was the largest armed uprising during the wave of the resistance to the state and county enforcement of debts. Shays and his supporters shut down courts across Western Massachusetts in 1786. Concern about this and similar uprisings like to Constitutional convention. |
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Tories |
Called Tories by the patriots, loyalist constituted about 20 percent of the population during the war |
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Treaty of Paris |
Signed in February 1763, Treaty of Paris and it's a seven-year war in reshuffled the political boundaries of the North America, including granting the British control of Florida and Canada |
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Boston massacre |
Tension between British soldiers and Boston citizens erupted on March 5, 1770, in the Boston massacre after a crowd began harassing a British Sentry. Eight soldiers responded by firing into the crowd killing five |
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Boston tea party |
December 16, 1773, after government governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow three ships carrying tea to leave Boston Harbor without paying the duty under the tea act, 50 man dressed as Indians climbed aboard the ship and dump 90,000 pounds of tea into the water |
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Coercive Act ( intolerable act ) |
Close Boston Harbor, we organize Massachusetts government, imposed new quartering rules and oil control of local courts and instated as governor of the colony. |
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Declaration of independence |
Written by Thomas Jefferson and pass by the Continental Congress, delineated grievances and asserted American independence and sovereignty. It was issued to the public on July 4, 1776 |
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First Continental Congress |
In response to the coercive act, representatives from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774. There, the first Continental Congress petitioned the king to remedy their grievances. |
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Minute men |
After powder raids outside Boston, militia in Massachusetts and Connecticut prepared to respond to British troop movement have a moment notice |
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Molasses act |
After George Greenville became Prime Minister in April 1763, he moved to raise revenue from the colonies and enforce existing trade regulations. A tax on importation of molasses that had been ignored by colonist |
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Colonial view on British taxation |
Parliament had the power to legislate for regulate of colonial trade but had no right to levy taxes, which were a gift granted by the people through there representatives Based on writing from the enlightenment thinker john locke |
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Richard Montgomery |
Was killed leading an invasion of Quebec |
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What was one of the significant outcomes of the Pontiac rebellion? |
It led to the issuance of the proclamation of 1763 |
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The stamp act congress was |
A gathering of representatives from nine colonies in 1765 |
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Regulators in North Carolina took up arms against imperial officials who |
Tried to enforce legal judgements against them |
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Lord north decided in 1770 to |
Repeal all townshed duties except that on tea |
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The tea act |
Actually lowered tea in the colonies |
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The Quebec act |
Further agitated Protestants in New England |
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Patriots use the term "slavery" to describe their oppression under British policies |
Indicated the degree to which they feared the British government |
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Governor Dunmore of Virginia |
Offered freedom to slaves who joined the British |
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Teodoro de croix was significant because he |
Was appointed the first governor of the interior provinces |
