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Who is Robert Walpole? |
british prime minister who stated that "If no restrictions were placed on the colonies, they would not flourish. |
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Who is Edmund Burke? |
he gave a speech called "Speech or the Conciliation with the colonies" in the House of Commons. |
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What were the causes of the French and Indian War? |
Terrortorial expansion Religion Militarization of Ohio |
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Why did the French and Indian War begin? |
1753, when a young general George Washington headed out to the Ohio Region and to deliver and message to the French telling them to leave. The demand was rejected. |
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Why did he build Fort Necessity? |
George did it so that he would at least have to reckon with English Fortifications.
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What was the Albany Plan of Union? |
Delegates from NY, NE, MD, PA and reps from the six ironoquis nations met in Albany Ny. |
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When was the first war declared? |
1756, called the 7 years war |
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What were the methods of fighting in colonial times? |
inidan style, guerilla |
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What were the british ways of fighting? |
March in formation or bayonet charge |
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What were the colonial military organization? |
colonial militas served under own captains |
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What were the British ways of military organization? |
British officers wanted to take charge of colonists. |
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What was the Colonial way of Military Discipline? |
NO military deference or protocols observed. |
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What was the British way of Military Discipline? |
Drills and tough discipline |
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What was the Colonial way of Finances? |
Resistance to raising the taxes |
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What was the British way of finances? |
Colonists should pay for their own defense. |
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What was the colonial way of demeanor? |
casual, non-professional |
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What was the british way of demeanor? |
Prima donna British Officers with servants and tea settings. |
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Who is William Pitt? |
He understood colonial concerns He offered them a compromise He increased the colonial morale by 1758. |
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Who is King George III |
1760-1820 won french and indian war but lost revolutionary war he was mentally unstable. |
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What were the effects of the war on Britain? |
it increases her colonial empire in the Americas, it greatly enlarged England's debt, britain's contempt for the colonials created bitter feelings, england felt that a major recognization of her american empire was necessary. |
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What were the effects of the war on the Colonies?
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it united them against a common enemy for the first time, it created a socializing experience for all the colonists who particapated, it created bitter feelings towards the British that would only intensify. |
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what happened at fort pitt? (what was the gift) |
small pox infected blankets from Fort Pitt |
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Who is Chief Pontiac? |
chief of the ottawa |
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What marked the end of the French and Indian War? |
163: The Treaty of Paris Continent was divided between Great Britain and Spain with the Mississippi River marking the terrortory. |
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What were the effects of the Treaty of Paris on France? |
lost her candadian posessions, most of her empire in India, and claims to lands of the Mississippi River. |
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What were the effects of the Treaty of Paris on Spain? |
got all french lands west of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, but, lost Florida to England. |
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What were the effects of the Treaty of Paris on England?
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got all french lands in canada, exclusive rights to carribean slave tradfe, and commercial dominance in India. |
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What was the British view after the French and Indian war? |
Low opinion of colonial military effort, poorly trained Americans, colonists refused to assist Britain in the French and Indian war, acquired a large war debt. |
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What was the colonial view after the war? |
Proud of war effort, believed they could provide their own defense, not impressed with British war tactic. |
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What was the colonial view after the war? |
Proud of war effort, believed they could provide their own defense, not impressed with British war tactic. |
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What was the road to revolution? |
Colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians, |
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What was the colonial view after the war? |
Proud of war effort, believed they could provide their own defense, not impressed with British war tactic. |
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What was the road to revolution? |
Colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians, |
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How would you pay the cost of keeping soldiers in America? |
King George iii raised the taxes in England, the British were determined to excercise greater control over the colonists and force them to help pay war debts |
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What was the colonial view after the war? |
Proud of war effort, believed they could provide their own defense, not impressed with British war tactic. |
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What was the road to revolution? |
Colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians, |
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How would you pay the cost of keeping soldiers in America? |
King George iii raised the taxes in England, the British were determined to excercise greater control over the colonists and force them to help pay war debts |
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What were British trade laws? |
George Greenville thought that the colonists should pay taxes in an effort to pay for the Br. Army, they also prevented the colonists from smuggling goods in the colonies. |
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What was the sugar act of 1764? |
Tax on imported goods (molasses, sugar, coffee, wines, and textiles), affected merchants |
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What was the reaction of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Anger- no right to tax without colonies consent |
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What was the sugar act of 1764? |
Tax on imported goods (molasses, sugar, coffee, wines, and textiles), affected merchants |
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What was the reaction of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Anger- no right to tax without colonies consent |
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What was the action of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Raise of revenue- strict enforcement |
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what was the stamp act of 1765? |
All legal documents must carry a stamp showing tax had been paid, it affected all colonists. |
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What was the action of the stamp act of 1765? |
To pay off war debt |
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What was the sugar act of 1764? |
Tax on imported goods (molasses, sugar, coffee, wines, and textiles), affected merchants |
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What was the reaction of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Anger- no right to tax without colonies consent |
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What was the action of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Raise of revenue- strict enforcement |
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what was the stamp act of 1765? |
All legal documents must carry a stamp showing tax had been paid, it affected all colonists. There were taxes on 54 kinds of paper, if you didn't pay your taxes, you got in trouble. |
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What was the action of the stamp act of 1765? |
To pay off war debt |
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What was the stamp act congress? |
Called by James Otis, first step towards unification, created a list of king's violations, repealed the stamp tax and revised the sugar act |
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What are the sons of liberty? |
Group formed to resist the Britain and they were considered rebels to the British. They began in NYC |
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What was the sugar act of 1764? |
Tax on imported goods (molasses, sugar, coffee, wines, and textiles), affected merchants |
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What was the reaction of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Anger- no right to tax without colonies consent |
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What was the action of the sugar acts of 1764? |
Raise of revenue- strict enforcement |
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what was the stamp act of 1765? |
All legal documents must carry a stamp showing tax had been paid, it affected all colonists. There were taxes on 54 kinds of paper, if you didn't pay your taxes, you got in trouble. |
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What was the action of the stamp act of 1765? |
To pay off war debt |
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What was the stamp act congress? |
Called by James Otis, first step towards unification, created a list of king's violations, repealed the stamp tax and revised the sugar act |
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What are the sons of liberty? |
Group formed to resist the Britain and they were considered rebels to the British. They began in NYC |
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What was the sons of liberty motto? |
Do or die |
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When was the stamp act of 165 repealed? |
1766 |
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What was the quartering act of 1766? |
A cost saving measure that required colonists to house soldiers and supply them with food |
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What was the Declaratory act of 1766? |
Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies |
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What was the action of the Declaratory Acts of 1766? |
Total British control |
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What was the reaction of the declaratory acts of 1766? |
Anger and ignored law |
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Some women made the daughters of liberty, what was that? |
A group of women who joined in the boycott of British tea and other goods |
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Who was Samuel Adams? |
A tax collector, delegate to the first constitutional congress, appointed governor of mass. An signed the Declaration of Independence. |
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What were the Townsend acts of 1767? |
Suspended ny's assembly until they agreed to provide housing for the troops, placed duties, money raised to pay British governors and other officials. |
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What was the action of the Townsend acts? |
raise revenue |
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What was the reaction of the Townshend acts? |
Protests, boycotts |
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What was the action of the Townshend acts except for tea being repealed? |
To restore trade between British and the colonies |
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What was the reaction of the tea act? |
Boston tea party |
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Why was the tea act passed? |
To help the British east India company |
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What did the tea act do? |
Tea act lowered the price of tea, felt colonists should not object because the price was lower, monopoly hurt the colonists and merchants. |
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What was the Boston tea party? |
The form of revolt against the tea acts, no tea was unloaded in the main ports. |
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What happened in 1764? |
Boycott after passage of the sugar act |
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What happened in 1765? |
Boycott after passage of the stamp act |
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What happened in 1766? |
Boycott relaxed after stamp act repealed |
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What happened in 1767 |
Boycott after passage of Townshend Acts |
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What happened in 1770? |
Townshend acts repealed |
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What happened in 1774? |
Boycott after passage of intolerable acts |
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What was the reaction of the Townshend acts? |
Crisis over |
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What started the revolution? |
British began to march from Boston to Concord, they wanted to seize and destroy the military storage, so they went to concord and "the shot heard round the world" marked the beginning. |
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Who is Paul Revere? |
He had learned of the secret plans and set out to warn militias in Lexington and concord. |
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What were the intolerable acts? |
In response to the Boston tea party, closed the Boston port, banned meetings, more power to the governor. |
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What was the first continental congress? |
A group of delegates that gathered to discuss their response to intolerable acts, militias were organized. |
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Where was the "shot heard round the world"? |
Lexington and concord |
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What was the battle of concord? |
The British were victorious and marched onto concord, the women at concord helped hide all of the military guns and weapons all over town |
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The battle at concord |
Militia men from near by towns poured into concord giving the patriots the win in numbers |
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2nd continental congress |
Authorized mass. Militia to form continental army (would soon include other colonies) |
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What was the olive branch petition? |
It was trying one last time for peace |
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What was the cause of the olive branch petition? |
They wanted to negotiate tax and trade |
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What happened during the Boston Massacre? What was it? |
Colonist demonstration against British taxes in America Led British troops to station in America, The redcoats patrolled every street, captin Preston cannot control the crowd. He ordered people not to fire but during the chaos people did and 5 men were killed. |
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What was the results of the olive branch? |
Rejected by the king and declared that colonies were in rebellion, he issues the proclamation of rebellion 1775 |
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Who was john hancock |
Elected president of the 2nd continental congress, he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
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Who was John Adams? |
Member of the committee of five, nominated Washington to be commander, convinced Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence |
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Who was Benjamin franklin? |
Senior member of the constitutional convention, would be an American ambassador to france |
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Who was John Dickinson? |
Quacker, opposed to independence, Adan's adversary, becomes general in continental army; moves to delaware |
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Who is Patrick Henry? |
He made a famous speech in VA, he warned VA's militias to prepare for battle, delegate from VA, member of the second continental congress |
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Who is Thomas Jefferson? |
Member of the committee of five, main author of the Declaration of Independence, 2nd VP of the USA |
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Who was crispus Attucks? |
The first african-American to dive a cause |
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Why is the Boston massacre considered a massacre? |
The British government was not going to be tolerated |
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What did the massacre mark? |
The beginning of the end for England and its Presence in the United States of America |
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Who was john Adams? |
He defended the British soldiers, he believed that everyone should have a fair trial |
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What was the British East Indian tea company? |
Bought tea in Asia, shipped to colonies and sold to merchants, boycotts, 15 millions lbs were sitting in British warehouses. |
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What was the tea act of 1773? |
Gave British east India company control over the American tea trade |
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What was the action of the tea acts? |
To pay tax on this regulated, cheaper tea. |
