Apush Chapter 6

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The Seven Years War/French and Indian War

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England and France fighting over American land. France lost.

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Iroquois confederacy

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Wanted to preserve the land they had, and French outposts usually didn't destroy land with farms.

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Albany conference of 1754

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British colonies tried and failed to ally with Iroquois. Adopted Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union.

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Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union

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Plan for an inter-colonial union that would manage defense and Indian affairs. Rejected by Albany Congress.

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Ohio Company

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People who built a fort at the Forks of the Ohio River, in order to resist French expansion.

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Treaty of Paris

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The formal end to British hostilities against France and Spain

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Outcome of the war for Britain

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Won, but lost a lot of money

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Outcome of the war for American colonists

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Stronger sense of identity, felt separate from Britain

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Outcome of the war for Native Americans

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The French gave their land away

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Pontiac's rebellion

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Because the Natives had never surrendered, they attacked British forts, who responded with smallpox.

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Royal proclamation of 1763

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Land west of the Appalachian mountains set aside for Native Americans.

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John Peter Zenger

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Newspaper editor who was put on trial for what he wrote, but this trial ended up promoting freedom of the press.

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Republicanism

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Libertarianism

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Sugar Act

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Passed to increase revenue in American colonies, highly enforced duty on sugar

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Stamp Act

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Required taxed, stamped paper for legal documents, publications, and playing cards

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Virtual representation

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The idea that Parliament represented the interests of the nation as a whole

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Actual representation

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Elected representatives responded to local issues

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Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions

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Statement against the Stamp Act that was spread everywhere

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Patrick Henry

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Wrote the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions

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Samuel Adams

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Leader of Boston radicals

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Sons of Liberty

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Wanted to seize control of the resistance movement and make it more moderate.

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Stamp Act Congress/nonimportation movement

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They agreed to stop importing from Britain until the Stamp Act was repealed. It worked.

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Declaratory Act

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Accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act, said that Parliament still had absolute power

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Townshend Revenue Acts

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Placed duties on many commodities

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Massachusetts Circular Letter

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Letter written by Samuel Adams that encouraged resistance

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Boston Massacre

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British soldiers shot several Americans

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Tea Act

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Allowed the East India Company to sell in America without paying duty. Was seen as unfair.

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Boston Tea Party

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Protesting the Tea Act, Americans destroyed tea that belonged to British East India Company

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Coercive/Intolerable Acts

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Punishment for the Boston Tea Party

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Quartering Act

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Required Americans to let soldiers live in their homes

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Quebec Act

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Made Canada authoritarian and Catholic

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First Continental Congress

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Meeting of delegates in response to the Coercive Acts

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Committees of Correspondence

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Kept Americans informed about British measures that would affect them

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Lexington and Concord

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The first battles of the Revolutionary War

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Minutemen

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American militia

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Give me liberty or give me death

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Patrick Henry

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Second Continental Congress

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Decided to fight back against the British and put George Washington in charge

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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British won, but were very hurt

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Loyalists

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Americans who supported the British