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Robert Walpole
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Who: a British statesman
Where:Great Britain When:1676 - 1745 Significance: first Prime Minister of Great Britain. |
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Privy Council
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What:a body that advises the head of state of a nation concerning the exercise of executive authority
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Benjamin Franklin
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Who:as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Where: United States When: Significance: A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. |
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New France
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Who:the area colonized by France in North America
Where: United States When:1534-1763 Significance: |
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Paltry Wages
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Albany Plan
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What: A plan Proposed by Benjamin Franklin
Where: Albany, New York When: 1754 Significance: an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies under one government |
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French Indian War
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What:A war between Great Britain and France in the U.S.
Where: North America When:1754 to 1763 Significance: |
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Louis XIV
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Who: King of France
Where: France When: 1643 to 1715 Significance: France stood as the leading European power |
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Missionary Zeal
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Louis Joliet
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Who: A French Canadian Explorer
Where: North America When:1673 Significance: first Europeans to explore the Mississippi River |
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Father Jacques Marquette
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Who: French Jesuit Missionary
Where: North America When: 1673 Significance: founded Michigan's first European settlement |
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Rene Robert Cavalier
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Who: A french explorer
Where: United States and Canada When: Significance: 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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What: a sophisticated political and social system
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King Williams War
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What:A war
Where: North America When: 1689–1697 Significance:The first of the French and Indian Wars |
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Fort Necessity
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What: A battlefield
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William Pitt
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Who: a British politician
Where: France When:1783 Significance: Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer |
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Siege of Quebec
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What: A batlle between the American continental Army and th British defenders
Where: City of Quebec When: 1775 Significance: The First major defeat of the americans |
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Peace of Paris 1763
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What: A treaty between Great Britain, France, Spain and Portugal
Where: Europe When: 1763 Significance: It ended the French Indian war |
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Proclamation of 1763
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What: A proclamation of Great Britain
Where: North America When: 1763 Significance: It organized Great Britains Empire in North America and started the first nations in Canada |
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Greenville Ministry
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Sugar Act
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What: an act passed by the parliament of Great Britain
Where:North America When: 1764 Significance: |
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Currency Act
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What: An act that regulated paper money
Where: North America When: 1751 and 1764 Significance: created some tension between the British American colonies almost starting the American Revolution |
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Paxton Boys
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Who: A vigilante group
Where: North America When: Significance: Murdered Twenty native Americans in different events |
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Regulatory Movement
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What: An uprising
Where: North Carolina When: 1764 to 1771 Significance: A catalyst to the American Revolutionary War |
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Stamp Act
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What: An act
Where: North America (British America) When: 1765 Significance: Imposed taxes to many printed materials helping the American Revolution increase to almost a start |
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Virginia Resolves
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What: A series of resolutions passed in response of the Stamp Act
Where: Virginia When: 1765 Significance: At the end the only ones who could raise taxes would be the Virginia General Assembly resulting in a tremendous disagreement |
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Sons Of Liberty
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Who: A political group made up by American patriots
Where: North America When: 1760s Significance: They Attacked the apparatus and the British authorities |
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The Tory’s
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Who: followers of an political philosophy
Where: Great Britain When: 18th century Significance: opposed the French Revolution and created a new political ideology |
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Mutiny Act
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What: An act passed by the parliament for governing the British Army
Where: The Colonies When: 1689 Significance: was a response to the mutiny act |
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Quartering Act
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What: Two acts of the parliament of Great Britain
Where:American Colonies When: 18th Century Significance: A source of tension between inhabitants of the 13 colonies |
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Townshend Act
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What: A series of acts passed by the parliament of Great Britain
Where: British Colonies in North America When: 1767 Significance: The new taxes were repealed, but the tax on tea was retained. The British government continued in its attempt to tax the colonists without their consent, however, this didnt gave any result since the Boston tea Party and the American Revolution followed |
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Navigation Act
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What: A series of laws that prohibited the use of foreign shipping
Where: England When:1651 Significance: one of the several sources of resentment in the american colonies |
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Boston Massacre
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What: A British army incident of five civilians
Where: British American Colonies When: 1770 Significance: a tense situation between civilians and the british army troops |
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Samuel Adams
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Loyalists
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Patriots
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Gaspee Incident
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Tea Act
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Daughters of Liberty
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Boston Tea Party
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Coercive Acts
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First Continental Congress
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John Adams
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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General Thomas Gage
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Paul Revere
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John Dickinson Letters to a farmer
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The Massachusetts Circular
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