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39 Cards in this Set
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The Seven Years War/French and Indian War |
England and France fighting over American land. France lost. |
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Iroquois confederacy |
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 |
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 |
Plan for an inter-colonial union that would manage defense and Indian affairs. Rejected by Albany Congress. |
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Ohio Company |
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 |
The formal end to British hostilities against France and Spain |
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Outcome of the war for Britain |
Won, but lost a lot of money |
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Outcome of the war for American colonists |
Stronger sense of identity, felt separate from Britain |
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Outcome of the war for Native Americans |
The French gave their land away |
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Pontiac's rebellion |
Because the Natives had never surrendered, they attacked British forts, who responded with smallpox. |
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Royal proclamation of 1763 |
Land west of the Appalachian mountains set aside for Native Americans. |
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John Peter Zenger |
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 |
Libertarianism |
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Sugar Act |
Passed to increase revenue in American colonies, highly enforced duty on sugar |
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Stamp Act |
Required taxed, stamped paper for legal documents, publications, and playing cards |
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Virtual representation |
The idea that Parliament represented the interests of the nation as a whole |
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Actual representation |
Elected representatives responded to local issues |
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Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions |
Statement against the Stamp Act that was spread everywhere |
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Patrick Henry |
Wrote the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions |
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Samuel Adams |
Leader of Boston radicals |
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Sons of Liberty |
Wanted to seize control of the resistance movement and make it more moderate. |
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Stamp Act Congress/nonimportation movement |
They agreed to stop importing from Britain until the Stamp Act was repealed. It worked. |
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Declaratory Act |
Accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act, said that Parliament still had absolute power |
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Townshend Revenue Acts |
Placed duties on many commodities |
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Massachusetts Circular Letter |
Letter written by Samuel Adams that encouraged resistance |
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Boston Massacre |
British soldiers shot several Americans |
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Tea Act |
Allowed the East India Company to sell in America without paying duty. Was seen as unfair. |
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Boston Tea Party |
Protesting the Tea Act, Americans destroyed tea that belonged to British East India Company |
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Coercive/Intolerable Acts |
Punishment for the Boston Tea Party |
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Quartering Act |
Required Americans to let soldiers live in their homes |
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Quebec Act |
Made Canada authoritarian and Catholic |
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First Continental Congress |
Meeting of delegates in response to the Coercive Acts |
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Committees of Correspondence |
Kept Americans informed about British measures that would affect them |
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Lexington and Concord |
The first battles of the Revolutionary War |
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Minutemen |
American militia |
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Give me liberty or give me death |
Patrick Henry |
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Second Continental Congress |
Decided to fight back against the British and put George Washington in charge |
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Battle of Bunker Hill |
British won, but were very hurt |
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Loyalists |
Americans who supported the British |