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plan that provided for an intercolonial government and a system for collecting taxes for the colonies' defense
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Albany Plan of the Union
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Why was the Albany Plan rejected?
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colonists did not want to relinquish control of their right to tax themselves and didn't want to unite themselves under a single legislature
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How long was the Seven Years' War fought
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Nine years (no this is not a typo)
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After the treaty of the Seven Years' war, what did the French keep?
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Two sugar islands
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What planted anti-British sentiment in America?
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Watching the conduct of the British army during the Seven Years' War
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Who did the Native Americans ally themselves with in the war? Why?
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French. They expected them to win the war and they were the lesser of two evils
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What did the Townshend Acts contain?
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-taxed goods from Britain (first time there was this kind of tax)
-paid tax collectors with some tax money -more vice-admiralty courts and new government offices -suspended New York legislature -instituted writs of assistance |
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What were the Townshend Acts named for?
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The minister after William Pitt, Charles Townshend
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licenses that gave the British the power to search any place they suspected of hiding smuggled goods
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writs of assistance
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What was new about the tax products of pre-revolution?
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First time "commoners" protested
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What happened for the next two years after the Townshend Acts?
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Nothing
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What were the Coercive Acts? (Intolerable Acts)
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-closed Boston Harbor until debt for tea is repaid
-lightened control over Massachusetts government and courts -quarter soldiers |
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What did the Quebec Acts do?
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-granted greater liberties to Catholics
-extended boundary of Quebec territory |
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How did the French react to British moving into Ohio Valley?
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fortified outposts at strategic entry spots
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Who replaced Rockingham?
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William Pitt
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Who replaced Grenville?
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Lord Rockingham
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Why did the Native Americans like the French better?
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-English expansion was more disruptive
-raised price on goods sold -ceased paying rent |
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act which asserted the British government's right to tax and legislate anywhere in the colonies
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Declaratory Act
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How did the British government respond to the Native American attacks on colonists as they expanded?
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Proclamation of 1763
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How did the British government directly stop Pontiac's Rebellion?
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germ warfare
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What were the views on the Seven Years' War debt?
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-George III and Grenville: colonists should help pay debt
-Colonists: felt they had fulfilled obligation by quartering soldiers |
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established a number of new duties and also contained provisions aimed at deterring molasses smugglers
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Sugar Act of 1764
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Why were colonists not upset at previous taxes?
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smuggling was common practice and little revenue from taxes were actually collected
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What REALLY angered the colonists about the Sugar Act?
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duties had to be collected
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forbade the colonies to issue paper money
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Currency Act
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What did the Currency Act mark the beginning of?
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-end of salutary neglect
-postwar economomic depression |
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Name the provisions of the Stamp Act:
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-tax meant to raise revenue
-broad-based tax covering all legal documents and licenses -tax on colony-made goods |
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Who said "No taxation without representation?"
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James Otis in
"The Right of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved" |
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Did James Otis advocate for secession?
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No. He argued for either:
-representation in Parliament OR -more self-government |
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stated that members of Parliament represented all British subjects regardless of who elected them
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virtual representation
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a document that protested tax and asserted the colonist's rights to self-government
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Virginia Stamp Act Resolves by Patrick Henry`
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What is the Battle of Concord sometimes referred to as? Why does it have this nickname?
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"the shot heard round the world"
A small group of common people could defeat the world's strongest army |
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was a last-ditch attempt to avoid armed conflict
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Olive Branch Petition
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a pamphlet that advocated colonial independence and the merits of republicanism over monarchy
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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treaty that brought the French into the war on the side of the colonists after the Battle of Saratoga
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Franco-American Alliance
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Who negotiated the Franco-American Alliance?
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Ben Franklin
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What kind of war was the Revolutionary War?
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A war of attrition
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Name the Acts that Congress passed after the Proclamation of 1763 in order
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Sugar Act
Currency Act Stamp Act Declaratory Act Townshend Act Coercive Acts Quebec Act |
