key terms chapter 4

was a British statesman who was generally regarded of having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

-usually in the context of the monarchic government
-body that advices the head of state of a nation concerning the excercise of executive authority

-one of the founding fathers of the united states
-major figure in american enlightenment and the history of physics

-area colonized by france in north america
- by Jacques Cartier

-attempt of forming a union of the colonies (during the French and Indian war
-plan was put forward by various delagates of the albany congress

-war between Great Britain and france in north america (from 1754-1763)
-also known as seven years war

- known as "sun king"
-king of france and navarre
-longest european monarch (started at the age of four and lasted until his death; seventy two years)

-french canadian explorer
-fisrt to explore mississippi river

-french jesuit missionary that found michigans fisrt settlement, sault ste. Marie and then ste. ignance, michigan
-also first to explore mississippi river

-french explorer
-explored great lakes, mississippi river, canada and the gulf of mexico

-a.k.a. the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse"
-are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America.

-first of the French and Indian Wars
-was the name used in the English colonies in America to refer to the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance (1688–97).
-It was fought between England, France, and their respective American Indian allies in the colonies of Canada (New France), Acadia, and New England.

-is a National Battlefield Site preserving elements of the Battle of Fort Necessity in Fayette County,Pennsylvania, United States.

-was a long-serving senior officer of the British Army
-covered several major wars and numerous postings as garrison and regiment commanders.

-was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
-fought between the British Army and Navy, and the French Army
- fought on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City

-ended the French and Indian War
-signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal

-issued October 7, 1763, by King George III
-because of Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America

-a British Government headed by George Grenville

-was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764

-is the name of several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.

-was a vigilante group that murdered twenty Native Americans in events sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre

-was a North Carolina uprising

- a law enacted by government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents

-an act passed yearly by Parliament for governing the British Army

-were used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British soldiers had adequate housing and provisions Edit

-was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial control

-a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies

-an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770

-a statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

-an act of the Parliament of Great Britain to expand the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price

-a successful Colonial American group that consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts

- a direct action by colonists in Boston against the British government
- group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor

-total of five acts
- triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution.

- a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution
-because of coercieve acts

-an American politician and political philosopher and the second President of the United States

were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

-was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution

-a British general known for his role in the early days of the American War of Independence.

-a statement written by Samuel Adams, passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts

-important in uniting the colonists against the Townshend Acts

-a British revenue schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations, ran aground in shallow water on June 9, 1772

-the name for the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies, who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution

-someone who maintains loyalty to an established government, political party, or sovereign

-a political group made up of American Patriots
-group was designed to incite change in the British government's treatment of the Colonies

-were a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia General Assembly in response to the Stamp Act of 1765

-the tories were loyalists
-who supported the king

wages given to deputies

one sent to propagate religion, they drew large numbers of jesusits and tried to convert them.