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Question 1

French and Indian War

Answer 1

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

Question 2

George Washington

Answer 2

Led a small militia from Virginia to stop work on French Fort Duquesne. Was forced to surrender. (July 3rd, 1754)

Question 3

Edward Braddock

Answer 3

General who led an army from Virginia, but was defeated (1755)

Question 4

Albany Plan of Union (1754)

Answer 4

British government called for representatives from several colonies to meet in Albany, NY, to provide for an intercolonial government to recruit troops and collect taxes. (1754)

Question 5

Peace of Paris (1763)

Answer 5

Peace treaty signed to end the French and Indian War (1763)

Question 6

salutary neglect

Answer 6

Britian had exercised little direct control over the colonies and did not enforce its navigation laws

Question 7

George III; crown

Answer 7

King of England and member of the Whig party

Question 8

Whigs

Answer 8

Dominant political party in Parliament who wanted to solve England’s financial problems through the colonies

Question 9

Parliment

Answer 9

Legislative house of Great Britain

Question 10

Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)

Answer 10

(1763) Indian chief Pontiac led a major attack against the colonies. The British did not rely on colonial forces, but instead sent their army to deal with the rebellion

Question 11

Proclamation Act of 1763

Answer 11

Prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachain Mountains. British hoped it would prevent violence between Native Americans and colonists.

Question 12

Sugar Act (1764)

Answer 12

Placed taxes on goods such as foreign sugar and other luxuries

Question 13

Quartering Act (1765)

Answer 13

Required the colonists to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers in the colonies

Question 14

Stamp Act (1765)

Answer 14

Required that revenue stamps be placed on almost all printed paper. First direct tax paid by the people.

Question 15

Patrick Henry

Answer 15

Young Virginian lawyer who coined the phrase “No taxation without representation” in his speech to the House of Burgesses

Question 16

Stamp Act Congress

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Representatives from nine colonies met in NY (1765), and decided that only their own elected representatives had the power to approve taxes

Question 17

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Answer 17

Secret society who intimidated tax agents; tarred and feathered some tax collectors

Question 18

Declaratory Act (1766)

Answer 18

Asserted that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies in all cases whatsoever

Question 19

Townshend Acts (1767)

Answer 19

Acts which enacted new taxes to be collected on imports of tea, glass, and paper. Also created the writs of assistance to help people search homes for smuggled items.

Question 20

writs of assistance

Answer 20

A general license to search anywhere; used to search private homes for smuggled goods

Question 21

John Dickinson: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

Answer 21

Work of literature in which Dickinson argued that no taxation without representation was an important principle of English law

Question 22

Samuel Adams

Answer 22

In 1768, he wrote the Massachusetts Circular Letter with James Otis

Question 23

James Otis

Answer 23

In 1768, he wrote the Massachusetts Circular Letter with Samuel Adams

Question 24

Massachusetts Circular Letter

Answer 24

Letter which urged the colonies to petition Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts. British officials ordered it retracted and threatened to do away with the Massachusetts legislative government and increase the number of troops in Boston

Question 25

Lord Frederick North

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New prime minister of Britain, urged Parliment to repeal the Townshend Acts

Question 26

Boston Massacre (1770)

Answer 26

(1770) British guards, harrassed by colonists, fire into a crowd, killing five people

Question 27

Crispus Attacks

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An African American man who was one of the five people killed in the Boston Massacre

Question 28

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 28

Initiated by Samuel Adams (1772), these spread news of suspicious acts by the British throughout the colonies

Question 29

Gaspee incident

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British customs ship, which had caught many smugglers, ran aground and colonists dressed as Indians drove everyone off the boat, then burned it

Question 30

Tea Act (1773)

Answer 30

Lowered the price of tea, but still had a very small tax on it. Colonists still refused to buy it on principle

Question 31

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Answer 31

In December 1773, colonists dressed as Indians threw 342 chests of imported tea into the harbor

Question 32

Intolerable Acts

Answer 32

Colonist name for the Coercive Acts

Question 33

Coercive Acts (1774)

Answer 33

A series of acts made to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

Question 34

Port Act

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Act which closed the port of Boston, prohibiting trade in and out ot the harbor until the destroyed tea was paid for

Question 35

Massachusetts Government Act

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Act which reduced the power of the Massachusetts legislature while increasing the power of the royal governor

Question 36

Administration of Justice Act

Answer 36

Act which allowed royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in England instead of the colonies

Question 37

Quartering Act

Answer 37

This expanded a previous act, allowing British soldiers to be quartered in private homes

Question 38

Quebec Act (1774)

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Established Roman Catholicism as the official religion of Quebec, set up a government for Quebec and set the border at the Ohio River

Question 39

Enlightenment

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A European movement in literature and philosophy; used human reasoning to solve problems

Question 40

Deism

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Believe that God established natural laws in creating the universe, but that the role of divine intervention in human affairs was minimal

Question 41

rationalism

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Trusted human reason to solve the many problems of life and society; emphasized reason, science, and respect for humanity

Question 42

John Locke

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English philosopher who said that all people have rights, simply because they are human and that people have a right and a responsibility to revolt against any government that failed to protect their rights

Question 43

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 43

French philosopher