Chapter 4 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Mercantile System
Belief that international power and influence depended on a nations wealth and its ability to be economically self-sufficient
Navigation Acts
Prompted by mercantile views, English wanted to tighten control over colonies. Ordered that all trade must be carried in English ships, manned by a 3/4 English crew.
Enumerated products (examples and meaning)
Certain products could only be shipped to England or other British colonies. These products included tobacco, cotton, indigo, ginger, and sugar.
Dominion of New England
Established by King James 2 to impress upon the colonies their inferiority. This joined all the colonies into a single royal colony.
Glorious Revolution
After James 2 fled to France Boston staged a rebellion to arrest the hated governor Andros. This event had significance because it set a set a precedent for removing a hated monarch.
Spain’s main focus when settling colonies was…
Conversion of indigenous people to Catholicism, forbade manufacturing in colonies, and it strictly limited trade with the native Americans.
Commander in chief for British troops in the French and Indian War
General Edward Braddock
Battle at Fort Duquesne was a loss for the British because…
They had no Indian scouts and were surrounded by the time they made it to the fort.
What treaty brought an end to the French and Indian war?
Treaty of Paris (1763)
The treaty of Paris gave what land to which countries?
Great Britain received Canada, and Spanish Florida including much of Alabama and Mississippi.
Spain received the Louisiana Territory.
Pontiacs Rebellion
The treaty of Paris gave Indian lands to the British. This caused strife between the colonies and the Indians. (Mainly Pennsylvania, Maryland,and Virginia). This led to pontiacs rebellion, led by Ottawa chieftain.
Proclamation of 1763
In order to make peace with the Indians (pontiacs rebellion) King George issued this decree which drew a line down the Appalachian mountains.
George Grenville
Ended the period of salutary neglect. Enforced navigation acts. Enforced Molasses act of 1763 and sugar act (American revenue of 1764) .
Sons of Liberty
Protestors of the Stamp act and responsible for the Boston tea party
Stamp Act Congress
Formed the declaration of rights and grievances of the colonies
The Townsend Acts
Levied duties on colonial imports, increased government revenue, taxes goods exported form England.
The coercive (intolerable) acts
Put in place in response to the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston harbor, demanded authorities provide lodging for British soldiers, and England appointed by Royal governors.
First continental congress
Met in Philadelphia, mission was to assert rights of colonies and measures to defend them. Recommended that they boycott imported British goods.
2nd continental congress
Convened in Philadelphia. Named George Washington commander of of continental army.
Green Mountain Boys
Led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold
Three British generals at the Battle of Bunker Hill
William Howe, sir Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne (British won this battle)
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine, first document to directly attach parliament AND the King .
“The blood of the slain, the weeping voices of nature cries, ‘this time to part”
The sugar act…
Halved the existing tax
With the Declaratory Act…
Parliament asserted to power to make laws for the colonies
