Chapter 4: Experience of Empire - 18th Century America

Question 1

Back Country

Answer 1

were the non-British Americans (farmers from continental Europe) went

Question 2

Scots-Irish

Answer 2

Presbyterians living in Catholic Ireland - fled to America due to oppression from both sides (rootless people)

Question 3

Pennsylvania Dutch

Answer 3

Protestant Quaker-y Germans who left for America and settled in PA searching for religious tolerance

Question 4

Transportation Act (1718)

Answer 4

convicted felons were sentenced to settling in America as indentured servants

Question 5

Middle Ground

Answer 5

Indians will trade with the whites, but not conform to their ways

Question 6

American Enlightenment

Answer 6

was not as extreme as the Enlightenment in Europe

• retained traditional christian values
• a good and caring god
• SCIENCE AND REASON

Question 7

Ben Franklin

Answer 7

Genuine man of reason and science.

Man of the Enlightenment

Question 8

Navigation Acts

Answer 8

Made America more dependent on the motherland

Question 9

Great Awakening

Answer 9

Protestant Revivals

Question 10

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 10

good deeds will not save you from sin, and soft ministers are misleading the people

Question 11

George Whitefield

Answer 11

sustained the revival - “tell me you are Christian, that is all I want”

Question 12

New Lights

Answer 12

those who wished to listen to the traveling clergymen

Question 13

Old Lights

Answer 13

those who ignored the traveling clergymen

Question 14

Commonwealthmen

Answer 14

those who called out political issues via writing

Question 15

King William’s War

Answer 15

William II vs. Louis XIV; Britain vs. France - NE colonists suffered

Question 16

Queen Anne’s War

Answer 16

bloody war on the America Frontier - colonists had to help in the fighting, but gained nothing for their efforts

Question 17

King George’s War

Answer 17

victory over the French and the British signed treaties going against the colonist’s wishes

Question 18

Fort Necessity

Answer 18

a fort placed in front of the French fort Duquesne

Question 19

George Washington

Answer 19

Manned Fort Necessity

Question 20

Albany Plan

Answer 20

Ben F’s plan for a Grand Council with representatives from every colony

Question 21

General Edward Braddock

Answer 21

showed up with an army to be done with the Ohio Valley conflicts - is a shitty general, 70% of his men died attacking Fort Duquesne

Question 22

Seven Year’s War/French & Indian War

Answer 22

official war between France and Britain

Question 23

William Pitt

Answer 23

thought he could save the empire by kicking the French out of America - caused a serious debt problem

Question 24

Siege of Quebec

Answer 24

surprise attack on the city, led by Wolfe

Question 25

Montcalm

Answer 25

he and Wolfe were morally injured in battle

Question 26

Peace of Paris

Answer 26

gave all the land east of the Mississippi, Florida, Canada, and 80,000 French subjects