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Huguenots

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French protestants

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Edict of Nantes

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granted limited religious tolerance to the Huguenots

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Coureurs de Bois

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French traveling settlers who made living off of selling beaver pelt

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Voyageurs

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recruited Natives to join pelt trading cause

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King William’s and Queen Anne’s War

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Fight between England and France for control over North America. Mostly fought between Brit Colonists and Coureurs de Bois

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War of Jenkin’s Ear

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Caused by tension created after King William’s war, and the agreements made at Utrecht. Between Spain and England, mostly fought in the Carribeans and Georgia

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King George’s War

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Sequel to War of Jenkin’s Ear, France and Spain against Britain. Merged with the war of Austrian Succession. Louisburg

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Acadians

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French colonists in Nova Scotia, move to Louisiana after British conquer and become Cajun

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French Indian War

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Fight over the Ohio Valley between Britain and France, merged with Seven Year’s War

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Albany Congress

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lead by Franklin, created to solve problems of invading Natives and French. Both London and the colonies rejected it

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Regulars

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British citizen/militia men

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Battle of Quebec

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between Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm. Both die, but Quebec surrenders

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Pontiac’s Uprising

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laid siege to Detroit, and overran all but three British posts west of the Appalachians. Britain responds with biological warfare

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Proclamation of 1763

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Prohibits settlers from settling over the Appalachians.

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Louis XIV

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likes overseas colonies, expands

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Champlain

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“Father of New France”, explored and founded Quebec area, made Iroqouis angry,

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Edward Braddock

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British commander who tried to capture Fort Duquesne. Ended up leaving west side of the colonies exposed to Native Attacks

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William Pitt

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Loved British Commander, attacks Montreal and Quebec

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James Wolfe

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conquered and died for Quebec, British

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Pontiac

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lead attack against Detroit region.

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Date of Champlain colonizes Quebec

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1608

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Date of Queen Anne’s war

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1702-1713

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Date of French find New Orleans

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1718

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Date of Peace of Paris, Pontiac’s Uprising, Proclamation of 1763

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1763

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Republicanism
for the greater good, opposed to aristocracy and monarchy
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Radical Whigs
against corruption
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mercantilism
state run economy, export more than import
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Sugar Act
First law passed that raised revenue for the crown
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Stamp tax made because
military funding
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Admirality courts
guilty until proven innocent.
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Stamp Act Congress
brought together 27 delegates from the colonies, drew up statement of rights
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nonimportation agreements
against the buying of british goods, boy cotting.
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Sons and Daughter of Liberty
Radicals who "took the law into their own hands"
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Declatory Act
Britain draws line in hand, says parliament has the right to bind the colonies in any way whatsoever
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Townshend acts
internal, less direct tax on paper, paint and white lead
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Boston Massacre
troops inflict 11 casualties
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committees of correspondence
run by Samuel Adams, send letters and do other things to spread spirit of revolution
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Boston Tea Party
Colonists toss excess tead from British East India company over board
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Intolerable Acts
chartered rights of Massachussets taken away, new quartering act
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Quebec Act
new territory is not given the same rights as English men
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First Continental congress
Convention, respected men meet, discuss grievances
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The Association
more radicals who tar and feather
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Lexington and Concord
fought over colonists siezing ammunition
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Valley Forge
Soldiers are starving, barely clothed
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camp followers
women who cooked and cleaned for the men
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John hancock
leader of the Continental Congress, recieves fortune by smuggling
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George Grenville
proposed stamp tax, Prime Minister, Americans should pay for defense
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Charles Townshend
proposed indirect taxes in the Townshend Acts
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Crispus Attackus
leader of the Boston mob, dies in massacre
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George III
king of Britain during American rev
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Lord North
Prime minister of London during American rev, very conservative
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Samuel Adams
Speaks out about independence early on
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Thomas Hutchinson
conservative mayor of Boston during tea party
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Marquis de Lafayette
French gent who will help Washington fight by providing a navy and arms.
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Baron von Steuben
German drill sargent who whips the American militia men into shape
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Lord Dunmore
British Royal governor who offers freedom to slaves who volunteer for military
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Date of Quartering Act, Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress
1765
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Date of Boston Massacre
1770
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
1775
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Second Continental Congress
no call for independence
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Bunker Hill
strategic military position for Americans, in trenches a mow down charging British forces
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Olive Branch Petition
professes American loyalty, and begs to prevent further hostilities
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Hessians
German mercenaries
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Common Sense date of publishment
1776
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Date of Declaration of Independence
July 4th, 1776
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Patriots
American rebels against Brits
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Battle of Long Island
Washington retreating from Manhattan island, narrowly gets awayq
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Trenton
Washington captures 1000 Hessians after Christmas
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Saratoga
Burgoyne loses after plowing into the forest
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Model Treaty
Created by Continental Congress, asked for no military and political connection, only a commercial connection
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Armed Neutrality
giant alliance between Spain, Holland, France and Russia passively against Britain
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Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Treaty between natives and Americans. Natives lose most of their land.
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Privateers
pirates who interrupted British trade
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Yorktown
Washington and de Grasse defeat Cornwallis in a trap
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Treaty of Paris
Britain recognizes American independence
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Ethan Allen
leads Bunker Hill attack
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Benedict Arnold
helps Ethan Allen
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General Montgomery
Captures Montreal, dies in battle
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Thomas Paine
recent citizen of America, rights Common Sense
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Richard Henry Lee
creates initial motion for declaration of independence, says "give me liberty or give me death"
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Lord Cornwallis
trapped by Washington in York
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William Howe
Almost ends Washington, but decides not to follow him
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John Burgoyne
tasked with "pushing down" Lake Champlain from Canada to meet Howe's troops in New York. Gets defeated at Saratoga
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Comte de Rochembeau
Arrives in Manhattan with 6000 French troops
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Nathaneal Green
British general, fighting Quakers
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Joseph Brant
Mohawk leader who believed that siding with Britain would end American western expansion
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George Rogers Clark
captures several forts by floating down river
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Admiral de Grasse
helps Washington capture Cornwall
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Date of Treaty of Paris
1783
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Date of Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1784

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