Chapter/Packet 6 Flashcards
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Acadians
are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.
French and Indian War
was a theater of the Seven Years’ War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
Seven Years’ War
was a global conflict involving most of the major European powers and many smaller European states, as well as nations in Asia and the Americas.
Albany Congress
also known as the Albany Convention of 1754, was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the 17 British colonies in British America: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
regulars
regular customer, member of a team, etc
Battle of Québec
was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses.
Pontiac’s War
was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native Americans dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. Warriors from numerous nations joined in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region.
Proclamation of 1763
British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
Republicanism
support for a republican system of government.
radical Whigs
theory described two sorts of threats to political freedom: a general moral decay which would invite the intrusion of evil and despotic rulers, and the encroachment of executive authority upon the legislature, the attempt that power always made to subdue the liberty protected by mixed …
mercantilism
a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restrictive trade practices.
Sugar Act
cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
Quartering Act
required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
stamp tax
tax that is levied on single property purchases or documents.
admiralty courts
a tribunal with jurisdiction over maritime law, including cases regarding shipping, ocean, and sea laws.
Stamp Act Congress
also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.
nonimportation agreements
was an 18th Century boycott that restricted importation of goods to the city of Boston. This agreement was signed on August 1, 1768 by more than 60 merchants and traders. After two weeks, there were only 16 traders who did not join the effort.
Sons of Liberty
was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
Daughters of Liberty
formal female association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts,
Declaratory Act
commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
Townshend Acts
a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. B
Boston Massacre
was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles.
committees of correspondence
emergency provisional governments set up in the 13 American colonies in response to British policies leading up to the Revolutionary War
Boston Tea Party
was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.