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Question 1

what was impressment?

Answer 1

• forcibly enlisting sailors into the British navy against their will
• this led to rebellions and riots
• claimed they had the “natural right” to revolt

Question 2

what was the regulator movement?

Answer 2

• farmers in north and south carolina
• they felt ignored by colonial government; wanted to bring attention to unfair situations
• led to violence
• soon diminished by colonial government

Question 3

albany plan of union

Answer 3

• proposed by Benjamin Franklin
• proposal to create a centralized government/military for all colonies
• rejected
• 1754

Question 4

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 4

• Pontiac - Ottawa Chief
• a bunch of Native groups rebelled
• wanted to cleanse themselves of whites
• colonists were encroaching their land
• Ohio surrendered to the Indians

Question 5

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 5

• British monarch wanted peace in N. America with Natives & colonists
• didn’t want settlers to settle west
• created a line that colonists could not pass
• whites at the frontier felt betrayed

Question 6

paxton boys

Answer 6

• group of farmers that wanted to rid of all indians
• began to march into philly, but Ben Franklin stopped them