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What was the primary purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754?
To develop a treaty with Native Americans and plan the defense of the colonies against France
Who proposed the Albany Plan of Union in 1754?
Benjamin Franklin
What was determined as a result of The Peace of Paris?
Ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United as an independent nation
the Proclamation Line of 1763 proclaimed what?
Prohibited Anglo-American colonist from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian war
What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
To promote the self- sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods
The colonial outcry of “no taxation without representation”is in relation to what?
Any taxes it imposed on the colonists were unconstitutional and were a denial of the colonists’ rights
How does “Salutary neglect” affect the colonists before and after the French and Indian War?
allowed the colonies to create and maintain foreign trade relationships, which resulted in their economic growth and prosperity
Know the definition and significance of the Pontiac’s Rebellion, Enlightenment, primogeniture
Pontiac’s Rebellion was an armed conflict between the British Empire and Algonquian. The Enlightenment was a major in 18 century Europe that uses the reason, science, and logic to understand the world. Primogeniture is a legal system where the first born child inherits the property.
2 main imperial policies that British soldiers were intended to carry out as a result of the Quartering Act of 1765
1) Occupy barracks provided by the colonies. 2) Be quartered in public buildings like inns and alehouses.
Currency Act
Prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures.
Stamp Act
Provoked the most intense colonial opposition of all measures enacted by the Britain following the French and Indian war.
Declaratory Act
Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
Townshend Acts
Imposed addition taxes on the colonists.
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
What was the main point of the Virginia Resolves?
That the Taxation of the People by themselves, or by Person chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what Taxes the People are able to bear.
How did women contribute to the Colonial Patriot Cause?
boycotting British goods or following their men into war
Understand the famous propaganda etching from Paul Revere displaying the Boston Massacre
it showed an organized and sneering line of British soldiers firing on unarmed innocents in response to obvious orders from Captain Thomas Preston.
The Sons of Liberty and their role in the Boston Tea Party
disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. To protest British Parliament’s tax on tea. “No taxation without representation.” The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
