Unit 2 Vocab

Question 1

1754
New York 
7 out of 13 colonies
No Union
Happened because Iroquois something

Answer 1

Albany congress

Question 2

Ended 7 years war

Answer 2

Treaty of Paris 1763

Question 3

Ended the american Revolution

Answer 3

Treaty of Paris 1783

Question 4

• fought in Great Lakes

- surrender , got blankets infected with small pox

Answer 4

Pantiac’s rebellion

Question 5

• trade restrictions
• made for economy
• trade within Great Britain

Answer 5

Mercantilism

Question 6

Aka 7 years war
1754-63
Britain v France
Started in North America -> Caribbean & Europe

Answer 6

French & Indian war

Question 7

Boston tea party

Anti-British

Answer 7

Sons of Liberty

Question 8

Boycott the British

Made stuff themselves

Answer 8

Daughters of Liberty

Question 9

Loyal nine

Answer 9

A mob in Boston that wanted to protest the stamp act

Question 10

1st man to be killed in Boston massacre 
African American (ironic)

Answer 10

Crispus Attucks

Question 11

• political propaganda
• make a bigger deal than what it was
• Samuel Adams
• communication between patriot leaders in New England and the colonies

Answer 11

Committees of correspondence

Question 12

Farmers become militiamen and transform in 60 seconds

Answer 12

Minutemen

Question 13

German soldiers hired by King George III (king of Britain) to harass his own people

Answer 13

Hessians

Question 14

• 1774

- boycott the British

Answer 14

1st continental congress

Question 15

• 1775
• olive ranch petition
• continental army

Answer 15

2nd continental congress

Question 16

A French get all who went back to France and took american ideas to the French Revolution

Answer 16

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 17

Prussian general who helped train army under George Washington

Answer 17

Von Steuben

Question 18

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that tried to persuade independence

Answer 18

Common sense

Question 19

The first government official who wanted to get independence and tried

Answer 19

Richard Henry Lee

Question 20

“Give me liberty or give me death”

Answer 20

Patrick Henry

Question 21

People who wanted to gain independence vs the ones who wanted to remain loyal to Britain

Answer 21

Patriots vs Loyalist (Whigs vs Tories)

Question 22

• started 1607 ended 1763
• British government allowed colonies to do as they wish = perfect relationship ends because Britain needed money so they asked for faces and then :(

Answer 22

Salutary neglect

Question 23

Private individuals that offered their ships

Answer 23

Privateers

Question 24

“I have not yet began to fight”

- father of american navy

Answer 24

John Paul Jones

Question 25

Thomas Jefferson | -no official religion

Answer 25

Virginia statue for religious freedom

Question 26

The nations first constitution | 1777-1781-1789

Answer 26

Articles of confederation

Question 27

Had a lot of land so they gave it to the government and government sells it & saves some for public education

Answer 27

Land ordinance of 1785

Question 28

- forbids slavery in north west territories - provides a system for a territory to become a state one they have more then 60000 people - respect "Indian" treaties

Answer 28

Northwest ordinance of 1787

Question 29

- 1786 - western Massachusetts - farmers vs local government - because of taxes

Answer 29

Shay's rebellion

Question 30

Alexander Hamilton realizes country isn't working calls for meeting in 1786

Answer 30

Annapolis

Question 31

Annapolis didn't work out meeting a year later where they revise the articles on the articles of confederation

Answer 31

Philadelphia convention

Question 32

Where they get the House of Representatives for every state depending on population (Virginia plan) and that every state gets the same amount of senate (New Jersey plan)

Answer 32

The great compromise

Question 33

Problem with counting the slaves as people so then only 3/5th of the slaves count as population

Answer 33

Three-fifths compromise

Question 34

Virginia and New York didn't want to be in favor of the constituency so then Jay Hamilton and Madison worked with these essays

Answer 34

Federalist papers