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Unit 2 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Jonathan Edwards | preacher during the First great awakening, famous sermon was "Sinners in the hands of an angry god |
George Whitefield | preacher during first great awakening, famous for preaching at large gatherings that were emotional. |
First great awakening | christian revival in the early 1700s that united the colonies and led to more churchers |
denomination | a church organization like the baptist of methodist church |
benjamin franklin | american writer, printer, inventor that proposed the Albany plan of union |
Navigation acts | a series of laws passed by England to ensure that colonists only traded with England |
Mercantilism | economic system by which England made money off the american colonies |
salutary neflect | england's unofficial policy of not enforcing laws in north america |
parliament | the legislature, or law making body of england |
french and indian war | war that was caused by a rivalry between elngalnd and france over the ohio river valley |
ohio river valley | region west of the Appalachian mountains; england and france's rivalry here led to the french and indian war |
fort loudoun | fort in south carolina in which the cherokee massacred a group of english soldiers that surrendered to them in the french and indiand war |
albany plan of union | proposal by benjamin franklin to unite the colonies against the french and the native americans |
join or die cartoon | drawing made by benjamin franklin of a snake cut into pieces; each part represented a colony |
Battle of Quebec | last major battle during the french and indian war, in which the british defeated the french; took place on the plains of abraham |
treaty of paris 1763 | treaty that ended the french and indian war, stated france lost all of its land in north america |
pontiacs rebellion | native american uprising around the great lakes region as a result of americans moving west |
proclamation of 1763 | english law passed because of pontiac's rebellion |
proclamation of 1763 | law issued by king george III that forbade Americans to settle west of the appalachian mountains |
sugar act | law passed to tax molasses in the colonies and stop smuggling |
quartering act | law passed by parliament that required american coloniests to house and feed british soldiers |
stamp act | law passed by parliament in 1765 that taxes all paper documents in the american colonies; sparked a wave of outrage because colonists had no representation in england |
declatory act | law passed by parliament after they repealed the stamp act, stated that they had the right to tax the colonies whenever they wanted |
boycott | refusal to buy a good or service to bring about a change of policy |
townshend acts | a series of taxes placed on imported goods like lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea; passed in 1767 |
writs of assistance | search warrants issued by redcoats to seize smuggled goods |
john adams | boston lawyer that defended the redcoats involoved in the boston massacre |
paul revere | boston silversmith that made an engraving of the boston massacre |
crispus attucks | african american sailor and patrion that was killed during the boston massacre |
boston massacre | occured in boston in 1770 when a mob of colonists harassed a group of redcoats who then fired into the crowd, killing five americans |
tea act | law passed in 1773 to gice the british east india company a monopoly on all tea sales in the colonies |
monopoly | total control by a single business over a product or industry |
boston tea party | organized protests by the sons of liberty in which they destroyed tea in the boston harbor because of the tea act |
intolerable acts | also called the coercive acts; series of laws passed by great britain to punish boston for the boston tea party; violated many of their freedoms |
sons of liberty | group of american colonists that were formed to protest unfair taxes passed by england |
samuel adams | leader of the sons of liberty; organized protests and the boston tea party |
committees of correspondence | a group of colonists that wrote letters to communicate with the rest of the colonies |
john hancock | wealthy smuggler from boston that helped organize and lead the sons of liberty |
impose | to force upon a group or person |