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Unit 2, Page 1 notes
Notes based off Unit 2, Page 1 notes.
Term | Definition |
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Navigation Acts | The act restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. |
Parliament | Representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. |
Ohio River Valley | The _____ was the epicenter of a major global war. |
French and Indian War | 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 | The French and Indian War. |
Albany Plan of Union | The _____ was a rejected plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. The plan was suggested by Benjamin Franklin. |
King George III | _____ was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820. |
Fort Duquesne | Fort ____ was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. It was later taken over by the British, and later the Americans, and developed as Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. |
Battle of Jumonville Glen | The Battle of _____, also known as the ______ affair, was the opening battle of the French and Indian War, fought on May 28, 1754, near present-day Hopwood and Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. |
Treaty of Paris of 1763 | Ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. |
Benjamin Franklin | One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, he represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. |
Battle of Quebec | The Battle of _____ was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. |