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Unit Two Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Jonathan Edwards | preacher during First Great Awakening, famous sermon "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 1700's that united the colonies and led to more churches. |
Denomination | a church organization like Methodist or Baptist Church |
Benjamin Franklin | American writer, printer, and inventor that proposed the Albany Plan of Union. |
Navigation Acts | a series of laws passed by England to insure that colonist traded with England |
Mercantilism | a series of laws passed by which England made money off the American Colonies. |
Salutary Neglect | England's unofficial policy of not inforcing laws in North America |
Parliament | the legisture, or law making body, of England |
French and Indian War | War that was caused by a rivarly between England and France over the Ohio River Valley. |
Seven Years War | War between England and France in Europe as a part of the French and Indian War. |
Ohio River Valley | region west of the Appalachian Mountains; England and France rivalry here led to French and Indian War. |
Fort Loudoun | fort in South Carolina in which Cherokee massacred a group of English settlers that surrounded them in the French and Indian War. |
Albany Plan of Union | proposal by Benjamin Franklin to unit the colonies against the French and Native Americans |
"Join or Die" Cartoon | drawing made by Benjamin Franklin of a snake cut up into pieces; each part represented a colony |
Battle of Quebec | last major battle in 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 laws passed because of Pontiacs Rebellion |
Proclamation of 1763 | Law issued by King George lll that forbade Americans to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
Sugar Act | laws passed to tax molasses in the colonies and stop smuggling |
Quatering Act | law passed by Parliament that required American colonists to house and feed British soldiers |
Stamp Act | law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed all paper documents in the American colonies; sparked a wave of outrage because colonist had no representation in England. |
Declaratory 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 Act | 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 involved in the Boston Massacre. |
Paul Revere | Boston silversmith that made an engraving of the Boston Massacre |
Crispus Attucks | African American sailors and patriot that was killed in the Boston Massacre |
Propaganda | a piece of media that tells a half truth to influence people |
Boston Massacre | occured in Boston in 1770 when a mob of colonists harrased a group of redcoats who then fired into the crowd killing 5 Americans |
Tea Act | Law passed in 1773 to give 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 protest 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 by England |
Samuel Adams | Leader of the Sons of Liberty; organized protest and the Boston Tea Party |
Committees of Correspondence | a group of colonists that wrote a letter to commuinicate with the rest of the colony |
John Handcock | wealthy smugglers from Boston that helped organize and lead the Sons of Liberty |
impose | to force upon a group or person |