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First Great Awakenin
First Great Awakening vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Edwards | Preacher during the first great awakening, famous sermon was "Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God". |
| George Whitefield | Preacher during the first great awakening, famous for preaching at large gatherings that were emotional. |
| First Great Awakening | Christian revival in the early 1700s that united colonies and lead to more churches. |
| Denomination | A church organization like the Baptist or Methodist church. |
| Benjamin Franklin | American writer, printer, inventor that proposed the Albany plan of Union. |
| Navigation Acts | Series of laws passed by England to ensure colonies only traded with them. |
| Mercantilism | Economic system by which english made money off the american colonies. |
| Salutary neglect | England's nonofficial policy of not enforcing laws in North America. |
| Parliament | The legislature or law making body of great britain. |
| French and Indian war | War that was caused by the rivalry between French and English over the Ohio river valley. |
| Seven Years War | War between England and France in Europe as a part of the French Indian war. |
| Ohio River Valley | Region west of Appalachian mountains: England and France's rivalry here lead to French Indian war. |
| Fort Loudoun | Fort in South Carolina in which Cherokee massacred a group of English soldiers that surrendered them in the French Indian war. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Proposed by Ben Franklin to unite colonies against the French and Native Americans. |
| "Join or Die¨ cartoon | Drawing made by Be Franklin of a snake cut into pieces; each representing one colony. |
| Battle of Quebec | Last major battle during the French Indian war in which the British defeated the French: took place on the plains of Abraham. |
| Treaty of Paris | Treaty that ended French Indian war, stated France lost all of its land in north america. |
| Pontiac's 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 colonist to house and feed British soldiers. |
| Stamp act | Law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed all paper documents in the American Colonies; sparked wave of outrage because colonists had no representation in England. |
| Declaratory Act | Law passed by Parliament after they repealed stamp act, stated that they had the colonies however they wanted. |
| Boycott | Refusal to buy a good or service to bring about a change in 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 Redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre. |
| Paul Revere | Boston silversmith that made an engraving of the Boston Massacre. |
| Crispus Attucks | African American sailor and patriot that was killed during the Boston Massacre. |
| Propaganda | Piece of media that tells half the truth to influence people. |
| Boston Massacre | Occurred 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 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 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. |
| Sons of Liberty | Group of American colonist that were formed to protest unfair taxes passed England. |
| Samuel Adams | Leader of the sons of liberty; organized protests and the Boston Tea Party. |
| Committees of Correspondance | Group of colonist that wrote letters to communicate with the other colonies. |
| John Hancock | Wealthy smuggler from Boston that helped organize and lead Sons Of Liberty |
| Impose | To force upon a group or person. |