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Unit 2 Colonies Voca
Unit 2 Colonies Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 the 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 churches |
Denomination | a church organization like the Baptist or Methodist church |
Benjamin Franklin | American writer, printer, and inventor who 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 Neglect | England's unofficial 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 a rivalry between England and France over the Ohio River Valley |
Seven Years' War | war between England and France in Europe as part of the French and Indian War |
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 Cherokee massacred a group of English soldiers that surrendered to them in the French and Indian 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 |
Pontiac's Rebellion | Native American uprising around the Great Lakes region as a result of Americans moving West |
Proclamation of 1763 I | English law passed because of Pontiac's Rebellion |
Proclamation of 1763 II | 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 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 colonists 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 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 who defended the redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre |
Paul Revere | Boston silversmith who made an engraving of the Boston Massacre |
Crispus Attucks | African American sailor and patriot who was killed during the Boston Massacre |
Propaganda | a piece of media that tells a half truth to influence people |
Boston Massacre | occurred in Boston 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 the Boston Harbor because of the Tea Act |
Intolerable Acts | also called the Coercive Acts; a 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 who helped organize and lead the Sons of Liberty |
Impose | to force upon a group or person |