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AP US History
Units 4-6
| Chapter 4 Terms | Chapter 4 Definitions | Chapter 5 Terms | Chapter 5 Definitions |
|---|---|---|---|
| French & Indian War | Cause: territorial disputes between Indians & Britain Effect: Britain gained more land | Lexington & Concord | 1st battle of the American Revolution, outcome was British victory |
| George Washington | Young Colonel, started 7 Years War in Ohio Valley | Battle of Bunker Hill | Many British casualties, American victory |
| Albany Plan of Union | Developed by Benjamin Franklin, inter colonial gov't that taxed colonies for their own military purposes | Second Continental Congress | |
| Peace of Paris (1763) | Treaty after British victory from 7 Years War, France gave up their land & Britain got more control | ||
| Salutary Neglect | Britain had neglected their control over the colonies & stopped enforcing the Navigation Acts | ||
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Cause: Native Americans resisted control of their land & tribes Effect: Proclamation of 1763 | ||
| Proclamation of 1763 | Britain stopped colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains, colonists were angered by this | ||
| Sugar Act | Placed taxes on sugar & luxuries, frustrated colonists | ||
| Currency Act | Required colonists to pay British merchants in gold & silver, colonists were frustrated by this impossible Act | ||
| Stamp Act | Places taxes on paper good & legal documents, first direct tax, colonists developed the Stamp Act Congress & "no taxation without representation!" | ||
| Stamp Act Congress | Created by colonists after Stamp Act, decided that only colony representatives had authority to approve taxes | ||
| Declaratory Act | Gave British parliament authority over the colonies & enforced crown authority | ||
| Townsend Act | Taxes on tea & glass & paper, Britain could get a Writ of Assistance to search. colonial homes for smuggled goods, colonies created Committees of Correspondence | ||
| Writ of Assistance | What Britain needed to search a colonial home for smuggled goods, made for Townsend Act | ||
| Committees of Correspondence | Founded by Samuel Adams, exchanged letters to colonies about news from British | ||
| Tea Act | made price of British Tea cheaper so colonists wouldn't smuggle tea & it hurt colonists tea merchants, colonists enacted the Boston Tea party in response | ||
| Quartering Act (1774) | required colonists to provide food & housing for British soldiers | ||
| Intolerable Acts | Port act (stopped Boston Port until destroyed tea was paid for), Mass Gov't Act (reduced power of colonies), Admin of Gov't Act (allowed royal officials accused would be trialed in Britain), Quartering Act | ||
| Intolerable Acts (colonists response) | Colonists convened First Continental Congress & declaration of colonial rights | ||
| Boston Massacre (1770) | happened after Townsend Acts, British troops were taunted by angry colonists & troops fired & killed 5 colonists, the colonists were quick to spread this violent news |
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