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Exam 1 - Part 2
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History
Undergraduate 1
10/15/2012

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Term
Relationship between New England and the Colonies prior to 1750s
Definition
Loose Control
Salutary Neglect
Economic Policy of Mercantilism
Navigations Acts - 1650s
Term
Navigation Acts
Definition
series of laws that restricted use of foreign shipping for trade between england and its colonies. Their goal was to stop direct trade with European countries.
Term
French and Indian War
Definition
1754-1763
The French and Indians versus the British
General Braddock is sent from Britain to defeat the French
Term
French and Indian War
Definition
1756-1763
Britian: 1.2 milliion colonists
French 100,000 colonists
French and Natives were allies.
Struggle at Ohio Valley (Fort Duqense)
George Washington
surrenders
Term
Effects of the French and Indian War
Definition
French had the advantage
There was scalp taking which was a British Tactic
Indians chose the lesser of two evils- the French
General Braddock brought 1400 redcoats only 500 survived
Washington escaped and Braddock was killed
Term
Treaty of Paris Facts
Definition
Frensch lost N. American Empire, but kept New Orleans
Great Britain returned Cuba and Philippines to Spain and got Florida in return.
France and Spain were destroyed.
Americans took pride.
Greate Britain dominated New World
Term
Sugar Acts Facts
Definition
passed in 1764
-3 pence per gallon on all imported molasses, wine, coffee, indigo, sugar
-enforced by port authority and vice admiralty courts
disrupted the trade with other countries
protests and boycotts result of this
Term
Stamp Act
Definition
Tax on legal documents, pamphlets, leases, deeds, insurance policies, playing cards, college diplomas. Exaggerated "no taxations without representations"
-caused the most protest because it affected everyone: parades, bonfires, and near riots occurred.
Term
Stamp Act Reactions
Definition
*Stamp Act Congress Resolutions
*Declaration of Rights and Grievances
*Sons of Liberty
_Boycot of British merchandise
*Stam Act reprealed and Sugar Tax reduced when London Merchants' screamed
Term
Almanac picture
Definition
showed the lietenant governor Thomas Hutchinosn whose howse had been destroyed in riots 9 years earlier. The devil carries a list of Hutchinson's crimes.
Term
British attempted to control the colonies through
Definition
Declaratory Act 1766
Townshend Act 1767
Quarter Act - 1767
Term
Declaratory Act of 1766
Definition
affirmed Parliament's authority to "make all laws and statutes" binding on colonies
Term
Townshend Act of 1767
Definition
tax on paint, glass, paper, and imported tea
Term
Quartering Act
Definition
colonists were ordered to provide the basic needs of soldiers stationed on the border
Term
Quartering Act Effects
Definition
New boycotts united for common cause; New York refuses to comply with the Quartering Act,
Daughters of Liberty begin spinning
Term
Boston Massacre
Definition
March 5, 1770
15,000 Boston citizens
4,000 British army
*5 die
*Committees of Correspondence formed
Term
Daughters of Liberty
Definition
consisted of women who displayed their laoyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods.
*used thier skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric which made America less dependent ofn British products
Term
What was the Boston Tea Party about?
Definition
Monopoly on Tea from East India Company
Tea had to pass through loyal merchants
150 men dressed as Natives
3 tons of tea dumped
Term
Closed Boston Harbor
Definition
Last straw
Term
Intolerable Acts and New Quartering Act
Definition
Could occupy any building
Trials could be transferred to Britain
Term
Common Sense
Definition
Thoman Paine's influential pamphlet denouncing the idea of hereditary rule and calling for American independence
Term
1st Continental Congress
Definition
September 1774 in Philadephia with 56 delegates. Not Georgia
Suffolk resolves.
Opposed to coercive acts
Term
Program of Economic Retaliation
Definition
nonimprtation, non consumption, commercial warfare
* Britain claims it an illegal assembly and will not send a delegate to negotiate
Term
2nd Continental Congress
Definition
*Decide to raise and army
*Appoint George Washington to lead it
*Thomase Paine publishes Common Sense and gives argument for independence
*French help the colonists
Term
Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
Definition
*Appealed to the natural rights of man
*Listed imperial oppressions
*Justified actins by indicting the King
*Celebrated individual liberties and right ot popular sovereignty
Term
George Washington
Definition
*Wealthy Virginia Family
*Militie leader during French and Indian War
*Member of the House of Burgess and Continental Congress
*Led the Continental Army
*Christmas Day attack
Term
John Adams describes George Washington
Definition
"I had but one gentelman in my mind for that important command, and that was a gentelmen from Virginia who was among us and very well nown to all of us, a gentlemna whose skill and experience as an officer....
Term
Deborah Sampson
Definition
donned men's clothes to fight in the War of Independence
Term
How was the war paid for?
Definition
Borrowed 8 million from citizens
5.5 million financed by states
240 million issued in paper money
Term
How was the war paid for?
Definition
Borrowed 8 million from citizens
5.5 million financed by states
240 million issued in paper money
Term
Surrender at Yorktown
Definition
1781
Term
Treaty of Paris
Definition
September 3, 1783
Recognized American Independence
Set Boundaries:
West - Mississippi
North 49th parallel
South 31st parallel
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