..::HISTORY UNIT 5 TEST::..
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1755 | Braddock's defeat |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| 1765 | Stamp act |
| 1767 | Townshend Acts |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | 1st Cont. Congress meets |
| 1775 | 1st battles of the Rev. War |
| 1760 | George the 3rd crowned king |
| 1759 | Battle of Quebec |
| 1763 | Treaty ends F&I War |
| George Grenville | British leader who introduced the stamp and sugar acts |
| George Washington | young surveyor sent to remove the French from the Ohio R Valley |
| Robert Dinwiddie | governor of virginia who wanted the french out of the ohio Vally |
| Patrick Henry | he said give me liberty or give me death |
| James Wolfe | British general killed during the Battle of Quebec |
| Ben Franklin | introduced the Albany plan of Union to 7 colonies |
| William Pitt | became the new British minister in 1757 & had a plan to defeat the French |
| James Otis | Boston lawyer who called for a meeting to discuss Stamp Act |
| Sam Adams | Boston brewer & a leader of the sons of liberty |
| Thomas Gage | British general who was put in charge of Boston |
| sugar act | Tax on imported molasses from the West indies |
| Quebec Act | closed off all lands west of the applachians made these lands part of canada made to punish ppl of boston for the tea party |
| Navigation Act | Laws passed in the 1600's but never enforced util the 1760's |
| Boston Port Bill | Closed port of boston, put Mass. unbder military rule, made thomas gage new governor |
| Declaratory Act | parlament has the power to make laws for the colonies |
| Stamp Act | Made all printed material and documents more expensive |
| Quartering Act | Americans had to feed and house British troops |
| Townshend Acts | tax on paper and glass |
| Proclamation of 1763 | closed off all lands west of the applachian to settlements by americans |
| Tea Act | act that helped the British east Co sell tea cheaper than colonial merchants / stil small tax on tea |
| philadelphia | where was the 1st cont. congress meeting held |
| Ohio River valley | area of dispute between france and GB |
| Battle of quebec | what was the turning point battle in the war that changed the outcome of the war |
| 7 year war | what was the name of the war that was fought in NA |
| Ft duquesne | what was the name of the main French fort in the ohio valley |
| small pop of french settlers | list one french weakness |
| well trained army | list one french streangth |
| colonies werent united | list one british weakness |
| well trained army | list one british strength |
| GB | recived florida |
| GB | recieved all land east of missippi River including canada |
| Spain | recieved all land west of mississippi R louisiana |
| Spain | Recieved the port city of new orleans |
| French | lost all land in NA |
| intolerable acts | what did ppl of boston call the boston port bill |
| British and east india Co | what british company was allowed to bring tea into the colonies at a reduced tax rate |
| Boston | what city had a tea party |
| ceize guns of minutemen | British troop were sent into the Mass. ciyntryside to do these 2 things |
| arrest Sam adams & John hancock | in what 2 mass towns were the 1st 2 battles of the Rev. War fought |
| writz of assistance | name of the search warrants used by the british to look for smuggled goods |
| boycott | what tactic did the american colonist used to get the british to repeal the stamp act |
| war | what was the british goverment in debt |
| Mercy Otis Warren | wrote poems and plays about british not very nice ones |
| pontiac | chief of the ottowa tribe had a rebellion |
| imports | goods brought into a country |
| tarrifs | a taxd on imported goods |
| no taxation w/o representation | famous saying about taxes |
| Edmund burke | member of parlament that was a friend of the colonies |
| 5 | how many americans werekilled at the boston massacre |
| committees of correspondence | this group had a letter changing system from colony to colony |
| Daniel Boone | famous settler founded settlement of boonesborough |
| settlers | these were ppl who moved west to build their homes and settle new land |
| albany plan of union | this provided for common defence of the colonies |
| deerfield | this town in nw Mass was wiped out |
| prussia | GB allie(s) |
| austria, russia, & spain | france allie(s) |
| geurrilla warfare | this was a type of warfare that french used |
| hudson | the mohawk river is a tributary of the |
| different religions | hidden reason of the war |
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