British North America and American Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
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 General Wolfe | commander of a British fleet sailed to Quebec and defeated French Troops that were defending the city, British seized Quebec and took control of New France |
| General Montcalm | Led a succesful British attack on Quebec, commander in the French and Indian War; took Fort William Henry |
| Acadians | French residents of Nova Scotia, many of whom were uprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south as Louisiana, where their descendants became known as "Cajuns". (116) |
| Lord Selkirk | : A Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony |
| North West Company | a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada |
| Red River Colony | settlement on the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now Manitoba and North Dakota, founded 1812 by the earl of SELKIRK. |
| Metis | inhabitants of the area around Red River. They were of mixed blood-French and Scottish fur traders and natives |
| Pemmican War | Battle between the Metis native peoples and the Governor Macdonell at Fort Douglas and the HBC; started when trading pemmican outside the colony was forbidden. |
| United Empire Loyalist | American colonist loyal to Great britain, who relocated to canada after the american revolution |
| Upper Canada | first created in 1791, this region of Canada had an English speaking majority. ("up" the river of St.Lawrence) |
| Lower Canada | first created in 1791, this region of Canada had a French speaking majority ("down" the river of St.Lawrence) |
| Treaty of Paris ( 1763) | The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War in Europe and the parallel French and Indian War in North America. Under the treaty, Britain won all of Canada and almost all of the modern United States east of the Mississippi. |
| Montrealers | People from Montreal, worked for NWC |
| Guy Carleton | The first British Governor in BNA. He also fought in the American Revolutionary war for the British side. |
| Royal Proclamation (1763) | proclamation on land treaties by the British establishing two important principles for negotiations: a) land ownership rights of the First Nations must be respected; b) if a First Nation did choose to give up land, it should receive a fair payment for it |
| Pontiac Warriors | (1720-1769) Pontiac, a heroic warrior who united previously feuding tribes in an unprecedented resistance to the men who would change their way of life and the face of their land forever |
| Thirteen Colonies | British colonies to the south of Quebec. |
| Quebec Acts (1774) | Desc: -reorganizes Canada and the Ohio River Valley -dismisses any claims the 13 colonies have to that land Effect: -Angers the middle and southern colonies that claim land in Ohio River Valley |
| Continental Congress (1774) | meeting of reps in Philadelphia to denounce Intolerable Acts and petition British Parliament. Discussed breaking from England |
| The Stamp Act (1765) | Law that required colonies to use stamped paper produced in London for any materials that were printed and distributed in the colonies. |
| Boston Massacre (1770) | The colonials hated the British soldiers in the colonies because the worked for very low wages and took jobs away from colonists. On March 4, 1770, a group of colonials started throwing rocks and snowballs at some British soldiers; the soldiers panicked and fired their muskets, killing a few colonials. This outraged the colonies and increased anti-British sentiment. |
| Sons of Liberty | Secret societies formed to protest new taxes passed by Parliament. Led the Boston Tea Party and threatened tax collectors. |
| Boston Tea Party (1773) | Colonial response to the Tea Act; colonists disguised as Indians boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped tea into the harbor |
| General Gage | British general in the Revolution. He was commander in chief of the North American forces and military governor of the Province of MA Bay. |
| George Washington | Virginian, patriot, general, and president. Lived at Mount Vernon. Led the Revolutionary Army in the fight for independence. First President of the United States. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Virginian, architect, author, governor, and president. Lived at Monticello. Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Second governor of Virgina. Third president of the United States. |
| King George III | King of England, stubborn, stupid, levied taxes even though he knew colonist would hate it, poor ruler, passed Quartering Act, hated colonists, wanted to show who's in charge |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | First major battle of the Revolutionary War; it actually took place at nearby Breed's Hill, Massachusetts, on June 17, 1775. |
| Battle of Yorktown | final battle of the war, in which French and American forces led by George Washington defeated British General Cornwallis |
| American Declaration of Independence | The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. ... . |
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