Question | Answer |
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England and France | feared and were competitive with each other |
Native Americans lived on | lands owned by both countries. |
French left Natives | alone |
British | did not |
French and British land at | The Ohio River valley |
The French began to build | forts to protect The Ohio River valley |
The governor sent____to tell the french to leave/live | George Washington |
Militia | group of civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army. |
Washington returned to | build a fort |
Washington's troops attached | a small French force |
This began the | French and Indian War. |
meeting of the colonial leaders | The Albany Congress |
Purpose | get the colonies to help defeat the french |
Alliance | agreement between nations or groups to help each other against other nations or groups |
The Albany Pan of Union created by | Benjamin Franklin |
The Albany of congress would | control western settlements |
The Albany of congress would | handle relations with Native Americans |
The Albany of congress could | organize armies and collected taxes |
colonists rejected the plan | They wanted to sell their own taxes and control their own armies |
General Edward Braddock | British Military official |
General Edward Braddock is used to | fighting in formation in open fields |
General Edward Braddock would | march his men, wearing red coats, in a single line on a narrow path to Fort Duquesne |
General Edward Braddock(he and his men) | he and half of his men were killed |
Britain declared war on | France |
Seven Years War included | most major world powers at the time |
William Pitt | prime minister of Britain |
James Wolfie | one of Britain's top generals |
The British captured | Fort Duequesne |
British Renamed Fort Duequesne | Fort Pitt |
Some Iroquois tribes started to | slide with this British |
Pitt and his men captured | Queber |
without Quebec and France could no longer | control most of its North American territory |
Treaty of Paris | ended the sevens year war |
France | ceded most if territory |
cede | surrender |
Britain gained French | Canada all French territory east of the Mississippi, and florida |
Pontiac leader of the | Ottawa nation, formed and alliance with other Native American groups. |
Pontiac's War started | a war against the British colonists in order to protect Native Americans lands. |
The Proclamation of 1763 | Declared that colonists could not live west of the Appalachian Mountains colonists become angry |
A difference of Opinion | Britain's raises taxes |
A difference of Opinion(war) | war left them in debt |
A difference of Opinions believed | believed it was the colonists duty to help with the debt, colonists react |
Colonists | angry Britain |
Britain and colonists | tensions rise |
The sugar act(placed a duty) | or import tax, on several products like sugar and molasses |
Sugar Act | harsher punishment to smugglers |
Result of the Sugar Act | colonists had to pay more money for the goods they needed |
This Quartering Act | colonists had to give troops a place to live, feed them, and make sure they had supplies. |
The colonists felt | this was a violation of their rights |
The stamp Act | Required that colonists purchase special tax stamps. |
The stamp act(ex) | newspapers, licenses, contracts, other documents |
colonial response | protests by civilians and the House of Burgesses |
Boycotts | por refuses to buy certain products, or British goods |
Pretitions | or written requests to government, calling requests to government, calling for an end to the stamp |
Patrick Henry | speech about the act |
Win | 1766- Parliament repealed the act |
lose | 1766-Parliament passes the Declaratory Act |
Win-Lose | stated that Parliament had total authority over the colonies |
townshed acts | stated that" Britains would not tax products of activities inside the colonies Britain would tax products imported to the colonies |
Writs of Assistence | or court orders that allowed officials to make searched without saying what they are looking for |
used to? | used to enforce the townshed acts |
colonists began to | Boycott British goods |
The Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770 |
townshed acts were repealed except for | tax on tea |
group of sailors threw | rocks and soldiers at a small group of soldiers |
crispus attucks | and African American sailor and the first person to die in the name of American Independence |
John Adams | defended the soldiers from the Boston Massacre, he supported colonial rights, he believed that every person had the right to a lawyer and a fair trial |
Committee of Correspondence | Established by Samuel Adams (cousin of J Adams) |
This committee | kept colonists in communication with each other |
kept them | informed of britains activities,wrote letters and pamphlets in order to unite colonists in opposition to British actions |
The Tea Act | declared that: Prices of tea would be lowered |
The East India Company | which |
Chapter 5: Hiatory notes on chapter 5