Terms
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".
Acadians
Ottawa chief encouraged by the French people to rise up against the English. Afraid of losing Native American culture and land.
Pontiac
Duty on imported sugar from the West Indies. It was the first tax levied on the colonists who weren't use to such taxation (because of the Navigation Laws being ignored).Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac's War, prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachians.
Sugar Act
Killing of many protesters in a certain place that starts with the letter B.
Boston Massacre
Major war that forced the English to place all those tax laws and Acts onto the colonists to pay for the costs of the war
French and Indian War
Eighteenth-century British political commentators who agitated against political corruption and emphasized the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power. Made colonists aware of encroachments on their rights.
Radical Whigs
Son of liberty; loud agitator against the British; organizer of the committee of correspondence where after the Boston Massacre, used the event as propaganda and held a public funeral for the victims. Served as a governor to their own state.
Samuel Adams
Series of punitive measures passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, closing the port of Boston, revoking a number of rights in the Massachusetts colonial charter, and expanding the quartering act to allow for the lodging of soldiers in private homes.
Intolerable Acts
Form of protest against the British East India company's newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade where 342 chests of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor.
What was the issue with the Regulars?
BONUS: How did the colonists fight?
They weren't trained to fight like the colonists do; gorilla warfare
Used to try offenders for violating the various Navigation Acts. Argued by colonists that the courts encroached on their rights as Englishmen because they lacked juries and placed the burden of proof on the accused.
(BONUS: What amendment would this have broken?)
British prime minister whose ill-conceived duties on the colonies the Townshends Acts, sparked fierce protests in the colonies and escalated the imperial conflict.
Charles Townshend
Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac's War, prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachians.
Proclamation of 1763
First battles of the revolutionary war, fought outside of Boston.
BONUS: Why were the battles fought?
Battles of Lexington and Concord; British heard there was munition in Lexington so they went to sieze it, did the same for Concord except they lost lmao
In the Battle of Quebec, what general was depicted dying on a famous painting of it?
James Wolfe
Boycotts against British goods adopted in response to the Stamp Act, and later, the Townsend and intolerable Acts (English goods weren't imported). Most effective form of protests against British policies in the colonies.
Non important agreements
President of the Second Continental Congress. Became the first governor of Massachusetts.
John Hancock
Required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops.
Quartering Act
First global war that had battles happening on four different continents!!!!
Seven years' war
Why were the colonists caught off guard by so many of the tax laws and Acts placed by the English
AFTER THEY ANSWER: What law did tax them before the stamp act but was ignored?
They had previously not been taxed by the English; Navigation Laws
The set of habits, values, and character traits that drive citizens to put the common good ahead of their own special interests to help a society function well.
Civic Virtue
Runaway slave and leader of the Boston protests that resulted in the Boston Massacre. Was the first to die.
Crispus Attucks
Allowed the French residents of Quebec to retain their traditional political and religious institutions, and extended the boundaries of the province southward to the Ohio River.
Quebec Act
Famous battle that marked the end of French rule in North America after their surrender.
Battle of Quebec
George III was the first to speak English of what House?