Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Another name for the Seven Years War
What is the French and Indian War?
Legislation that taxed all paper items; united the colonists behind "no taxation without representation!"
What is the Stamp Act?
What is the Quartering Act?
Paul Revere's midnight ride led to these first battles of the Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
Defeated in 1588 by the English; advanced their settlement of the New World
First representative democracy in the US
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Thomas Paine's pamphlet written as propaganda for the independence movement
Last battle of the American Revolution
Reasons the English, Spanish, and French settled the New World
Group of investors who purchased the rights to establish plantations from the King
What is a joint stock company?
What is the Enlightenment?
Allowed British officers to search American ships without a search warrant to enforce mercantilist policies.
What are Writs of Assistance?
Turning point of the Revolution after the French came to the aid of the Americans
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Period between 1600-1700 when the British ignored the American colonies and self government began to develop
What is salutary neglect?
Intercolonial network proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 to collect taxes and provide colonial defense.
What was the Albany Plan of the Union?
Series of laws that were meant to punish Bostonians after the Boston Tea Party: closed Boston Harbor, increased power of the military governor, etc.
What are the Intolerable/ Coercive Acts?
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783?
Free points!
Free points!
Who is John Locke?
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What is the Olive Branch Petition?