England
He was King during the 1688 Glorious Revolution.
Who is King James II?
He is quoted as saying "Ministers are Kings in this country".
Who is King George III?
Remember the king exercised his executive power through the Privy Council (cabinet ministers from aristocracy but needing the majority support from the Commons).
This act closed the ports in British America to foreign rivals (think Dutch, French and Spanish).
What is the Navigation Acts of 1651?
The act also stated that the "enumerated commodies" of sugar and tobacco had to be shipped to Britain but other products (wheat and fish) could be shipped anywhere they found a market.
The Seven Years' War was known as this in British America.
What is the "French and Indian War"?
This percentage in the mainland colonies of British America lived in the countryside as farmers and planters.
What is 90%?
Note - in 1760 only 3 cities exceeded a population of 160K: NY, Boston and Philadelphia.
This is the term used to describe how Parliament and the Crown formed a new sovereign with a bicameral legislature made up of a House of Lords and a House of Commons.
What is "King-in-Parliament"?
Aristocrats inherited seats in the House of Lords
House of Commons elected mostly the gentry and merchants.
This is the name given to the offspring of a male Spanish colonist and an Indian wife?
What is "mestizos"?
This commodity ranked as the 3rd most valuable export from British America, only exceeded by West Indian sugar and Chesapeake tobacco.
Name for the plan that proposed a colonial union and would improve their military coordination.
What is the "Albany Plan" of 1754.
This fraction could vote in British America compared to those that could vote in Britain.
The Glorious Revolution plunged Britain into a prolonged war with this country.
What is France?
Think Catholic and France's desire to restore James II.
Name given to French peasants sent to Acadia and Canada to farm and to feed the fisherman, hunters and traders.
What is "Habitants"?
The slave trade killed this fraction of the enslavement (mostly due to the disease during the transit across the Atlantic).
What is 10 percent?
Name of the British general who joined the war to push back the French in Acadia and Ft. Dusquesne.
Term used to describe someone who sought to mange the law rather than destroy it.
What is a "Regulator"?
Colonists idealized their king as their champion against this.
What is Catholic enemies: France and Spain?
Name given to a few hundred Jamaican slaves who escaped and defended their autonomy in hills of Jamaica's underdeveloped interior.
Who are the Maroons?
With slave legal everywhere in British America, this is the only group of people who questioned the enslavement of Africans.
Who are the Quakers?
Note - 1775: 1/5 of total population was enslaved (most coming from the Carolinas and Chesapeake colonies), with only 2% of population in the NE and 8% of population in the middle colonies
Who is George Washington?
This day in November was Boston's version of Guy Fawkes Day (which honored the suppression of a Catholic plot to blow up parliament and the king in 1605).
What is November 5th (Pope's Day)?
This is who the King in Parliament needed cooperation from as the imperial wars became global.
What are colonial governments?
Here is the key compromise: the Crown accepted assemblies elected by property holders as responsible for setting taxes and appropriations within the colony.
This celebrated English evangelist took his show on the road to the colonies between the years 1739-1741.
Who is George Whitefiled?
He was a great promoter: used handbills, newspaper notices to build his celebrity and audiences. He hired a Phillie printer and publisher to help with the promotion: Ben Franklin
Virginia (1607), Massachusetts (1620), New Hampshire (1623), Maryland (1634), Connecticut (1636), Rhode Island (1636), Delaware (1638), North Carolina (1663), South Carolina (1663), New York (1664), New Jersey (1665), Pennsylvania (1681) and Georgia (1733)
He was named the new Secretary of State for the Southern Department in Britain due to the loss of Minorca (a prime navel base in the Mediterranean) to France.
Who is William Pitt?
Note - he reorganized Britain's military resources to conquer the French colonies in North America.
This is the term given to those to found and manage the colonies in the early part of the 17th century.
What is "proprietors"?
Note - they could obtain title and sell colonial lands, power to govern colonists, they appointed a governor. But during the 17th century most proprietors went bankrupt and then the Crown took over the proprietor's duties.