People
He was king during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
This term is used to describe a complex racial hierarchy developed by Hispanic authorities.
What is "castas"?
Think: at the bottom (Indians and Africans), in the middle: (mixed race peoples) and at the top: lighter-skinned Spaniards
The year the Seven Years' War began and the year it ended.
What is 1754-1763?
What is 1/5 with largest numbers coming from the Carolinas and the Chesapeake colonies?
This amount of the annual budget during the mid 1760s went to servicing the debt.
What is 5 million pounds?
He drafted the "Albany Plan" around which 7 colonies met during the summer of 1754 to improve their coordination by proposing a daring plan of colonial union.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Note - the Albany Plan would have a "Grand Council" chosen by colonists and a Crown-appointed "President General" to serve as the executive.
Term used to describe an opponent to the crown appointed governor, who claimed to defend his colonial liberty and property against the grasp of a greedy governor and his minions.
What is a "patriot"?
Note - when a new governor arrived, the sides often switched (one year's court men could become next year's patriots)
Ironically losing a battle of July 4, 1754, this general was sent to Fort Duquesne (present day Pittsburgh) to out the French garrison. Note: early descriptions of his military abilities are unexperienced and rash
Who is George Washington?
This percentage of slaves in the middle colonies reflects the fact that most farms were family run.
What is less than 10% of the population?
During the Seven Years' War, he commanded the Royal Navy making explorations within the Pacific and therefore, made the Spanish worry about losing their lucrative commerce routes (think Peru/Mexico and Philippines/China and silver).
Who is Captain James Cook?
Who was General Edward Braddock?
Named after a Spanish-ruling dynasty, this reform (during the 1760s and 1770s) promoted economic development and strengthened fortifications and garrison.
What are the "Bourbon Reforms"?
The years George Whitefield took his evangelical show on the road in the British colonies.
What is 1739-1741?
Pitt was able to get colonial cooperation through reimbursing colonial legislatures this fraction of the military expenditure.
What is 2/5?
What is the term "American" was too closely associated with cultural degradation with Indians and enslaved Africans).
After losses at Fort Duquesne, and along the Great Lakes and in Europe, Britain appointed this person as their new Secretary of State for the Southern Development.
Who is William Pitt?
These two terms (one is Spanish and one is French) both refer to mixed offspring where one parent (usually the female) is of native descent.
What is "mestizos" and "metis"?
King George III was crowned this year.
What is 1760?
Between the years 1720 and 1770, colonial imports increased by this percentage.
What is 50%?
Note - the colonial economy grew from 4% of England's gross domestic product in 1700 to 40% in 1770.
The British American colonies paid this amount in tax per capita.
What is 1 shilling (whereas those in England paid 26 shillings)?
This describes Britain's "mixed constitution".
What is "The one, the few and the many"?
The one (monarch led executive branch)
The few (aristocrats led the House of Lords)
The many (propertied common people elected the House of Commons)
Prior to the Crown managing the colonies, this term referred to those with private interests who founded and managed the colonies in the early 17th century (they could obtain title and sell colonial lands as well as appointing governors)
What are "proprietors"?
Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War, occurred during this month and in this year.
What is February 1763?
What is 2/3 in British America vs 1/4 in Britain?
After the Seven Years' War, the national debt of Britain increased by this many British pounds.
What is 59 million pounds?
Note - prewar national debt was 74 million pounds and post war was 133 million pounds.