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He believed that by creating one big land-speculating company (Grand Ohio Company) that it would reduce imperial tensions by working to reconcile colonial and British elites.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
In the 18th century, this place's population was doubling every 25 years mostly due to abundant land, early marriages and healthy conditions.
What are the colonies of British America?
With no government established in the West (think Proclamation Act of 1763), the area was administered by the military and these two Indian Superintendents.
Who is Colonel John Stuart and Sir William Johnson?
The Grand Ohio Company sought a royal grant of this many acres.
What is 20,000,000 acres?
In this month and year, Earl of Dunmore (through an agent) seized Fort Pitt and installed a garrison of pro-Virginian militia renaming it Fort Dunmore.
What is January 1774?
These vigilantes murdered peaceful Indians in December 1763 in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Additionally, none faced trial for their crimes.
Who are the "Paxton Boys"?
"Pontiac's Rebellion" was the name given to native uprisings at the forts in these three places.
What is Detroit, Niagara and Pittsburgh?
He was the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Northern colonies and agreed with Natives regarding "the great Thirst which we all seem to shew for their Lands".
Who is Sir William Johnson?
The Grand Ohio Company named their land grant this.
What is Vandalia?
Note - named in honor of the queen's German ancestors, The Vandals.
In relation to the Wappinger Indians and their land claims with NY, the Board of Trade concluded in this year that the government had behaved with unreasonable severity.
What is 1767?
This British Army commander build new forts without native permission and cut costs by stopping the customary delivery of diplomatic presents to chiefs.
Who is Sir Jeffrey Amherst?
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 ordered settlers to stay east of this place.
What is the Appalachians?
These Indians clung to 205,000 acres in NY and although the adapted to colonial culture, their villages were overtaken by speculating landlords.
Who are the Wappinger Indians?
This person, through his land agent, secured 25,000 acres of land and asked it kept secret wanting to avoid the publicity of a land grab or to prevent other land speculators any ideas.
Over the course of these two consecutive years, seven hundred NC regulators led by Henry Husband took clubs and firearms to their local sheriff.
What is 1770-1771?
He thought Britain should show some sort of restraint upon departures but the Crown lacked the means to police seaports and regulate departures.
Who is Earl of Hillsborough?
in 1774, Dunmore invaded Shawnee territory, outnumbered the Indians and ultimately, the Shawnees ceded land south of this river, including Kentucky.
What is the Ohio River?
Natives raided colonial settlements in these three colonies either killing or capturing 2000 colonisits.
What is Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia?
William Johnson ignoring instructions to purchase NO lands westward, secured a massive land cession from this treaty.
What is Treaty of Fort Stanwix?
On this date, Governor Tryon led 1100 militiamen into battle against 2500 regulators at the Battle of Alamance.
What is May 16, 1771?
In 1774, this Virginian insisted that the Quebec Act was "the worst grievance" suffered by colonists (namely, that a precedent was set by establishing a colonial government without an elected assembly).
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
In June 1774, this Act was passed restoring French civil law and providing support to the Catholic church.
What is the Quebec Act?
Note - Act also allowed Canadian Catholics to own land and to serve on government council.
In March 1775, the "Black Boys" ambushed a train carrying packhorses as gifts to Indians in the Ohio Valley. The Black Boys were an example of this, seeking to frustrate the government rather than overthrow it.
What is "Regulate"?
These three resented the empire's restrictions on their western ambition and grew angry as squatters began to occupy lands denied to speculators.
Who was Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington?
The year the Grand Ohio Company was established.
What is 1767?