PEOPLE & IDEAS
This Puritan minister’s preaching helped spark the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Both Hobbes and Locke used this idea to describe life before or without civil government.
What is the state of nature?
This contested interior region became a major source of conflict between Britain and France.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This 1763 policy restricted colonial settlement west of a boundary line.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This congress met in 1754 to discuss colonial unity and defense.
What is the Albany Congress
This religious revival encouraged personal religious experience and helped spread ideas of equality.
What is the Great Awakening?
This thinker described the state of nature as violent conflict and insecurity.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
George Washington suffered an early defeat at this 1754 site.
What is Great Meadows?
This 1765 law taxed legal documents, newspapers, and other internal transactions.
What is the Stamp Act?
In this year Parliament passed the Stamp Act.
What is 1765?
This political and social philosophy emphasizes individual freedom.
What is Liberalism?
This thinker argued that government exists to protect natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This French fort in the upper Ohio region was later captured by Britain and renamed Pittsburgh.
What is Fort Duquesne?
This 1766 law claimed Parliament could bind the colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
What is the Declaratory Act?
This 1770 event was used by resistance leaders to stir anger against British rule.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Locke said people possess these three rights by nature.
What are life, liberty, and property?
For Hobbes, people surrendered their freedoms to a sovereign ruler mainly to gain these two things.
What are peace and security?
DAILY DOUBLE: This city fell to British forces under Wolfe in 1759, a major turning point in the French and Indian War.
What is Quebec?
This tea policy helped provoke the destruction of tea in Boston Harbor.
What is the Tea Act?
This year included the Coercive Acts, the Quebec Act, and the First Continental Congress.
What is 1774?
This author of Common Sense argued that America should reject monarchy and choose republican government.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Unlike Hobbes, Locke argued that people give up only some freedoms when they form this agreement to create government.
What is the social contract?
This city became the meeting place of the Continental Congresses and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Philadelphia?
Colonists called these 1774 punishments of Boston and Massachusetts the “Intolerable Acts.”
What are the Coercive Acts?
These battles in April 1775 marked the beginning of armed fighting between colonial militia and British Redcoats.
What are Lexington and Concord?