Named Wars
The British launch expeditions to capture Quebec from the French... ultimately the fail and have their frontier settlements burned by American Indians instead
What is King William's War?
Law that Placed duties on foreign sugar and certain luxuries
What is The Sugar Act (1764) ?
What is The Gaspee?
Acts that punished the people of Boston in an attempt to bring them under control.
What is the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) ?
These Enlightenment thinkers believed in a God that rarely intervened in human affairs
What is Deists?
The war in where a Georgian army captured Louisbourg, a major French fortress.
What is King George's War?
Duties from Parliment that allowed for the Searching of private homes and duties on imports such as tea, glass, and paper.
What is The Townshend Acts (1767) ?
Letter in where John Dickinson argues for colonial representatives in parliment.
What is Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania?
Event where Boston residents disgused as American Indians and dumped 342 chest of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Enlightenment ideal that trusted human reason to understand the natural world
What is Rationalism?
Peace Treaty that led to the aqusition of Louisiana by the British
What is the Peace of Paris (1763)?
British Government's proclomation that colonist could not settle West of the Appalachian Mountains. Angered the colonist.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Secret society whose purpose was to intimidate tax agents.
What is the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
Event where British guards fire into a crowd of people, killing five. Used to inflame anti-British feeling.
A popular book written by Thomas Paine that argued for colonies becoming independent states
What is Common Sense?
Beginning in 1754, this is know as the final war in this series of named Wars and resulted in the British victory.
What is the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)?
What is The Declaratory Act (1766) ?
Meeting of representatives from nine colonies. Resolved that only elected representatives had the authority to approve taxes.
Gathering of delegates in a convention in Florida to respond to British's threats to liberty
What is the First Continental Congress?
Unalienable rights mention to justify the reason of revolution
What is Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?
The British gain Novia Scotia from France and Trading Rights in Spanish America. They are more successful in this war as compared to others...
What is Queen Anne's War?
Law that established Roman Catholicism as the as the official religion of Quebec. Viewed as a direct attack on American colonies.
What is the Quebec Act (1774) ?
1763 Attack by American Indians on colonial settlements of the Western Frontier.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
King George III's law that declared the colonies in rebellion on August 1775
What is the Prohibitory Act?
Concept of an agreement among people to form a government that promoted liberty and equality
What is the Social Contract?