People's Names
Navigated to the Americas in 1492.
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Christopher Columbus
Definition: A British law that taxed sugar and molasses imported by the colonies.
Context: One of the first laws that angered colonists and led to protests.
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Sugar Act
Definition: A conflict between Britain and France in North America (1754–1763).
Context: Led to British control of more territory and increased colonial tensions.
French and Indian War
Colonies like Virginia and Georgia with warm climate, large plantations, and a focus on farming cash crops.
Southern Colonies
Jobs related to the sea, like fishing, shipbuilding, and trading.
Maritime Industries
Definition: An Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights and government by consent. Historical Context / Example: His ideas inspired the Declaration of Independence and American democracy.
John Locke
Referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts
1774 Coercive or Intolerable Acts
Definition: Women who supported the colonial resistance.
Context: Made homemade goods to support boycotts of British products.
Daughters of Liberty
Colonies in the northeastern part of America (like Massachusetts and Rhode Island) known for cold winters, rocky soil, and small farms.
New England Colonies
Definition: The idea that people give up some freedoms to a government in exchange for protection of rights. Historical Context / Example: Central to Enlightenment thinking; influenced American political philosophy.
Social Contract
Definition: A leader of colonial resistance in Massachusetts.
Context: Helped organize protests and the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
The colonist dressed up like Indians and dumped something in the Bay because of this Act passed by the Parliament.
Tea Act
Definition: A secret group that opposed British policies.
Context: Used protests and sometimes violence to resist British rule.
Sons of Liberty
Britain/England/UK used this....An economic system where colonies exist to benefit the mother country.
Context: Britain used this system to control colonial trade and increase wealth.
Mercantilism
: Strengthened by the Zenger trial; protected in the First Amendment.
Freedom of the Press
This Virginia leader is infamous for saying “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
Ordered colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers
Quartering Act
Definition: A formal written request to a government.
Context: Colonists used petitions to express opposition to British laws.
Petition
Definition: Agreement that ended the French and Indian War.
Context: France gave up most of its North American territory to Britain.
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Great Awakening
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A religious revival movement in the 1700s that emphasized personal faith. Historical Context / Example: United colonists and encouraged ideas of equality and questioning authority
Gained early experience during the French and Indian War. Who later became the first U.S. President.
George Washington
Definition: A meeting of colonial representatives to oppose the Stamp Act.
Context: Helped unify the colonies against British taxation.
Stamp Act Congress
Definition: Refusing to buy goods as a form of protest.
Context: Colonists boycotted British goods to protest unfair taxes.
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Boycott
Definition: A key French city in Canada.
Context: Captured by the British in 1759, marking a turning point in the French and Indian War.
Quebec
John Peter Zenger
A printer who was tried for criticizing the government in his newspaper. Historical Context / Example: His trial in 1735 helped establish freedom of the press in America.