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this was a European movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
What is The Enlightenment
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What is The Great Awakening (New Lights)
Supporters of the revival were called New Lights in New England and New Sides in the Middle Colonies: these emphasized primacy of emotions.
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was a land company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country and to trade with the Native Americans.
What is Ohio Company
100
what were the first four legit cities in america
New York , Philadelphia, Boston , Charleston
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What is Albany Plan of Union
was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by American Indian tribes); 1755-1760
what is the French and Indian War, 1754-1763
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What were the 3 beliefs of the Enlightenment philosophers?
all people are born with Natural Rights-life, liberty, and property. people must follow the General will, or opinion. government should include Separation of Powers so that no one group/person has complete control.
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The British treated the American Indians harshly compared to the French. The traditional gift giving had been abandoned and settlers advanced into the traditional Indian hunting grounds.
what caused the Pontiac’s War
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The proclamation, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them from their lands as they expanded westward
What is Proclamation Line of 1763
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what were the most populated cities in the colonies,
Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania , maryland
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In 1764, the ___________________, Scots-Irish group of settlers in Pennsylvania, demanded that the Quakers who dominated the colonial government suppress the Indians.
paxton boys
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why was thomas paine important
In 1776, he published Common Sense, a strong defense of American Independence from England
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regulator movement
In the ____________________ movement in North Carolina, composed of Scots-Irish settlers, challenged the control of the colony’s government by eastern elites. (American Pageant, Chap. 5)
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"Old Lights": those who believed in moderation, intellect, predestination, justification through works: men could attain salvation through time, exercise observation, instruction against enthusiasm.
What is The Great Awakening (old Lights)
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The acquittal of _______________________, a New York newspaper publisher,in 1735 was a major achievement in the movement toward freedom of speech in America.
John peter zenger
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this act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. this act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency
what is the Molasses Act (1733) & the Currency Act (1764)
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the American Enlightenment applied scientific reasoning to politics, science, and religion
What is The Enlightenment in America
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The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. The Mutiny Act of 1765 included a provision for quartering of troops in the American colonies.
What is the Sugar Act (1764)& the Mutiny Act (1765) (Quartering Act)
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an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City
what is the Stamp Act (1765) and the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
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What is the Declaratory Act (1766) and the Townshend Act (1767)
The Declaratory Act was a gesture of British Parliament reasserting its authority to pass taxes and laws on the colonies. Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act,
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the tea act was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. the boston tea party was on december 16 , 1773, about 100 bostonians disquised as indians boarded the docked ships and smashed open 342 chest of tea and dumped the contents in the atlantic
What is the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party
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was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party
What is the Coercive Acts, or, as they were called in the colonies, the Intolerable Acts
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What is the First Continental Congress (1774) and the Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774)
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia and the declaration of rights and grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
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ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)