18th Century Colonies
Religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
Founder of New France.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
The French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.
What was the Seven Years' War?
1650 British law requiring the colonies to only trade with British ships.
What were the Navigation Acts?
Required the colonists to feed and house troops.
What was the Quartering Act?
Preached the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
Name one of the two major French settlements in Canada.
What are Quebec and Montreal?
His unit fired the first shots of the war.
Who was George Washington?
Line that forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
1765 act that required the colonists to pay taxes on paper.
What was the Stamp Act?
Famous preacher who toured the U.S. during the Great Awakening.
Who was George Whitefield?
Disputed area claimed by France and Britain that led to the French and Indian War.
What was the Ohio River Valley?
Turning point battle of the war.
What was the Battle of Quebec?
In 1754, 7 of the 13 colonies met for an intercolonial meeting called this after Ben Franklin published his famous “Join or Die” cartoon.
What was the Albany Congress?
The seizing of this ship belonging to John Hancock led to riots that caused Britain to send 4,000 troops to Boston.
What was the Liberty?
Established church in most of New England.
What was the Congregational Church?
Explored the Mississippi and claimed Louisiana for France.
Who was Robert de LaSalle?
1763 conflict in the Ohio Valley between Native Americans and settlers.
What was Pontiac's Rebellion?
Lack of British enforcement if its laws in the colonies.
What was salutary neglect?
1767 acts that required the colonists to pay taxes on every day items such as paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What were the Townshend Acts?
Pennsylvania farmers who attack Native Americans then march on Philadelphia in 1763.
Who were the Paxton Boys?
Tribe that allied with France against the Iroquois.
Who were the Huron?
France gave Quebec to Britain and Louisiana to Spain in this agreement.
What was the Treaty of Paris 1763?
A country’s economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold or silver in its treasury.
What is mercantilism?
Concept that meant every Parliament member represented all British subjects.
What was virtual representation?