this big spender would be self-educated and become one the promient thinkers of this time
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
known internationally as the Seven Year's War, this could very well be considered the first World War
What is the French and Indian War?
100
passed by George Grenville, this act banned paper money as legal tender in the colonies
What is the Currency Act of 1764?
100
center of American revolution
What is Boston?
100
single most important battle of the revolution
What is Saratoga?
200
practical leader and founder of the American Great Awakening
Who is George Whitefield?
200
one general government...be formed in America, including all the said colonies
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
200
smugglers like John Hancock hated this 3 pence per gallon tax which was created to replace the wildly ignored Molasses Act of 1733?
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
200
death of Crispus Attucks and others would become a rallying call against the British in this truly non event
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
led by Richard Montgomery and the most famous traitor in American History
What is the invasion of Canada?
300
most known for his social contract theory and humans state of nature
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
architect of the British war effort against the French
Who is William Pitt?
300
Franklin would try to work out the issues between Parliment and the colonies when this act passed. Parliment said no to no taxation without representation
What is the Stamp Act?
300
the creations of these groups allowed for leaders to communicate with leaders in other colonies when they felt their liberties were being threatened
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
300
fiercely independent, this great, gathered the Armed Neutrality against the British during the American Revolution
Who is Catherine the Great of Russia?
400
Life Liberty and Property
Who is John Locke?
400
this short lived war convinced men like the Paxton Boys that the government was not adequately protecting colonist from Native Americans
What is Pontiac's War?
400
unlike the more rebellious Sons of Liberty, this group assured allegiance to the King, but protested the loss of American rights and liberties, especially the trial by jury
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
400
In response to the Coercive Acts, twelve of the mainland British colonies sent representatives to find a new plan for the colonies in September 1774
What is the Continental Congress?
400
recognition of independence, yielding of land stretching to the Mississippi, and a share of fisheries in the Newfoundland were promised in
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
500
Separation of powers and checks and balances
Who is Montesquieu?
500
all settlement past the Appalachian Mountains is forbidden
What is Proclamation of 1763?
500
unlike William Pitt, this Chancellor of the Exchequer had no sympathy for the colonies and promised to find new revenues in the Americas
Who is Charles Townshend?
500
government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed and can rightly be overthrown if it becomes destructive of these ends
What is the Declaration of Independnce?
500
would capture the forts at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vncennes, this man would be credited with the northern region of the Ohio River being ceded at Paris