The Enlightenment
This movement preceded the Enlightenment and showed deep thinkers that the world could be explained through reasonable thinking and the scientific method.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
He represented both the Enlightenment in America through his political ideas and the Scientific Revolution in America through his work with electricity and inventions.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
What are the Plains of Abraham?
This official order made by the British parliament was the main effect of Pontiac's War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act of Parliament created a line that set apart lands won in the French and Indian War as Native territory and disallowed colonial settlers from moving into that area.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This man is considered to have the greatest influence on American Enlightenment thinkers with his ideas about government being for the people, replacing tyrannical governments, and natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
George Washington was very good at this style of fighting due to his knowledge of American landscapes that came from his years as a surveyor.
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
He was a Major in the British Army who failed to take Fort Duquesne in one of the first battles of the war.
Who is George Washington?
Pontiac's War took place in this region of the U.S. named after bodies of water.
What is the Great Lakes Region?
This was the primary reason that Parliament saw a need to institute new taxes in the colonies.
What is debt from the French and Indian War?
This idea, pioneered by Thomas Hobbs, stated that one needed to trade some of their liberties in order to have their natural rights protected by a government.
What is the Social Contract?
George Washington penned this battle cry in an attempt to get his soldiers to continue fighting with him.
What is "Victory or Death"?
A Plan of Union was developed and presented by Benjamin Franklin in this city found in New York.
What is Albany?
A group of Pontiac's followers in Northern Michigan were playing this game when they suddenly stopped and ambushed the British Soldiers that surrounded them.
What is Lacrosse?
The action of sneaking products through ports that the colonists used in order to avoid paying a tax.
What is smuggling?
Montesquieu pioneered this idea that was eventually used prominently in the U.S. Constitution.
What is Separation of Powers?
He was Washington's right hand man, his protector, and one of the most famous African Americans of his time.
Who is Billy Lee?
This American city was once a fort named for a prominent Englishman whose policies helped to ultimately win the war.
What is Pittsburgh?
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This American city, now the largest in Michigan, was once one of the forts that Pontiac focused his attacks upon.
This act of Parliament required colonists to house, feed, and supply British soldiers within their own homes and without compensation.
What is the Quartering Act?
He said, "Man is free the instant he wants to be."
Who is Voltaire?
It was the name given to Benjamin Franklin's social club that brainstormed many improvements to their hometown of Philadelphia.
What is the Junto?
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This was the name given to the event in which British forces systematically removed French-speaking Acadians from what is now Nova Scotia.
Pontiac made peace and retired to the area around this river in Ohio after the war ended.
What is the Maumee River?
It was a group of men, led by Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who banded together to protest the Stamp Act, but would eventually be the group who carried out the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Sons of Liberty?