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The Seven Years War did what two things for England?
- confirmed commericial supremacy in N. America
- cemented political control or settled regions in N. America
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Who were hurt by the Grenville administration legislation?
small farmers from the north and south
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Colonial protests against the Townsend Acts resulted in
parliment passing a second Stamp Act
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Tor F? the Tea Act of 1773 reduced price of tea to American colonists
True
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T or F? The First continental congress of 1774 denied parliment the right to regulate trade and tax in the colonies
False
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T or F? British official Thomas Hutchinson had his home ransacked by anti-stamp Act demonstrators
True
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T or F? The coercive (or intolerable) acts were a result of the Boston Massacre
False
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T or F? life expectancy in New England was higher than in England and the rest of British N. America?
True
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In 1638, Anne Hutchinson was deported from MA colony because...
argued that elect should be only ones entitled to political/ religous authority
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Unlike Puritans, quakers rejected
predestination and original sin
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T or F? The Mayflower Compac set forth principles of the Puritan religion.
False
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glorious revolution
- Catholic king of England was overthorwn (James II)
- William and Mary become joint soveriegns
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Mass Bay Puritans
- serious and pious
- created several seetlements (Boston=capital)
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the intolerable acts
Created because of Boston Tea Party
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The Quebec Act
- extended boundaries of Quebec
- gave political rights to Catholics
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Flintlock Musket
lighter musket: gave Indians edge over colonies
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John Looke
wrote fundamental constitution for Carolina
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Boston Massacre
- British gaurding taxation record building. Bostonians threw ice- shot fired
- Result of Townson Acts
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The Olive Branch Petition
John Dickson wrote letter to king saying everyone wanted peace
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currency act
british took control of regulating colonial money
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port bill
closed ports of boston until boston paid back tea party damages
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government act
gave control of colonial go'vt to king
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new quartering act
king could pick houses for royal soldiers to stay
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administration of justice act
- moved trials to different places (esp. England)
- hard for colonists to get to trials
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Lexington and Concord
- 700 british regulators ordered to capture and destroy military supplies
- colonists moved supplies and started militia
- shot heard round the world
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2nd continental congress
managed war efffort "defacto" not official but accepted
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siege of boston, result of, lasted, resulted in
lexington and concord, 11 months, all British troops out of Boston
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1st continental congress, met in, who didnt attend, what was agreed on
- Phili
- GA
- boycott british goods, halt exports to British
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Puritan communities, characteristic, social unit, centered around
- close knit
- social unit: town
- common area pasture etc
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Thomas Paine
- made contribution to Enlightenment
- wrote comprehensive pamphlet which stirred up colonists
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Stono Rebellion
- uprising in SC
- 100 blacks tried to escape
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Navigation Acts
- closed colonioes to all trade except carried by English ships
- goods from Europe to colonies taxed
- duties on coastal trade
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King Phillips War
- conflict between pequot indians and settlers in CT valley
- indians almost wiped out
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The Townshend Program
imposed taxes on goods imported to colonies
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John Rolfe
1st to grow tobacco
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Charter of Liberties
- est a rep. assembly in RI
- allowed Delaware to seperate from RI (same governor)
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Cotton Mather
Puritan who encouraged inoculation of Small Pox
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Thomas Hutchinson
- pro British aristocrat
- house pillaged and destroyed by American rebels
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Tobacco Economy
- boom and bust
- lots of land and labor required
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The Gaspee Incident
- British repealed Townson Acts
- colonists burned gaspee: british ship looking for untaxed goods
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Anthony Cooper
persistant proprietor of Carolina
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Plantation Economy
- precarious
- in south
- landowners lived in rough cabins
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Fundamental Orders of CT
- created independent colony in Hartford
- gov't similar to Mass Bay, but more men could vote (no women could)
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James Oglethorpe
founder of GA
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starving time
winter of 1609-1610 in VA (Jamestown)
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Act Concerning Religion
MD act granting religous freedom to all christians to attract more settlers
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George Calvert
- first Lord Baltimore
- died while negotiating for land in America
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Fundamental Constitution for Carolina
- divided colony into counties and est social hierarchy
- developed differently than Looke's plans
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