APUSH Ch.5 - Ch.6

Question 1

Armed march on Philadelphia by Scotts-Irish frontiersmen in protest against the Quaker establishment’s lenient policies toward Native Americans.

Answer 1

Paxton boys

Question 2

Eventually violent uprising of backcountry settlers in North Carolina against unfair taxation and the control of colonial affairs by the seaboard elite.

Answer 2

Regulator Movement

Question 3

The uprising of approximately two dozen enslaved Africans resulted in the deaths of nine whites and the brutal execution of twenty-one participating blacks.

Answer 3

New York Slave Revolt

Question 4

more than fifty South Carolina blacks along the Stono River. They attempted to reach Spanish Florida but were stopped by the South Carolina militia.

Answer 4

Stono Rebellion

Question 5

Exchange of rum, slaves, and molasses between the North American colonies, Africa, and the West Indies. A small but immensely profitable subset of the Atlantic trade.

Answer 5

Triangular Trade

Question 6

The unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of Navigation Laws. Lasted from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the French and Indian War in 1763.

Answer 6

Salutary Neglect

Question 7

Tax on imported molasses was passed by Parliament in an effort to squelch the North American trade with the French West Indies. It proved largely ineffective due to widespread smuggling.

Answer 7

Molasses Act

Question 8

A religious revival that swept the colonies. Participating ministers, most notably Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, placed an emphasis on direct, emotive spirituality. A Second Great Awakening arose in the nineteenth century.

Answer 8

Great Awakening

Question 9

(1703-1758) New England minister whose fiery sermons helped touch off the First Great Awakening. Edwards emphasized human helplessness and depravity and touted that salvation could be attained through God’s grace alone.

Answer 9

John Edwards

Question 10

(1714-1770) Itinerant English preacher whose rousing sermons throughout the American colonies drew vast audiences and sparked a wave of religious conversion, the First Great Awakening. Whitefield’s emotionalism distinguished him from traditional, “old light,” ministers who embraced a more reasoned, stoic approach to religious practice.

Answer 10

George Whitefield

Question 11

Orthodox clergymen rejected the emotionalism of the Great Awakening in favor of a more rational spirituality.

Answer 11

Old lights

Question 12

Ministers who took part in the revivalist, emotive religious tradition pioneered by George Whitefield during the Great Awakening.

Answer 12

New Lights

Question 13

(1697-1746) New York printer tried for seditious libel against the state’s corrupt royal governor. His acquittal set an important precedent for freedom of the press.

Answer 13

John Peter Zenger

Question 14

New York libel case against John Peter Zenger. Established the principle that truthful statements about public officials could not be prosecuted as libel.

Answer 14

Zenger Trial

Question 15

Fort in Ohio River Valley, the pivotal point where Monogahela and Allegheny rivers join, was important to France

Answer 15

Fort Duquesne 6.2

Question 16

(1732-1799) Revolutionary War general and first president of the United States. A Virginia-born planter, Washington established himself as a military hero during the French and Indian War.

Answer 16

George Washington 6.2

Question 17

The fort in Washington and his men constructed in the Ohio River Valley, the French surrounded it and sieged it.

Answer 17

Fort Necessity 6.2

Question 18

French residents of Nova Scotia, many of whom were uprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south as Louisiana, where their descendants became known as “Cajuns.”

Answer 18

Acadians 6.2

Question 19

(1706-1790) American printer, inventor, statesman, and revolutionary. Franklin first established himself in Philadelphia as a leading newspaper printer, inventor, and author of Poor Richard’s Almanac. Franklin later became a leading revolutionary and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. During the Revolutionary War, Franklin served as commissioner to France, securing that nation’s support for the American cause.

Answer 19

Benjamin Franklin

Question 20

Intercolonial congress summoned by the British government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French.

Answer 20

Albany Plan 6.3

Question 21

In previous wars the Americans had revealed an astonishing lack of unity. Only those colonists closest to the shooting could be counted on to respond generously with volunteers and money. A month before the congress assembled, ingenious Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette the most famous cartoon of the colonial era. Showing the separate colonies as parts of a disjointed snake

Answer 21

“Join or Die” 6.3

Question 22

Bound together five tribes—the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas—in the Mohawk Valley of what is now New York State. The colonist wanted to keep this native group loyal to the British during the French and Indian War.

Answer 22

Iroquois 6.3

Question 23

(1708-1778)British parliamentarian who rose to prominence during the French and Indian War as the brilliant tactician behind Britain’s victory over France.

Answer 23

William Pitt 6.5

Question 24

Historic British victory over French forces on the outskirts of Québec. The surrender of Québec marked the beginning of the end of French rule in North America.

Answer 24

Battle of Quebec 6.5

Question 25

French power was thrown completely off the continent of North America. French were allowed to retain several small but valuable sugar islands in the West Indies.

Answer 25

Treaty of Paris 1763 6.5

Question 26

Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac’s War, prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachians. Contributed to rising resentment of British rule in the American colonies.

Answer 26

Proclamation Line of 1763

Question 27

Economic theory that closely linked a nation’s political and military power to its bullion reserves. Mercantilists generally favored protectionism and colonial acquisition as means to increase exports.

Answer 27

Mercantilism

Question 28

Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping; the acts provided that only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports and that all goods destined for the colonies would first pass through England

Answer 28

Navigation Laws.

Question 29

The British crown also reserved the right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial assemblies if such laws worked mischief with the mercantilist system.

Answer 29

Royal Veto 6.9

Question 30

mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps, certifying payment of tax. Stamps were required on bills of sale for about fifty trade items as well as on certain types of commercial and legal documents, including playing cards, pamphlets, newspapers, diplomas, bills of lading, and marriage licenses.

Answer 30

Stamp Act

Question 31

Nine-year war between the British and the French in North America. It resulted in the expulsion of the French from the North American mainland and helped spark the wider Seven Years’ War in Europe and elsewhere.

Answer 31

French-Indian War

Question 32

1712-1770) British prime minister who fueled tensions between Britain and her North American colonies through his strict enforcement of Navigation Laws and his support for the Sugar and Stamp Acts.

Answer 32

George Grenville 6.11

Question 33

Required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. Many colonists resented the act, which they perceived as an encroachment on their rights.

Answer 33

Quartering Act

Question 34

Assembly of delegates from nine colonies who met in New York City to draft a petition for the repeal of the Stamp Act. Helped ease sectional suspicions and promote intercolonial unity.

Answer 34

Stamp Act Congress 6.12

Question 35

Boycotts against British goods were adopted in response to the Stamp Act and, later, the Townshend and Intolerable Acts. The agreements were the most effective form of protest against British policies in the colonies.

Answer 35

Nonimportation agreements 6.12

Question 36

Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the Stamp Act and enforcing nonimportation agreements.

Answer 36

Sons Of liberty

Question 37

Rowdy protest against the British East India Company’s newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade. Colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor, prompting harsh sanctions from the British Parliament.

Answer 37

Boston Tea party

Question 38

many of the chartered rights of colonial Massachusetts were swept away. Restrictions were likewise placed on the precious town meetings.

Answer 38

Massachusetts Gov. Act

Question 39

gave local authorities the power to lodge British soldiers anywhere, even in private homes

Answer 39

Quartering Act 1774

Question 40

Allowed the French residents of Québec to retain their traditional political and religious institutions, and extended the boundaries of the province southward to the Ohio River.

Answer 40

Quebec Act

Question 41

Convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that convened in Philadelphia to craft a response to the Intolerable Acts. Delegates established The Association, which called for a complete boycott of British goods.

Answer 41

1st Continental Congress

Question 42

First battles of the Revolutionary War, fought outside of Boston. The colonial militia successfully defended their stores of munitions, forcing the British to retreat to Boston.

Answer 42

Lexington and Concord

Question 43

Nonimportation agreement crafted during the First Continental Congress calling for the complete boycott of British goods.

Answer 43

The Association

Question 44

Encampment where George Washington’s poorly equipped army spent a wretched, freezing winter. Hundreds of men died and more than a thousand deserted. The plight of the starving, shivering soldiers reflected the main weakness of the American army—a lack of stable supplies and munitions.

Answer 44

Valley Forge

Question 45

European powers for control of North America

Answer 45

King William’s war

Question 46

British and French fighting over colonial territory (Coureurs de bois)

Answer 46

Queen’s Anne’s War

Question 47

Between Spain and Britain, France allied with Spain

Answer 47

king george’ war

Question 48

an armed conflict between the British Empire and Algonquian, Iroquoian, Muskogean, and Siouan-speaking Native Americans following the Seven Years’ War.

Answer 48

Pontiac’s Rebellion