Chapter 4 Flashcards
Who is the trapper that explored the upper Missouri River?
Louis Joliet
Who is the Jesuit Priest who explored the upper Missouri River?
Jacques Marquette
What the French called the territory they claimed along the Missouri River.
Louisiana
Resourceful French commander during King James’ War
Comte de Frontenac
Colonial commander who fought in the skirmish of the French and Indian War.
George Washington
Surprise attacks by small hidden groups.
Guerrilla Warfare
What important fort did the French build at the Forks of Ohio River at the French and Indian War
Fort Duquesne
Author of proposal to unite the colonies against France
Benjamin Franklin
What colonial congress attempted unsuccessfully to unite the colonies during the French and Indian Wars?
Albany Congress
British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian War.
Edward Braddock
Talented British General who died capturing Quebec
James Wolfe
Prime minister of Great Britain who won the Seven’s Years War
William Pitt
British king who antagonized the colonists
King George III
Indian chief who confederacy devastated the frontier
Pontiac
Requirement that salaries, taxes, and expenditures by scrutinized by elected officials
Power of the purse
British prime minster who attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies
George Greenville
Ban on colonization beyond he Appalachian mountains
Proclamation line
Any tax on goods that are produced and consumed entirely within a country
Internal tax
Organization that opposed the tyranny of British rule
Sons of liberty
British attempt to tax legal and commercial documents in the colonists
Stamp act
Requirements that the Amish help supply the British army
Quartering act
Orator from Virginia who opposed British tyranny
Patrick Henry
Leader of the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
A repressive series of direct taxes on various colonial goods, such as glass
Townshend acts
Author of “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” to the inhabitants of the British colonies.
John Dickenson
What infamous incident did British records kill five unarmed patriots in 1770
Boston Massacre
What are the factors of America’s nationalism?
- Isolation by the ocean
- Private ownership of property was an attractive incentive for settlers from Europe.
- the diversity of the colonists.
- The Great Awakening
- the strength of colonial self-government
- power of the purse
- Geographic remoteness and official neglect
- Magnified sense of confidence and optimism after the French and Indian War