Chapter/Packet 6

Question 1

Acadians

Answer 1

are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Question 2

French and Indian War

Answer 2

was a theater of the Seven Years’ War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

Question 3

Seven Years’ War

Answer 3

was a global conflict involving most of the major European powers and many smaller European states, as well as nations in Asia and the Americas.

Question 4

Albany Congress

Answer 4

also known as the Albany Convention of 1754, was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the 17 British colonies in British America: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

Question 5

regulars

Answer 5

regular customer, member of a team, etc

Question 6

Battle of Québec

Answer 6

was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses.

Question 7

Pontiac’s War

Answer 7

was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native Americans dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. Warriors from numerous nations joined in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region.

Question 8

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 8

British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.

Question 9

Republicanism

Answer 9

support for a republican system of government.

Question 10

radical Whigs

Answer 10

theory described two sorts of threats to political freedom: a general moral decay which would invite the intrusion of evil and despotic rulers, and the encroachment of executive authority upon the legislature, the attempt that power always made to subdue the liberty protected by mixed …

Question 11

mercantilism

Answer 11

a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of a nation through restrictive trade practices.

Question 12

Sugar Act

Answer 12

cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.

Question 13

Quartering Act

Answer 13

required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.

Question 14

stamp tax

Answer 14

tax that is levied on single property purchases or documents.

Question 15

admiralty courts

Answer 15

a tribunal with jurisdiction over maritime law, including cases regarding shipping, ocean, and sea laws.

Question 16

Stamp Act Congress

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also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.

Question 17

nonimportation agreements

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was an 18th Century boycott that restricted importation of goods to the city of Boston. This agreement was signed on August 1, 1768 by more than 60 merchants and traders. After two weeks, there were only 16 traders who did not join the effort.

Question 18

Sons of Liberty

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was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

Question 19

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 19

formal female association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts,

Question 20

Declaratory Act

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commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.

Question 21

Townshend Acts

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a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. B

Question 22

Boston Massacre

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was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles.

Question 23

committees of correspondence

Answer 23

emergency provisional governments set up in the 13 American colonies in response to British policies leading up to the Revolutionary War

Question 24

Boston Tea Party

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was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

Question 25

“Intolerable Acts”

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were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.

Question 26

Quebec Act

Answer 26

formally known as the British North America Act 1774, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.

Question 27

First Continental Congress

Answer 27

a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774,

Question 28

The Association

Answer 28

to get the British Acts Repealed,

Question 29

Battle of Lexington and Concord,

Answer 29

were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.

Question 30

Valley Forge

Answer 30

functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army’s main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress fled Philadelphia to escape the British capture of the city.

Question 31

camp followers

Answer 31

a civilian who works in or is attached to a military camp.

Question 32

William pitt

Answer 32

Pitt is best known as the wartime political leader of Britain in the Seven Years’ War, especially for his single-minded devotion to victory over France, a victory which ultimately solidified Britain’s dominance over world affairs.

Question 33

Pontiac

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a leader of the Odawa tribe located in the area of modern-day Ontario, Canada, and the Great Lakes region. He led a rebellion against the British colonists after they expanded their military presence in the Great Lakes area during and after the French and Indian War.

Question 34

John Hancock

Answer 34

As president of the Continental Congress, Hancock is credited as the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. His prominent, stylish signature became famous. (According to legend, Hancock boldly inscribed his name so the English king would not need glasses to read it.)

Question 35

George Grenville

Answer 35

His best-known policy is the Stamp Act, a long-standing tax in Great Britain which Grenville extended to the colonies in America, but which instigated widespread opposition in Britain’s American colonies and was later repealed.

Question 36

Charles (“Champagne
Charley”) Townshend

Answer 36

was control of the British ministry and was nicknamed “Champagne Charley” for his brilliant speeches in Parliament while drunk. He persuaded Parliament in 1767 to pass the Townshend Acts. These new regulations was a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, and tea.

Question 37

Crispus Attucks

Answer 37

American slave who had escaped, is known for being the first person killed in the Boston Massacre which can also count as the first death in the Revolution itself. George III: King of Great Britain and later Ireland who lost the American Revolution, losing his North American territories.

Question 38

George iii

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the king of England from 1760 to 1820, exercised a greater hand in the government of the American colonies than had many of his predecessors. Colonists were torn between loyalty to the king and resistance to acts carried out in his name.

Question 39

Lord Nortg

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Prime Minister of Britain from 1770-1782 who led Britain through most of the Revolutionary War. Samuel Adams: One of the Founding Fathers of America, a leader of the American Revolution who spread resent against the British to the colonies.

Question 40

Samuel Adams

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played a key role in the defense of colonial rights. He had been a leader of the Sons of Liberty and suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence. Adams was crucial in spreading the principle of colonial rights throughout New England and is credited with provoking the Boston Tea Party.

Question 41

Thomas Hutchinson

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was a successful merchant, prominent politician and one of the most important loyalists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony before the American Revolution.

Question 42

Marquis de Lafayette

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Lafayette became an important liaison between America and France. Desperate for French support against the British, Washington and the Continental Congress urged Lafayette to advocate on their behalf with the French government for increased support in their efforts.

Question 43

Baron von Steuben

Answer 43

Leader of the Boston Tea Party. Baron Von Steuben. A Prussian drill master, volunteered to train the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Significance: He manage to transform the Continental Army to be able to stand up to the British.

Question 44

Lord Dunmore

Answer 44

British royal governor who encouraged runaway slaves to join his army.