Chapters 5-8

Question 1

Ben Franklin

Answer 1

Delegate for Pennsylvania. Suggests better ways to get the Iroquois to be their ally. Suggests the Albany Plan of Union

Question 2

Pennsylvania Dutch

Answer 2

A different name for Germans living in Pennsylvania because the English did not like how it was said

Question 3

Scots-Irish

Answer 3

Protestant immigrants from northern Ireland, Scotland, & northern England. Terrible economic conditions caused them to migrate

Question 4

Middle Passage

Answer 4

The crossing of the Atlantic by slave ships traveling from West Africa

Question 5

Enlightenment

Answer 5

Philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines & traditions

Question 6

Great Awakening

Answer 6

Movement emphasized vital religious faith and personal choice

Question 7

Thomas Hutchinson*

Answer 7

Royal American governor of Massachusetts. Governor during the American Revolution & the Seven Years’ War

Question 8

George Greenville*

Answer 8

Prime minister; started the sugar and stamp act

Question 9

George III *

Answer 9

22 year old king of England; timid and insecure & struggled to find footing

Question 10

Sugar (Revenue) Act

Answer 10

British law that decreased the duty on French molasses. Regulated trade & intended to raise revenue

Question 11

Stamp Act

Answer 11

British law imposing a tax on all paper used for official documents for the purpose of raising revenue

Question 12

Virtual Representation

Answer 12

Theory that all British subjects were represented in Parliament whether they elected a rep or not. American colonist rejected this theory & argued only direct reps had the right to tax the colonist

Question 13

Declaratory Act

Answer 13

Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament’s unassailable right to legislate for it’s British colonies

Question 14

Charles Townshed

Answer 14

Chancellor of the exchequer & the chief financial minister

Question 15

Boston Massacre

Answer 15

Incident in Boston where British soldiers fired on an American crowd. Colonist began to see British government as tyrannical & illegitimate

Question 16

Coercive Acts

Answer 16

Four laws meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea

Question 17

Three Major Crops during this time period?

Answer 17

Rice, Tobacco, & Indigo

Question 18

1st Continental Congress

Answer 18

Gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts

Question 19

2nd Continental Congress

Answer 19

Legislative body that governed the U.S through war. Established an army, created money, and declared independence

Question 20

Robert D?

Answer 20

Made claims on North America, used tax payer organization to put money in his pocket. Connected to Ohio Co.

Question 21

Ohio Co

Answer 21

When Virginian investors wanted to make a claim of land by the Ohio Rivers. Btween French and British Territories

Question 22

Ladies Association

Answer 22

Women organization in Philadelphia that collected substantial money donations to reward Continental soldiers for their service

Question 23

Ft. Necessity

Answer 23

Fortification made by the English to protect themselves from the French. Native Americans abandoned them b/c the English were going to loose

Question 24

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 24

Plan to unite the 13 colonies to fight against the French. (Did not work)

Question 25

Iroquois

Answer 25

Powerful Native American tribe located in Ohio Co. Stuck between choosing which side to fight on

Question 26

Edward Braddock

Answer 26

General with little army experience sent from England to help with the war

Question 27

Treaty of Paris

Answer 27

Acknowledge Americas independence. An outline of land that Britain and Spain split between eachother

Question 28

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 28

Multistage battle in New York ending with the decisive defeat and surrender of British General. France Lost.

Question 29

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 29

Battle that sealed American victory in the Revolutionary War

Question 30

Benedict Arnold

Answer 30

Betrayed the United States