(Class 3) Eighteenth Century America Flashcards
What is the oldest college in America?
Harvard
Cambridge Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is the second oldest college in America?
The College of William and Mary
What was the last colony of the original thirteen?
Georgia
Who created Georgia and why?
James Oglethorpe
Colony would serve as a haven for English debtors and the “worthy poor”
Buffer state that defended the southern from Spanish Florida
What was America’s first planned city?
Savannah
Who were the Pennsylvania Dutch?
Germans
Deutsch- means german
mispronunciation
What did Benjamin Franklin publish?
Poor Richard’s Almanack
espouses long term rewards for tireless labor
Stono Rebellion
Stono, South Carolina
Group of 20 Slaves attacked a country store, killed and plundered
Killed more than 20 white men children women
What unified the 3 sections of North America?
Agriculture
Declining importance of religion
British crown
Protestantism
British export consumption
Seven Years War/ French and Indian War
Turning point in British - colonial relations
International war sparked by Ohio River Valley claims by French and Indians
British and Colonists vs Indians and French
What was the Stamp Act of 1765?
Tax on all paper used for official documents
Required fixed stamp
Colonists rejected idea of virtual representation
No taxation without representation
Tea Acts of 1773
Parliament repealed all Townsend Acts except tax on tea
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
Meant to punish Massachusetts for destroying tea
First Continental Congress
Every colony except Georgia
Samuel Adams and John Adams from Massachusetts
George Washington and Patrick Henry from Virginia
Produced Declaration of rights
Lexington and Concord
Planned surprise attack on American ammunition storage
Midnight April 18th British cross Charles River
Paul Revere and William Dawes race ahead to alert the “minutemen” “The British are coming”
At Lexington: British met by 70 armed men; shorts fired and 8 Americans dead 10 wounded
