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what was impressment?

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  • forcibly enlisting sailors into the British navy against their will
  • this led to rebellions and riots
  • claimed they had the “natural right” to revolt
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what was the regulator movement?

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  • farmers in north and south carolina
  • they felt ignored by colonial government; wanted to bring attention to unfair situations
  • led to violence
  • soon diminished by colonial government
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albany plan of union

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  • proposed by Benjamin Franklin
  • proposal to create a centralized government/military for all colonies
  • rejected
  • 1754
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Pontiac’s Rebellion

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  • Pontiac - Ottawa Chief
  • a bunch of Native groups rebelled
  • wanted to cleanse themselves of whites
  • colonists were encroaching their land
  • Ohio surrendered to the Indians
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Proclamation of 1763

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  • British monarch wanted peace in N. America with Natives & colonists
  • didn’t want settlers to settle west
  • created a line that colonists could not pass
  • whites at the frontier felt betrayed
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paxton boys

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  • group of farmers that wanted to rid of all indians
  • began to march into philly, but Ben Franklin stopped them
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