The American Yawp Ch.4

Question 1

commissioned by King William III of England to supervise commerce, recommend appointments of colonial officials, and review colonial laws to see that none interfered with trade or conflicted with the laws of England

Answer 1

Board of Trade

Question 2

Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.

Answer 2

Navigation Acts

Question 3

(1764) law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies

Answer 3

Sugar Act

Question 4

An uprising of slaves in South Carolina in 1739, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws. The largest slave uprising in the colonies.

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Stono Rebellion

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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

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Quakers

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Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors, subject to the king’s approval

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Proprietary colonies

Question 7

a group that makes laws

Answer 7

Council

Question 8

gathering of colonial law-makers

Answer 8

Assembly

Question 9

A delegate from Pennsylvania and proposed the “Albany Plan of the Union” as a way to strengthen colonies.

Answer 9

Ben Franklin

Question 10

A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s

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Great Awakening

Question 11

Preacher during the First Great Awakening; “Sinners in the hands of angry god”

Answer 11

Jonathan Edwards

Question 12

Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the “New Lights.”

Answer 12

George Whitefield

Question 13

1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

(1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions.

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Seven Years’ War

Question 15

a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended America’s involvement in the Seven Years’ War.

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Treaty of Paris

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1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area.

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Pontiac’s War

Question 17

brought the Seven Years’ War to a close on continent of Europe; allowed Frederick to maintain his hold on Silesia

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Treaty of Hubertusberg

Question 18

A western Delaware Indian. In 1761 had a vision in which God commanded Indians to resume their ancestral ways. Called for the end of Indian dependence on Anglo-Americans because God was punishing Indians for accepting European ways. The result of this was Pontiac’s War.

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Neolin

Question 19

was a French farmer who settled in New York and wrote about the new nation

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Jean de Crevecoeur

Question 20

the royal governor of Virginia. Adopted policies that favored large planters and neglected the needs of recent settlers in the ‘backcountry.’ His shortcomings led to Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 20

Sir William Berkeley

Question 21

a US city founded by William Penn, a Quaker who believed in peace

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Philadelphia