Vocab. CH. 5-8

Question 1

Pennsylvania Dutch

Answer 1

The German Speaking inhabitants of Pennsylvania, the decendants of Protsetant immigrants

Question 2

Soctts-Itrish

Answer 2

American descendants of Presbyterian and other Protestant dissenters from Irish porvinces of ulster

Question 3

Paxton Boys

Answer 3

Frontiersmen of Scott -Itrish origin from along the Susquehanna River

Question 4

Regulator Movement

Answer 4

An organized effort by back country settlers to restore law and order and establish institutions of local government

Question 5

The Session

Answer 5

A meeting of a deliberate or judicial body to conduct its business

Question 6

Triangular Trade

Answer 6

A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another

Question 7

Naval Stores

Answer 7

articles of materials used in stores

Question 8

Molasses Act

Answer 8

An Act of Parliment of Great Britian which imposed a tax on imports of molasses from non-British colonies

Question 9

Establish Church

Answer 9

The Anglican Church and the congregational church were the two in America

Question 10

Anglicans

Answer 10

A member of any of the Anglican Churches

Question 11

Congregationalists

Answer 11

A form of Protestant church government inchurch in which each local religious society is independent and self governing

Question 12

Presbyterians

Answer 12

a member of a Presbyterian Church

Question 13

Johnathan Edwards

Answer 13

A christian preacher, who is widely acknowledged to be an original philosophical theologian

Question 14

George Whitefield

Answer 14

An American preacher who help spread the Great Awakening in Britan and American Colonies

Question 15

Old Lights

Answer 15

Christian circles to distinguish between New Lights by disagreement

Question 16

John Trumbull

Answer 16

Aspiring colonist painter who was forced to move to London to support himself

Question 17

Charles Wilson Peale

Answer 17

Remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution

Question 18

Benjiman West

Answer 18

Anglo-American Painter of historical scenes around and after time of the American War

Question 19

John Singleton Copley

Answer 19

American born painter, active in both colonial America and England

Question 20

Benjiman Franklin

Answer 20

Founding Fathers of the united states and in many was “the first American”

Question 21

John Peter Zenger

Answer 21

He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in America jurisprudence

Question 22

War of Jenkin’s Ear

Answer 22

Fight between Britain and Spain that spread to the Coloines

Question 23

James Oglethrope

Answer 23

Founder of Georgia who beat off the Spainards in Georgia in the war of Jenkin’s Ear

Question 24

Edward Btaddock

Answer 24

British soldier and commander of the 13 colonies during the French and Indian War

Question 25

William Pitt

Answer 25

Second leader of British troops in the French and Indian War who used straegty to defeat the French

Question 26

James Wlofe

Answer 26

British army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered for his victory over the French

Question 27

Battle of Quebec

Answer 27

It was the first major defeat of the Revolutionary War for the Americans

Question 28

Daniel Boone

Answer 28

American frontiersman who's frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes

Question 29

Proclamations of 1763

Answer 29

issued to officially claim British territory in North America after Britian war the Seven Years War

Question 30

George Grenvile

Answer 30

Prime minister who introduced tight policies into the colonies after the French and Indian War

Question 31

Declaratory Act

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British proclamation that said they had compete control over the colonies

Question 32

Townshend Acts

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Taxes put in place on glass, lead, paper, pain; caused British troops to be planted in America

Question 33

Committees of Correspopndence

Answer 33

Places setup in each colony to spread anti British Propaganda

Question 34

British East India Company

Answer 34

Tea provider that was given a monopoly on tea trade to the colonies in order to increase revenue

Question 35

Adminsitration of Justice Act

Answer 35

a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to Adminstration of Justice

Question 36

Lexington and Concord

Answer 36

First battle of the Revolutionary War

Question 37

Morquis de Lafayette

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French general who volunteered himself and his cash to the colonial effore

Question 38

Baron Von Steuben

Answer 38

Stern drillmaster who taught French Colonial soldiers how to fight

Question 39

Ethan Allen

Answer 39

leader of the troops at the Battle Fort Ticonderoga

Question 40

Hessians

Answer 40

German mercenaries hired to fight in the Revolutionary War

Question 41

Richard Montomery

Answer 41

Commander of Patriot forces, killed in the attack on Canada

Question 42

Natural Aristocracy

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Idea of taking away the hereditary right to power but allowing social gheiarchy to stay

Question 43

Patrick Henry

Answer 43

American attorney who became famous for the movement for independence in Virgina

Question 44

William Howe

Answer 44

The general of the Red coat troops from the Vritish

Question 45

Benedict Arnold

Answer 45

Rebel fighter who delayed Burgoyne's forces; later betrayed Patriots and joined British forces

Question 46

Nathaniel Greene

Answer 46

"Frighting Quaker' who removed the British from Georgia and the Carolinas

Question 47

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 47

British general who fought Nathaniel Greene at Yorktown

Question 48

Treaty of Paris

Answer 48

It ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britan and the United States