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Pontiac's War - answer Pontiac leading the Native Americans against the
British since they were taking their lands at Fort Detroit
Proclamation of 1763 - answer drew an imaginary line along the crest of
the Appalacian's, colonists could not go past it to settle there, settlers had
to pay taxes to enforce this policy
Treaty of Paris - answer 1763, marked the end of French Power in US
Albany Plan of Union - answer first try at uniting colonies
French and Indian War - answer pitted English with the Iroquois against
France and Native American tribes (Algonquin, Huron)
Great Awakening - answer religious movement in 1730's and 1740's
Great Migration - answer 1629-1640, many men, women and children came
to live in Boston from England
Fundamental Orders - answer in response to the Puritans, all men who
owned property could vote even those who were not church members,
limited the Governor's power
,Great Wagon Road - answer an old Iroquois trail that settlers followed
along the eastern slopes of the Appalachians
Act of Toleration - answer religious freedom for all christians in 1649
enacted by Lord Baltimore to make sure Catholics kept their right to
worship freely
sugar act - answer placed a tax on molasses to help pay debts from French
and Indian War
Stamp act - answer 1765, new duties on legal documents such as wills,
diplomas and marriage papers, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards and
dice, repealed in 1766 but Parliament could still raise taxes in all cases
Townshend Acts - answer taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint. lead and
tea, later repealed to only include a tax on tea
write of assistance - answer officers were allowed to inspect a ship's cargo
without giving a reason, the response from americans was to not import
any goods that were taxed
Sons/Daughters of Liberty - answer were resistance groups to taxes
without representation
Quartering Act - answer colonists had to provide housing, candles,
bedding and beverages to soldiers stationed in the colonies
Boston Massacre - answer colonists' crowd were calling british "lobster-
backs" and throwing stuff at them, they panicked and fired their guns
killing Crispus Attucks, a son of liberty member`
British East India Companuy - answer bought tea in southern Asia and sold
it to colonists, in financial trouble in 1770's because of tax so Tea Act of
1773 was passed
, Tea Act - answer let the British East India Company bypass the colonists
and sell directly to merchants
mercantilism - answer colonies should support homeland, more goods
should be exported than imported`
navigation acts - answer regulated trade between England and its colonies
to make sure only England benefited from colonial trade
Intolerable acts - answer passed by England after being angry about the
Boston Tea party, port of Boston was shut down, forbade town meetings
more than once a year, major crimes would be tried in Britain, british
commanders could force citizens to house troops in their homes
Continental congress - answer delegates from every state except Georgia
met about the intolerable acts, urged everyone to boycott British goods
and form a militia
manifest destiny - answer widely held belief in the United States that
American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
confederation - answer alliance of independent states
Articles of Confederation - answer limited the powers of Congress and
preserved the powers of the states, every state had same number of votes
Northwest Ordinance - answer set up a government in Northwest Territory
(MI, IN, WI, OH, IL)
Shays Rebellion - answer mad that Massachusetts had raised taxes on
farms to pay debts from wars, many people lost their farms
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