notes Flashcards by Vivianne Woodring

years of the Great Awakening

1730s-1740s

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years of the French and Indian War

1754-1763

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the French and Indian War was fought between ______ and ______

the French and Indians vs. the British and colonists

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said that descendants of church members could become full members even if they weren’t believers

Halfway Covenant

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began the Methodist church

John and Charles Wesley

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name for the revival in England

English Revival; Methodist Revival

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revival in America

Great Awakening

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_____ established “Log College” for ministry training

William Tennent

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known for “The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry”

Gilbert Tennent (William Tennent’s son)

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preached the most famous sermon in American history, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Jonathan Edwards

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most famous preacher of the Great Awakening

George Whitefield (over 18,000 messages)

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4 results of the Great Awakening

conversion of sinners and revival of believers
missionary spirit was kindled
new colleges founded
desire for religious and political freedom increased

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best-known missionary to the Native Americans

David Brainerd

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first black female writer in America

Phyllis Wheatley

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another name for the French and Indian War

Seven Years’ War

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Virginia’s governor during the French and Indian War who sent George Washington to the Ohio territory to force the French to leave

Governor Dinwiddie

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French fort strategically built along the Ohio River

Fort Dusquesne

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Ben Franklin’s plan to unite the colonies against the French (unsuccessful)

Albany Plan

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British advantages and French advantages

British
1. larger population gave more manpower
2. agriculture, trade, and industry kept troops supplied and fed
3. control for the high seas

French
1. stronger central government
2. the city of Quebec
3. alliances with Native American tribes

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first commander of British and American troops in the French and Indian War

General Braddock

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new Prime Minister of England

William Pitt the Elder

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largest French stronghold

Quebec

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British general who won the Battle of Quebec for the British but was killed

James Wolfe

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______ ended the French and Indian War

1763

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year of the Stamp Act Congress

1765

year of the Boston Tea Party

1773

year of the First Continental Congress

1774

date of the shot heard 'round the world

April 19, 1775

year of the Second Continental Congress

1775

"hands-off" system that England had used

laissez faire

measure of the nation's wealth is gold and silver

mercantile theory

acts that regulated and monopolized trade

Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663

six-man group used to control and create laws or regulations dealing with colonial trade

Board of Trade

4 effects of the French and Indian War

1. experience in self-defense 2. less dependent on England for protection 3. England struggled to defend their empire 4. financial problems for England

Native American war led by a chief against British frontier colonists

Pontiac's Conspiracy

search warrants

Writs of Assistance

court case Patrick Henry defended the House of Burgess in

Parson's Cause

king of England

George III

prime minister of England in 1763 who designed a program to control the colonies

George Grenville

New York's statement that the colonists united behind

"no taxation without representation"

political organization led by Samuel Adams that protested the new taxes

Sons of Liberty

3 responses of the Stamp Act Congress

1. defend their rights against unfair charters 2. restore their royal charters 3. restore their land grants

one of Britain’s greatest statesmen and political thinkers; defendant of the colonies

Edmund Burke

said that the colonies are subordinate to Great Britain and Parliament had the power to pass laws in the colonies

Declaratory Act

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Charles Townshend

taxes on imported paper, paint, lead, and tea

Townshend Acts

controlled colonial taskes

board of customs

wrote a pamphlet entitled “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies”

John Dickinson

occurred when tensions grew between England and the US and the colonists provoked the others so 5 American citizens died

Boston Massacre

new Prime Minister in 1770 who repealed all the Townshend Acts except the one on tea

Lord North

British ship burned by the colonists in 1772

Gaspee Incident

formed by Sam Adams to help inform the colonies of issue with England

Committees of Correspondence

bankrupt tea company from Great Britain

British East India Company

citizen disguised as Native Americans boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor

Boston Tea Party

result of the Boston Tea Party

"Intolerable Acts"

cancelled all western land claims by extending Quebec’s borders

Quebec Act

said, "Give me liberty or give me death"

Patrick Henry

colonial “soldiers” who were trained to fight at a “minute’s notice”

minutemen

British general in charge of the soldiers in Boston

Thomas Gage

where was the shot heard round the world?

Lexington (and Concord)

led a militia group called the Green Mountain Boys

Ethan Allen

first victory for the patriots

Fort Ticonderoga

chosen to be president of the Congress

John Hancock

true or false: the Second Continental provided a government and army for the colonies

true (WFBA)

British Prime Minister who sent James Wolfe to fight for England during the French and Indian War

William Pitt the Elder

battle for the largest French stronghold that the colonists/British won

Battle of Quebec

Intolerable Act that closed the port of Boston

Boston Port Bill

Intolerable Act that said legal offenses would be tried in Great Britain

Administration of Justice Act

Intolerable Act that made limited self-government in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Government Act

Intolerable Act that said soldiers could live in any structure they chose

Quartering Act

_____ cancelled all western land claims by extending Quebec's borders

Quebec Act

three riders who warned the minutemen that the British were coming

Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott

the Green Mountain Boys captured ______

Fort Ticonderoga

who won the first battle at Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)

British

year the Declaration of Independence was adopted

July 4, 1776

year of the Battle of Saratoga

1777

year of the Battle of Yorktown

1781

year of the Treaty of Paris

1783

letter from the colonists to George III to repair their relationship

Olive Branch Petition

German soldiers

Hessians

French fort on Ohio River Valley that George Washington conquered

Fort Dusquesne

Parliament issued the ______ which removed parliamentary protection from the colonies

Prohibitory Act

proposed on June 7, 1776 that America should be free from England

Richard Henry Lee

led the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

supported the social contract theory

John Locke

wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England

William Blackstone

supported independence from England

Patriots/whigs

supported the king and his authority

Loyalists/tories

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