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| 34375164 | Crevecoeur | Wrote Letters from an American Farmer describing a "new race" (Americans) | |
| 34375165 | "Anglo-Saxon" | Of English heritage | |
| 34375166 | The Grand Banks | Submarine plateaus off the coast of Newfoundland that are good for fishing | |
| 34375167 | Corduroy Roads | Roads made of logs in swampy areas | |
| 34375168 | Coopering | Making or repairing barrels | |
| 34375169 | Cordwaining | Shoe-making | |
| 34375170 | Jacob Rivera | Discovered that whale-oil burns | |
| 34375171 | Rack-renting | Merciless rent increases | |
| 34375172 | King William's War | War of the league of Augsburg (1st) 1688-1697 | |
| 34375173 | Queen Anne's War | War of the Spanish Succession (2nd) 1701-1713 | |
| 34375174 | King George's War | War of the Austrian Succession (3rd) 1740-1748 | |
| 34375175 | French and Indian War | Seven Year's War (4th) 1756-1763 | |
| 34375176 | Huron vs. Iroquois | Champlain starts Quebec (1608) and befriends Huron (gaining some Iroquois haters) | |
| 34375177 | Pierre Radisson | French fur-trapper that married into a tribe; worked on "Rendezvous", working relationship w/Indians | |
| 34375178 | Marquet and Juliet | Found Mississippi in 1673, just before La Salle | |
| 34375179 | "Evangeline" | by Longfellow to describe what the British did to Arcadians (Cajuns) | |
| 34375180 | "Battle of the Bloody Marsh" | On St. Simon's Island off the coast of GA, the Spanish attacked Oglethorpe, but the English defended well (1742) | |
| 34657347 | James Fenimore Cooper | US Novelist who wrote books about Indians and frontier life including Last of the Mohicans (Natti Bumpo!) | |
| 34657726 | The Ohio Company | A land speculation company organized for the colonization of the ohio area; led to French-Indian war | |
| 34657727 | The Grand Council | A parliament that meets in Albany, NY to try to achieve colonial unity; Ben Frank's snake; fails. | |
| 34657728 | Jeffrey Amherst | agreed to infect Indians and Montreal with blankets | |
| 34657729 | John Forbes | Captures fort Duquesne (after ____ failed); named Pittsburgh after Pitt | |
| 34657730 | Treaty of Paris | Ended the Seven Year's War; French out of Americas, Spanish FL to Britain, French Louisiana to Spain (1763) | |
| 34658075 | Pontiac's Rebellion | Pontiac leads Ottowa Indians against Amherst over settling in the Great Lakes/Ohio area. | |
| 34658076 | Proclamation of 1763 | British created a boundary between colonists and Indians to prevent conflict | |
| 34658789 | The Enlightenment | A philosophical movement in the 18th century characterized by belief in rational, scientific, logical reason. | |
| 34658790 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | |
| 34658791 | Isaac Newton | Laws of motion; Scientific | |
| 34658792 | Adam Smith | Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade in "Wealth of Nations" | |
| 34658793 | Deism | The religious attitude of the Awakening: God built the universe and let it run. Clockmaker theory. | |
| 34658794 | Bicameral | Upper house: the "revising" chamber with limits. Lower house: the more powerful house. | |
| 34658795 | The Great Awakening | "More hysterical than holiness?"; series of evangelical revivals stressing good deeds and free will. | |
| 34660144 | Jonathan Edwards | Mass; evangelist during Great Awakening who wrote "Sinners in the hands of an angry God". | |
| 34660145 | George Whitefield | A powerful evangelist/orator who fired up the Great Awakening. | |
| 34660146 | Gilbert Tennent | A Presbyterian Scots-Irish leader during the Great Awakening; "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" undermined minister's authority -> created uncertainty | |
| 34660147 | James Davenport | Burned his pants | |
| 34660148 | Itinerants | Traveling preachers such as Tennent and Davenport | |
| 34660149 | "Throat-slitting" | Edward's uncle slit his throat during his message | |
| 34660150 | Results of Awakening | Killed "dead dogs"; more denominations; more missionary work; more colleges; 1st mass movement to "unify" | |
| 34660151 | William Cosby | royal gov. of NY that gets bad press from Zenger and then throws him into jail | |
| 34660152 | "Richard Saunders" | Ben Frank's pen name; Poor Richard's Almanac | |
| 34660153 | "Mrs. Silence Dogod" | Ben Frank's pen name; Mass; sarcastic towards puritans | |
| 34660154 | Gilbert Stuart | A famous colonial painter who painted George Washington on the dollar bill; from RI | |
| 34660155 | Anne Bradstreet | A poet who wrote about women in puritan America; first published female colonial author | |
| 34660956 | American Revenue Act | Briatin's name for the Sugar Act | |
| 34661282 | Customs Duty (Tariff) | A tax on imported products (Sugar Act) | |
| 34661283 | Excise Tax | A sales tax (Stamp Act) | |
| 34661284 | "Caesar had his Brutis..." | "...Charles I had his Cromwell, George III should have his notice": Patrick Henry | |
| 34661285 | Andrew Oliver | Supposed to issue stamps but was scared by the Sons of Liberty | |
| 34661569 | Chancellor of the Exchequer | Secretary of the Treasury (chancellor) | |
| 34661570 | Writs of Assistance | A permanent search warrant held by Customs officials (implemented by Grenville) | |
| 34662038 | Admiralty Courts | Courts with no juries where the defendant was presumed guilty until proven innocent. Americans felt their basic rights as Englishmen were being violated | |
| 34662039 | James Otis | A colonial Lawyer from Boston that argued for privacy | |
| 34662041 | "Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania" | James Dickenson's 12 essays subtly protesting Townshend taxes | |
| 34663382 | Gaspee Affair | A British ship sent to catch smugglers but the Sons of Liberty in RI set fire to it. | |
| 34663383 | Thomas Hutchinson | The Boston Royalist governor that orders ships to stay before the Boston Tea Party of 1773 | |
| 34663384 | Coersive Acts | The British name for the Intolerable Acts that punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party | |
| 34663385 | The Suffolk Resolves | Boston resolves to fight intolerable acts in 1774, leading to the CC | |
| 34663386 | The 1st Cont Congress | Writes Articles of Association, creates Galloway plan to talk to Britain, and agrees to meet again | |
| 34663387 | Thomas Gage | Hutchinson's replacement to inforce the intolerable acts; leader of Lexington and Concord battles | |
| 34663388 | Revere's Ride | Revere rides to ward C&L but gets stopped near Lexington; Dawes and Prescott actually made it | |
| 34663692 | Hesse-Cassal | The region in Germany where George III hired most Hessians | |
| 34663693 | Pulaski and Kosciusko | Polish Nationals invited by Franklin to help the US | |
| 34663694 | "Lafayette, we are here" | Famous saying of soldiers at Lafayette's grave 1917 | |
| 34663695 | Bancroft | "Whig View" of American Revolution that it was destiny | |
| 34663696 | Gipson | 1980s "Imperialist" view of American Revolution that it was a collision of views | |
| 34663697 | Jameson | 1900-1910 "Progressive" view of American Revolution that it was social tensions | |
| 34663698 | Morgan | "Consensus" view of American Revolution that it was self-gov impulse | |
| 34666812 | 2nd Cont Congress | Created after Bunker Hill, still wanted to be part of England | |
| 34666813 | Green Mountain Boys | A militia organization led by Ethan Allen that was instrumental in resisting NY's attempts to control the area | |
| 34666814 | Nathan Hale | Hung as a spy after sneaking behing the British lines in the Battle of Long Island (1776) | |
| 34671252 | Morris (Penn) and Solomon (NY) | Financeers of the American Revolution | |
| 34671253 | Whites of their eyes | Prescott ordered for militia not to shoot until they saw the whites of the enemies eyes at Bunker Hill | |
| 34671254 | Militia | Members of a military group hastily put together | |
| 34671255 | Writers of Declaration of Independence | TJ, BF, JA, RS, RL | |
| 34671256 | Franklin said this when signing Dec of I | "We must all hang together or we will all hang separately" | |
| 34671257 | Colonal Rall | A Hessian at Princeton who wanted to meet Washington | |
| 34671258 | The American Crisis | A set of pamphlets by Thomas Paine to push up spirits of soldiers | |
| 34678561 | "Plain Truth" | A rebuttal to Paine's Common sense by Chalmer, a loyalist from MD | |
| 34678562 | Howe's dogs | After the Battle of Germantown, (PA) Howe's dogs accidentally followed Washington's army, but were returned | |
| 34678563 | Benedict's boot | Benedict Arnold slowed British down before Gates' victory at Saratoga | |
| 34678564 | Conway Cabal | After Saratoga, Conway's Cabal wanted to fire Washington and put Gates in command | |
| 34678565 | Mary Hale | Helped out in Monmouth (NJ) after her husband fell in battle; AKA Molly Pitcher 1778 | |
| 34739293 | Beaumarchais | French playwright that created French company to give supplies to the American Revolution; Barber of Seville and Marriage of Figarro | |
| 34739294 | Camden | Battle in SC where Cornwallis crushed Gates' forces in 1780 (worst losses ever) | |
| 34739295 | Tarleton | British cavalry officer that had a reputation for killing captives rather than taking them prisoner; Tarleton's quarter | |
| 34739296 | Major John Andre | The British spy that gets plans of West Point from Arnold, but is caught and hung | |
| 34739297 | Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis | John Paul Jones wins this 1779 famous naval battle against Britain; "I have not yet began to fight!" | |
| 34739298 | The Sword | Cornwallis didn't show up to surrender to Washington after his defeat at Yorktown | |
| 34739299 | Newburgh Conspiracy | Morris and Hamilton led officers, angry about not being paid, in plans to take over | |
| 34739300 | John Jay | Writer of the Dec of I that negotiated with the British to give Americans independence, also 1st Chief Justice | |
| 34739301 | Vergennes | The French foreign minister who watched the developing Anglo-American crisis with great anticipation and sent a special agent to Philadelphia to encourage the colonists and hint at French aid. |
