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Brinkley, Alan. "Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition." American History. 12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2007. 100-25. Print.

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2840660005Including New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, there were eight......royal colonies.0
2840665333A colony in which the king has power to appoint the governors and other colonial officials is known as a......royal colony.1
2840667738The first of the modern prime ministers was......Robert Walpole.2
2840673253Robert Walpole refrained from strict enforcement of the......Navigation Acts.3
2840677638There was no colonial office in......London.4
2840679769The Board of Trade and Plantations was established in......1696.5
2840813874The mere advisory body that had little role in any actual decisions was the......Board of Trade and Plantations.6
2840814772The central administrative agency for the government as a whole was the......Privy Council.7
2840817521Benjamin Franklin's colony was......Pennsylvania.8
2840818428The representative for Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts was......Benjamin Franklin.9
2840869851The colonial post service helped increase......communication.10
2840873300The plan, proposed by Benjamin Franklin, in which America would have "one general government" for all the colonies (except Georgia and Nova Scotia) but colonies could keep their constitutions but would give the general government the power of governing Indian relations was known as the......Albany Plan.11
2840891249The general government under the Albany Plan would have a person appointed and paid by the king called a......president general.12
2840892346The general government under the Albany Plan would have a legislature elected by the colonial assemblies know as the......grand council.13
2840897107The British won the......Seven Years War.14
2840897658The Seven Years War changed the balance of......power.15
2840902495England's victory of the Seven Years War helped settled its control over settled regions in......North America.16
2840910087Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette were 1670s French......explorers.17
2840913337Large estates were called......seigneuries.18
2840915228The center of the French empire in America was......Quebec.19
2840985528White immigrants of French descent were known as......Creoles.20
2840992205New Orleans was founded in......1718.21
2841000923In the fifteenth century the Iroquois Confederacy formed a......defensive alliance.22
2841022850The Ohio River Valley became potential......battleground.23
2841028774A chief magistrate was known as a......stadholder.24
2841062810The stadholder of the Netherlands and person who opposed French expansionism was......William III.25
2841075434William III's successor was......Queen Anne.26
2841089134Queen Anne ascended to the throne in......1702.27
2841090351Queen Anne's War ended in 1713 with the signing of the......Treaty of Utrecht.28
2841097094In 1749, the French began to build fortresses in the......Ohio Valley.29
2841100497Colonel George Washington led the troops to Ohio River Valley to challenge......French expansion.30
2841103562Colonel George Washington built......Fort Necessity.31
2841105971The French outpost located in present-day Pittsburgh was......Fort Duquesne.32
2841108303The conflict at Fort Necessity marked the start of the......French and Indian War.33
2841117171The appointed commander in chief of the British army in America was......General Edward Braddock.34
2841251619General Edward Braddock brought war efforts in America completely under......British control.35
2841260413In July 1758, two English generals, Jeffrey Amherst and James Wolfe captured the fortress at......Louisburg.36
2841266038On September 13th, 1759,...Quebec fell.37
2841266928The fall of Quebec marked the beginning of the end of the......American phase of the war.38
2841268606In September 1750, the French army surrendered to Amherst in......Montreal.39
2841274200The Peace of Paris was signed in......1763.40
2841297265Prime Minister George Grenville was William Pitt's......brother-in-law.41
2841304664John Stuart was in charge of Indian affairs in the......southern colonies.42
2841305728Sir William Johnson was in charge of Indian affairs in the......northern colonies.43
2841307992Sir William Johnson married a Mohawk woman,......Mary Brant.44
2841317620The colonists were required to assist in provisioning and maintaining the army under the......Mutiny, or Quartering, Act of 1765.45
2841326640Colonial assemblies had to stop issuing paper money under the......Currency Act of 1764.46
2841328031People had to pay taxes on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, deeds, wills, and licenses under the......Stamp Act of 1765.47
2841334023In 1771, a small-scale civil war, known as the regulator movement, broke out in......North Carolina.48
2841387644In May 1765, at the House of Burgesses in Virginia, a speech was given by......Patrick Henry.49
2841390696James Otis organized the......Stamp Act Congress.50
2841397438In July 1765, the new Prime Minister was......Marquis of Rockingham.51
2841403015In 1766, Parliament repealed the......Stamp Act.52
2841404531Parliament had authority over the colonies in all cases under the......Declaratory Act.53
2841417035Taxes on lead, paint, paper, and tea were known as......Townshend Duties.54
2841419981The secretary of state for the colonies was......Lord Hillsborough.55
2841432711In March 1770, Lord North repealed all of the Townshend Duties except for the tax on......tea.56
2841445074In 1772, Samuel Adams created the......Committee of Correspondence.57
2841449048The monarchy, the aristocracy, and the common people were the......three elements of society.58
2841902945With their privileges, East India Company could undersell American merchants and monopolize the colonial tea trade under the......Tea Act of 1773.59
2841924732The event in 1773 when men dressed up as Mohawk Indians dumped the into the harbor was known as the......Boston Tea Party.60
2841959633When the Bostonians refused to pay for the tea wasted during the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the......Coercive, or Intolerable Acts.61
2841960153Boston Habor was closed under the......Coercive, or Intolerable Acts.62
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