APUSH american pageant ch. 5-6
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210432244 | pennsylvania dutch | erronious name for colonial Germans. They had fled religious persecution and the ravages of war. | |
210432245 | scots-irish | people from the scotish lowlands who migrated to the america and filled in the backcountry around the appalachians. they are known for being lawless and rogue, and they have no loyalty to the british crown | |
210432246 | Paxton Boys | An uprising of frontiersmen in Pennsylvania who massacred (nonviolent) Conestoga Indians. Governor attempted to try those involved, but they were never tried This showed the bias against frontiersmen in the eastern government, and prompted 600 frontiersmen to march on Philadelphia. | |
210432247 | regulator movement | It was a movement during the 1760's by western North Carolinians, mainly Scots-Irish, that resented the way that the Eastern part of the state dominated political affairs. They believed that the tax money was being unevenly distributed. Many of its members joined the American Revolutionists. | |
210432248 | triangular trade | new england goods would go to the gold coast of africa to be traded for slaves, which would go to to the west indies to be traded for raw materials, which would go back to new england to be made into manufactured goods. significance: made a lot of people really rich | |
210432249 | Molasses act | a law passed by the British government restricting trade between the colonies and the French West Indies. it was not successful because the colonists were able to bribe and smuggle their way around it. This law shows the British tightening control over the colonies | |
210432250 | College of William and Mary | established in 1693 at Williamsburg by the Anglicans, institution of higher learning, originally to train clergy | |
210432251 | congregational church | A church grown out of the Puritan church, was established in all New England colonies but Rhode Island. It was based on the belief that individual churches should govern themselves | |
210432252 | the great awakening | the first spontaneous mass movement in the colonies. originally based on religious revivalism started by John Edwards, George Whitefield, and the Faithful Narrative. Its influences were felt in the colonies and England. It was more of a colonial press war than an actual religious movement. It brought unity to the colonies through the press because they were all reading the same things. | |
210432253 | Poor Richard's Almanack | published by Ben Franklin from 1732-1758. it was a conglomeration of common sayings and facts. 2nd most read to the bible in American colonies. | |
210432254 | John Peter Zenger | charged with seditious libel for printing something about a corrupt New York governor that was true. This leads to freedom of speech and press to expose arbitrary power | |
210432255 | colonial assemblies | consisted of a 2-house legislation: the upper house was appointed by the king or proprietors, and the lower house was elected by the people | |
210432256 | Lord Cornbury | cousin of Queen Anne, governor of New Jersey and New York. he was a drunk, a spendthrift, an embezzler, and an overall awful governor. | |
210432257 | musters | militia drills. socializing mixed with organizing an army | |
210432258 | Edict of Nantes | Henry IV granted religious toleration to Huguenots in 150 French cities to end the War of Three Henrys | |
210432259 | Samuel de Champlain | "Father of New France" - founded Quebec | |
210432260 | Huron Indians | befriended the French in Quebec, got them into a battle against the iroquois. Significance: the French couldn't get into the Americas past the Ohio valley because the Iroquois were too powerful and they were not allies. | |
210432261 | concurs de bois | French beaver trappers | |
210432262 | Antoine Cadillac | founded Detroit | |
210432263 | Robert LaSalle | French explorer that founded Louisiana and named it after Louis XIV | |
210432264 | Peace of Utrecht (1713) | British gained Acadia (Nova Scotia), Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland from France at the end of the War of Spanish Succession began a period of salutary neglect from England colonists gained some trading rights with the Spanish | |
210432265 | War of Jenkins' Ear | 1739: between British and Spanish in the Caribbean and Georgia. the colonial part of the War of Austrian Succession. France allied with Spain. 1748: peace! made New England angry, French held on to Louisbourg | |
210432266 | William Pitt | "Great Commoner," good orator. Attacked the West Indies, then Quebec-Montreal. used many young leaders led troops to the first British victory of the French And Indian War at Louisbourg | |
210432267 | James Wolfe | English general that defeated the french at Quebec | |
210432268 | Marquis de Montcalm | French general who was defeated at Quebec, | |
210432269 | Proclamation of 1763 | A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east. | |
211155797 | albany congress | 1754 Intercolonial congress. Urged the crown to take direct control of Indian relations beyond the boundaries of the colonies. Drafted a plan of confederation for the continental colonies. was not ratified by any colony and parliament did not accept it. 7 of 13 colonies were present |