APUSH QUIZ 2

Enlightenment

brings deism, rationalism, social contract

Deism

A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives

Rationalism

belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge

Social Contract

gov needs consent from ppl, challenges divine right monarchs, rejects virtual representation

Monarchy perceived strength over colonies

8 royal colonies, can control them (navigation acts, prohibitions on money+manufacturing)

New France

hold most of interior NAm, forts missions trading posts, lower MS: plantations, population 60k~

French and Indian Wars

King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, French and Indian War, pretty much all over land rights+racism AND fought by colonies

French and Indian war

1754-1763, starts at Fort Duquesne (pitt/ohio river valley), colonel washington deployed to stop construction, loses! war wages on

Fort Necessity

built after fort duquesne conflict to claim some sort of land for brittain, ultra crappy, french take it down

Braddock Expedition (1755)

second attempt to attack fort duquesne, absolute disaster bc Braddock doesn't take washington's advice, algonquin go on rampage of english frontier

The Albany Plan of Union

congress of 7 colonies, planned by ben franklin, want intercolonial gov+recruited troops+tax 4 common defense

7 years war

international side of french+indian war

William Pitt

new english PM, impressment (forced enlistment), seizes colonial troops+quarters on priv. prop.=tides turn and french are overpowered in Fr+IN war (BRUTAL)

Peace of Paris 1763

french cananda, spanish florida, all land east of MI river to Brittain, Louisiana goes to spain

British after Fr+IN war

scorn colonists, install perm defense force, 122 mil lbs spent on war King George III+whigs think colonists should pay!

Colonists after Fr+IN war

colonists surge in self image became "peoples army" (hate Pitt) relationship between colonies deepens

Pontiacs Rebellion (1763)

ohio river valley tribes unite, and british army crushes rebellion

Proclamation of 1763

colonists cant go past appalachian mts, natives love it!

George Grenville

Became the Prime Minister of England in 1763; proposed the Sugar & Stamp Acts to pay 4 Fr+IN War

Sugar Act 1764

tax on imports/exports of sugar (indirect tax), cracks down on smuggling

Currency Act 1764

no more paper money, domestic trade is hurt

Mutiny/Quartering Act 1765

must quarter plus help army whenever they needed it

Stamp Act 1765

direct tax, tax on all paper products, british revenue increases 10x after all acts

Patrick Henry

house of burgesses member, Virginia Resolves (1765) "no taxation without representation!"

Stamp Act Congress

NY, meeting of delegations from colonies, formed to protest Stamp Act

Sons/Daughters of Liberty

intimidate+assault tax agents, tar+feather, run non-importation mvmts

Declaratory Act (1766)

after stamp act is repealed, full authority to pass any law basically

Townshend Acts ( 1767)

duties on tea, glass, paper (indirect), repealed in 1770 over concerns of hurting trade

John Dickinson 1768

"Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania", protested Townshend acts, parliament should regulate trade but not tax

Massachusetts Circular Letter

1768, urged non compliance and boycotts on english goods

Boston Massacre

march 5, 1770, boston customs guards harassed by colonists, guards shoot, crispus attucks (first victim of the revolution)

Trial for the Boston Massacre

John Adams defends them and finds them innocent even though colonists hate them they did no wrong, inflames anti british sentiments

Committees of Correspondence

Samuel Adams starts, system of communication throughout the colonies

HMS Gaspee

hunted smugglers, colonists burn it!

Tea Acts 1773

made tea cheaper from england than dutch illegal tea, takes away competition+colonists jobs (BEIC gets exclusive rights)

Boston Tea Party

dump tea into harbor

Intolerable/Coercive Acts 1774

direct response to boston tea party, port act, massachusetts gov act, admin of justice act, quartering act

Port Act

closed Boston Harbor, prohibiting trade in or out until the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party was paid for

Massachusetts governor Act

no more voting/town assemblies, thomas gage gets to pick ur governor

Administration of Justice Act

extraterritoriality, colonial jury cant charge crown officials

Quartering Act

gets worse, soldiers can go into any home for any reason

Quebec Act 1774

cedes ohio river valley to quebec, colonists fear they might lose assembly

First Continental Congress 1774

house of burg. dissolved, so 12/13 states convene in Philly and call for repeal of all laws since '63 (suffolk resolves), approve prep for defense of boston, boycott brit trade

Minutemen

MA farmers+townspeople, Thomas Gage starts worrying brit army is too small

Battle of Lexington

april 18, 1775, 1000 troops goes to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, and also to collect weapons stored in Concord

Midnight Ride

paul revere and william dawes warn ahead of time the brit's are coming via committees of correspondence

Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 19th, 1775, lose at lexington to conquer concord where minutemen arrive w weapons

Thomas Paine

Common Sense jan. 1776, first to articulate goal of indep. should sever ties w monarch and establish republic, 500k sold in a year (recall like 2 mil population)