French and Indian War Vocab

Salutary Neglect

A British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically

Stamp Act

1765 law passed by parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials

John Adams

A prominent Massachusetts lawyer. He spoke out against British tax laws and served as a delegate from Massachusetts to the First continental congress

Patrick Henry

A young Virginia representative who used Enlightenment ideas to draft a radical document known as the Virginia Resolves. He argued that only the colonial assemblies had the right to tax the colonies.

Sons of Liberty

organization of colonists formed in opposition to the Stamp Act and other British laws and taxes

Nonimportation Agreements

colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by parliament.

Boston Massacre

Incident on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers killed five colonists in Boston

Committees of Correspondence

Network of local groups that informed colonists of British measures and the opposition to them in the years before the revolutionary war.

Boston Tea Party

protest against British taxes in which Bostonian protesters dumped tea into the harbor on December 16, 1773

Intolerable Acts

American name for the Coercive Acts, which parliament passed in 1744 to control the colonies

First Continental Congress

group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774

French and Indian War

War fought from 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its American Indian allies, gaining control of Eastern North America.

George Washington

Led troops to attack and defeat a small French force. Washington surrendered when the French counter attacked.

Iroquois

Also known as the Itaudenosaunce, they were a group of American Indian peoples who lived in upstate NEw York and neighboring lands. They included the Cayuga, Cherokee, Huron, Mohwak, Ondeida, Onondaga, Seheen, and Tuscacora, who started a language family and certain ways of life

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Uprising in 1763 by American Indians in the Great lakes region

Edward Braddock

served as a British commander in North America during the French and Indian war. In 1754, he came to Virginia to lead the British forces on the continent. During an attempted assault on Fort Duqesne, Braddock’s forces were defeated and the general was killed.

Benjamin Franklin

Drafted the plan of union, which called on the colonists to unite under British rule and to cooperate with one another in war.

Albany Plan of Union

Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 Proposal to form one government for a group of Britain’s colonies in North America

Proclaimation of 1763

declaration by the British king ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains.