Chapter 6
Terms
People
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John Adams
Samuel Adams
Arthur Lee
Abigail Adams
Patrick Henry
Colonel George
Washington
• General Edward
Braddock
• William Pitt
• Neolin
– The Delaware Prophet
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Pontiac
General Amherst
Paxton Boys
John Murray, Earl of
Dunmore
• John Peter Zenger
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John Locke
Thomas Jefferson
George Grenville
James Otis Jr.
Daniel Dulany
Loyall Nine
Andrew Oliver
Thomas Hutchinson
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Sons of Liberty
King George III
Charles Townshend
John Dickinson
Daughters of Liberty
Francis Bernard
John Hancock
Crispus Attucks
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Fredrick Lord North
Richard Henry Lee
General Thomas Gage
George Washington
Christopher Gadsden
Joseph Galloway
John Jay
James Duane
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Paul Revere
William Dawes
Ethan Allen
General Richard
Montgomery
• Benedict Arnold
• General William Howe
• Virginia Governor
Dunmore
People
• Thomas Paine
Events
• First Continental
Congress
• Seven Years’ War /
French and Indian War
• Albany Conference of
1754
• Braddock’s Defeat
• Treaty of Paris 1763
• Pontiac’s Rebellion
• Germ Warfare
• Royal Proclamation of
1763
• Conestoga massacre
• Treaty of Hard Labor
• Treaty of Fort Stanwix
• Dunmore’s War
• Sugar Act
Events
• Stamp Act
• Virginia Stamp Act
Resolutions
• Stamp Act Congress
• Declaratory Act
• “save your money and
save your country”
• Revenue Acts
• Massachusetts Circular
Letter
• Boston Massacre
• Repeal of Townshend
Acts
• Tea Act
• Hutchinson Letter Affair
• Boston Tea Party
Events
• Intolerable Acts
– Boston Port Bill
– Massachusetts
Government Act
– Administration of Justice
Act
– Quartering Act
– Quebec Act
• First Continental
Congress
– Declaration and Resolves
• The Siege of Boston
• Second Continental
Congress
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Continental Army
General Washington
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of the
Causes and Necessities
for taking up arms
• Battle of Bunker Hill
Events
• Declaration of
Independence
Places
• Nova Scotia
• Louisburgh
• New York/Canadian
border region
• Ohio country
• Forks of the Ohio River
• Halifax
• Fort Duquesne
• vice-admiralty court
Halifax
• Lexington and Concord
• Havana
• New Orleans
• Fort Ticonderoga
• Breed’s Hill
Terms
• Benjamin Franklin’s Plan
of Union
• Cajuns
• “Indian Country”
• Yankees
• Lobster
• Whigs
• republicanism
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nonimportation
inalienable rights
“no taxation without
representation”
• “virtual representation”
• Considerations on the
Propriety of Imposing
Taxes
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“actual representation”
“Liberty tree”
effigy
Letters from a Farmer in
Pennsylvania
• Board of Commissioners
of the Customs
• non-consumption
• “liberty pole”
• Committee of
Correspondence
• Boston Pamphlet
• Committees of
Observation and Safety
• Loyalist
• militia
Terms
• minutemen
• Common Sense
Concepts
• The cultural make-up of
the first Continental
Congress
• Importance of F&E War
on British – colonial
relations
• Colonial assembly
rejection of Albany Plan
of Union
• Native American attempts
at prolonging colonial
rivalries
• Pitt’s promises
– Crown pays for war (get
colonial help)
– Clear boundaries between
Native
Americans/Colonists (get
Native American help)
– Win the war in North
America
• Native American view
towards British
• British attitudes toward
Native Americans
Concepts
• Colonial attitudes toward
Proclamation Line
• Britain’s attempt to reign
in colonies
• Birth of American
Nationalism
• British treatment of
soldiers reflects on
potential treatment of
colonists
• Antagonism between
British regular army and
colonial militia
• The Seven Years’ War and
the growth of an
American identity
• The role of newspapers
and the dissemination of
information
Concepts
• The press becomes
“continental”
• The use of “American”
• The British need to pay
for troops in the
colonies and colonial
reactions
• The end of salutary
neglect
• The supression of the
rights of Englishmen
• The crackdown on
smuggling
• The effect of high taxes
on colonial attitudes
• British ideas of
representation vs
colonial ideas of
representation
Concepts
• Colonial attacks on
British officials –
rejection of authority
• The resistance spreads
form urban to rural
areas
• British issues at home
force the government’s
hand with little thought
of the colonies
• Colonial fears of British
attempts to subvert
their liberty and proof
– suspension of New York
assembly due to colony’s
refusal to pay for
quartering of troops
• The creation of viceadmiralty courts in
major colonial cities
Concepts
• The power of
nonimportation and its
use by colonial
assemblies to project
their authority
• Riots in major cities e.g.
NYC, Boston due to
British and Colonial
conflicts
• British attempts to
subvert colonial
autonomy and
authority
• The evolution from
colony to state
• The King’s desire to
suppress rebellion
Concepts
• Britain's belief that they
were fighting a minority
of individuals instead of
freeholders who
believed they were
defending their homes
and their liberties
• Colonial and Canadian
divergence
• Other European
nations’ attitudes
towards the colonies
– Spain sells weapons
– Caribbean wants to but
can’t help
– France will send supplies
• The Continental
Congress takes actions
towards independence