Colonial Unrest
French Indian War Revolution
French and Indian War
• British / Colonists / Indians
• V.
• French / Indians
• Fighting for control of the continent
John Peter Zenger
• Freedom of the
Press
John Locke
• Life, liberty, property
• Social contract
• English political
philosopher
Francis Parkman
• Historian
• Studied the struggle
between France &
Great Britain for North
America
General Braddock
• British Commander
• Killed at the Battle of
Fallen Timbers
William Pitt (1708-1778)
• British Sec. of State
during French Indian
War
General James Wolfe
• British General
• Led attack on Quebec
• won
Marquis de Montcalm
• French leader
defeated at Quebec
Pontiac
• Ottawa Chief
• Pontiac’s rebellion
• After French and
Indian war
• Defeated
• (Smallpox blankets)
James Otis
• Colonial lawyer
• Argued against writs
of Assistance & the
Stamp Act
Paxton Boys
• After murdering the Conestoga Indians in Lancaster, the Paxton
Boys threatened to march on Philadelphia and kill any Indians they
found there. This political print depicts the general confusion that the
Paxton Boys caused in Philadelphia, where local elites scrambled to
raise a force to defend the city.
Patrick Henry
• Virginia Resolves
• Orator
• VA House of
Burgesses
• “Give me liberty or
give me death!”
Sons of Liberty
John Dickinson
• Declaration of colonial
rights = “Letters from
a Farmer in
Pennsylvania”
• Protested the
Townshend Acts
• Opposed the
Revolution
Sam Adams
• MA politician
• Organized Sons of
Liberty &
Nonimportation
Commission
• Leader of the Boston
Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
• 1st martyr of the
American Revolution
• Died at the Boston
Massacre
John Adams
Carolina Regulators
Carolina Regulators
• Western frontiersmen rebelled against
taxes imposed by the Eastern colonial
gov’t of NC.
• Crushed by Gov. Tryon in 1771
John Paul Jones
• Founded US Navy
• “I have not yet begun
to fight”