U.S History 2
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- Marquett and Jolliet
- Explored the Great Lakes
- William Pitt
- One of the new leaders to run government. Began winning battle under his control
- Gen. James Wolfe
- Led British in a surprise attack on PLains of Abraham at Quebec
- Jacque Cartier
- Explored St. Lawrence River
- Samuel de Champlain
- Founded first permanent french settlement in America at Quebec
- Salutary Neglect
- When English appeared to tighten its colonial grip. When it was actually losing hold couse of lack of enforcement for the new measures as they settled into an overall colonial policy
- Sieur de La Salle
- Explored lower Mississippi Valley
- Georgia
- 1732
- Treaty of Paris
- Ended French and Indian War
- The Greak Awakening
- Period of religious revival in the mid-1700, preachers would go from village to village stirring people to rededicate themselves to God.
- Navigation Acts
- Established by Parliament in 1651, they were designed to restrict or tighten control over colonial trade.
- Dominion of New England
- Southern Maine to New Jersey was united to make Dominion of New England.
- Board of Trade
- Moving smuggling trials to admirality courts
- Ben. Franklin
- Figure of the Englightenment ara, notion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reason.
- Maryland
- Haven for Catholics. Act of Toleration
- Sir Edmund Andras
- Ruled the Dominion, North hated him
- Sugar Act
- Grenvill concluded that colonists were smuggling goods into the country without paying, duties prompted Parlaiment to enact this law. Halved duty on foreign made molasses and placed duties on certain imports that were never taxed before. Most important, it strengthened the enforcement of law allowing prosicutors to try smuggling cases in vice admirality court rather than in colonial court
- Parlaiment
- Englands legislative body.
- George Grenville
- Geoge III chose financial expert to serve as prime minister. Angered colonists
- Mercantillism
- Theorgy and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumilating...
- Balance of Trade
- Selling more than bought
- Carolina 1663
- Charles II created proprietary colony of South Carolina for 8 aristocrates
- Stono Rebellion
- Out side of Charleston in 1739 between southern planters and slaves
- Proclimation of 1763
- To avoid conflicts with Natives, the british government banned all settlement west of App. Mountains.
- Jonathan Edwards
- A clergy who tried to revive the original Puritan vision
- Pontiac
- Ottawa leader. Recognized that French loss was loss for Native Americans.
- Triangular Trade
- Trade in which goods were exchanged mostly between Africa, England, Europe, and the West indies.
- Carolina 1729
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Divided into two colonies
North- Tobacco
South- Corn, Rice, Indigo - Enlightenment
- Movement that emphasized the use of reason and scientific method to obtain knowledge
- Ohio Valley
- Largest prize in French and Indian War
- Indentured Slaves
- usually young, white men who traded a life of prison or poverty for hard labor
- Middle Passage
- When africans were brough from Africa to be sold as slaves
- Planters
- majority were small farmers