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Chapter 5 review
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Social Studies
8th Grade
11/19/2013

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What were the 2 conflicts in the backcountry?
Definition
  1. Land
  2. Trade
Term
Why is the French and Indian War title misleading?
Definition
  • Between France and Britain  
  • Makes you believe the war was between the French and the Native Americans
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Who was shot in a battle with the French and was buried under the road?
Definition
General Edward Braddock
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Who defied orders and started the French and Indian war at the age of 22?
Definition
George Washington
Term

Who changed the tide of the war focusing on the French and Indian War and sending his best generals and supplies from England?

 

Definition
William Pitt
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What did Samuel Adams start?
Definition
The Committiees of Correspondence
Term
Why did the colonies decide not to pass the Albany Plan?
Definition

They were afraid to give up power with their own colonial government

-Ben Franklin

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What happened to the tax collectors?
Definition
They were tarred and feathered, buried alive, and poked with hot irons. 
Term
What was Pitt's straegy to defeat the French? Did it work?
Definition
To end the war quickly by sending their best generals, supplies, and money. they also cut off the french's trade route. -it did work-
Term
What was the britishs plan to take over Quebec?
Definition
They were going to climb a steep cliff, take over the guards, and sneak attack.
Term
Who was the general of the English?
Definition
Wolfe
Term
Who was the French's general?
Definition
MontcolmMontcalm
Term
What was the nickname of the French and Indian war?
Definition
7 years war
Term
Where did Washington go after he retired from the army?
Definition
Mt. Vernon, Virginia
Term
The                .  .        was a new tax on molasses
Definition
The sugar act
Term
What was molasses used for?
Definition
To make rum
Term
What act taxed led, paint, tea, glass, and paper?
Definition
The Townshend Act
Term
Where could you get led, paint, tea, glass, and paper?
Definition

England 

monopoly-

Term
What is a boycott?
Definition
To refuse to buys product/ refusal to buy certain goods and services
Term
Define repeal
Definition
(to) cancel
Term
What ware the four parts of they Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
Definition
  • Parliament shut down part of boston until destroyed Thea was payed for
  • People could not hold town meetings
  • Parliament allowed customs officials  charged of crime to be tried in England
  • A new quartering act was passed
Term
What is 1 positive outcome of the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
Definition
The colonies came together and supported Boston
Term
TheTheatre Treaty of Paris ended what war?
Definition
The French and Indian war
Term
The fall of NewFrance happened when the british cut off .              
Definition
Trade supplies
Term
What was the capital of New France?
Definition
Quebec
Term
What act ordered the colonists to house and feed the British soldiers?
Definition
The quartering act
Term
What plan did Ben Franklin develop?
Definition
The Albany Plan
Term
what did the Quartering Act leed to?
Definition

-people hated it

Led to the Boston Massacre


 

Term
How did the indians decide which side to be on during the French and Indian war?
Definition
Whichever side was going to give them the best deal on trade goods
Term
Who were the patriots?
Definition
the people who wanted to be an independent nation from England
Term
What was patrick Henry known for?
Definition
He said the great quote, "give me liberty or give me death"
Term
What was paul revere?
Definition
He was a local silversmith
Term
What is a Loyalist?
Definition
A person who is loyal to England and does not want the country to be independent 
Term
Who was a teacher before becoming a lawyer, who could be stubborn and difficult, and had a wife named Abigail?
Definition
John Adams
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What was Samuel Adams?
Definition
He was a rebel rouser and wore a red suit
Term
What is triangular trade?
Definition
Trading system that developed during the late 1600's that involved carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between west Africa, the West Indies, and Europe.
Term
How did they capture the Africans?
Definition
  1. One afriacan tribe warring another tribe would conquer and sell the other tribe to the American/European slave traders. 
  2. Africans would make a deal with slave traders to take them to tribes, befriend them, then take them hostage. 
Term
What were the conditions on the boat during the middle Passage?
Definition

Hot, smelly, stuffy, cramped, dirty, horrid, unsanitary.

there was feecess, urine, blood, diseases, and rats

Term
What happened to the slaves once they arrived to America?
Definition
They were bathed and put on auction blocks to sell
Term
What was the reason for slave trade?
Definition
To have workers for plantation owners. There was massive amounts of money being made
Term
What are the 3 present day forms of slavery?
Definition
  • Child soldiering
  • Bonded labor
  • Sexual exploitation 
Term
What is chlid soldiering?
Definition
Kids were kidnapped to become soldiers in rebel
Term
What is bonded labor?
Definition
Kids worked for no pay/ to pay off their parents debt
Term
What is sexual exploitation?
Definition
Kids forced into sexual acts
Term
What is racism?
Definition
To feel that your race is superior to someone else's race
Term
To form an opinion of someone or something without prior facts or knowledge is called .                 
Definition
Prejudiced
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