1. What is Mercantilism Who is to benefit in a mercantilist system?
What are raw materials and finished products (goods)?
Imports / Exports
Mercantilism = Colonialism
Top European Colonial Powers:
P______________, S____________, E____________
F_______________, D____________

2. Education in the colonies
New England= Public
Middle= Private
Southern= Tutors
Apprenticeship and Dame Schools

3. Triangular Trade
Impact: Increase in slave trade (slaves treated as chattel = property)
Further destabilization of Africa.
Increased colonial dependency on England which led to hostility.

4. French and Indian War vs.
Who:
French and Algonquin allies
vs.
British and English colonies/ Eventually Iroquois Confederacy
When: (fighting ends in 1760; war is not officially over until the Treaty of Paris is signed in 1763.
Why was it fought: English settlers keep pushing westward and France wants to maintain their colonial gains especially in the Ohio Valley.
Where: The Ohio Valley (North America)

5. Join or Die Albany Plan For Union:
Purposed by Ben Franklin in 1754, modeled after the League of Iroquois, remember Canassastego’s advice?
One general government with representatives from the 13 colonies to serve in the “Grand Council”
The council would make laws, raise taxes, and set up the defense of the colonies.
Not 1 colony agreed to the plan, no one wanted to give up power to a central government.

6. Turning Point 1757, William Pitt becomes Prime Minister of England.
Sends best generals to North America.
Encourages colonists to fight in the war (monetary incentives $$)
General Amherst captures Louisbourg, which convinced the Iroquois to side with the British.
Iroquois convince the Delaware to abandon Fort Duquesne, British gain control of the POINT.

7. Treaty of Paris
1763 – Ended the war! Who got what? Britain – Canada, all French lands east of the Mississippi River & Florida France – West Indies Spain – all French land west of the Mississippi River including New Orleans.

9. French and Indian War Results
Britain gains a lot of territory.
Britain will be able to expand trade (now controlling the St. Lawrence, Ohio, and most of the Mississippi Rivers).
French threat in N. America is ended.
Native American relationships are strained even further.
Britain racked up a tremendous amount of debt.
Colonists are expected to help pay off the debt.
France will begin to spiral towards financial disaster, but not noticeable for another generation.

10. Proclamation of 1763
How did Pontiac’s war lead to the signing of the Proclamation?
What did the Proclamation say?
How did the colonists react to the Proclamation, why?

11. Why did the British begin strictly enforcing taxes?
Sugar Act ‘64
Stamp Act ‘65
Colonial reaction? Why?
Violence/Protests/Stamp Act Congress
Petition/ Boycott
“No Taxation, Without Representation

12. Townshend Act ‘67 Writs of Assistance? What was it?
Quartering Act ’67, what was it?
Colonial Reaction: Non-importation Agreement

13. Boston Massacre
Details?
Response (committee of correspondence)

14. Tea Act of ‘73 Why? Colonial Reaction Boston Tea Party
Britain’s Reaction
Intolerable Acts ‘74 1 2 3 4

15. Colonial Response to the “Intolerable Acts”
First Continental Congress 1. 2. 3. 4.

16. Gen. Gage’s March on Lexington and Concord

17. The Nonimportation agreements The Sugar Act The Stamp Act Congress
Working with your group of 4, place the following events in sequential order. No outside material is allowed (texts, homework, notes, etc.)
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Treaty of Paris
The Stamp Act
The Nonimportation agreements
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act Congress
Pontiac’s War
The Creation of the Committee of Correspondence
The Boston Massacre
The Albany Plan of Union
The Townshend Acts/Writs of Assistance

18. The Correct Order: Explain how each event is connected to the next.
The Albany Plan of Union
Pontiac’s War
The Treaty of Paris
The Proclamation of 1763
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Congress
The Townshend Acts/Writs of Assistance
The Nonimportation agreements
The Boston Massacre
The Creation of the Committee of Correspondence
The Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress