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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 French & Salutary IndianWar Neglect Meaner Mercantilism Rebel Whigs Growing Rebel Unity
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This Pennsylvania printer, inventor, statesman published his famous 1754 cartoon promoting an Albany Congress
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Benjamin Franklin
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This Virginia planter, surveyor, soldier was forced to surrender to French forces in the wilderness at Fort Necessity in 1755 marking the beginning of the 7 Years War
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George Washington
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This North American Indian Confederacy sided with the British during the French & Indian War
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The League of Iroquois
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The legendary James Fennimore Cooper novel about the French & Indian War in colonial New York was later the subject of several movies about heroism on the colonial frontier
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Last of the Mohicans
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This British law was meant to limit American Colonial shipping from transporting this syrupy raw sugar product from the Caribbean Islands to New England ports
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Molasses Act
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These British laws were meant to restrict a wide range of profitable colonial shipping ventures
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Navigation Acts
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This Massachusetts businessman was known as the “King of the Smugglers” for his many illegal enterprises
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John Hancock
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Because American Colonists were not allowed to have their own banks or print their own money, this Spanish money was often used for trade in the Caribbean by American Colonists along with British Pounds Shillings, and Pence
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Dollars or Pieces of Eight
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Americans were able to acquire needed supplies as long as British authorities did not enforce their rigid “Mother Country” rules for controlling their colonies known as
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Mercantilism
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In 1763 to please Indian Allies from the French & Indian War, the British declared lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and this boundary line were no longer available for colonial settlement
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1763 Proclamation Line
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To raise revenues to pay for British soldiers stationed in North America after the French & Indian War, the British Parliament passed this law to collect tax money levied on legal documents in the colonies
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The Stamp Act
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This 1767 series of taxes on a wide range of British goods including tea angered many American Colonists against the Prime Minister
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The Townsend Acts
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This British law would bring British Red Coat Soldiers into Boston with the right to stay and sleep in the homes of Bostonians
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The Quartering Act
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This series of laws were passed in response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party further angering colonists opposed to the growing mercantilist control
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The Intolerable Acts
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Fearing this conquistador was actually a returning god named Quetzalcoatl, this horse riding, armored, blunderbuss firing stranger was allowed by the Aztecs to enter their capital city.
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Hernando Cortez
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This conquistador arrived at exactly the right time to defeat Athualpa and his Incan Empire, as they were divided in a civil war.
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Francisco Pizarro
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The Conquistador Balboa is believed to be the first European to ever see this traveling East to West.
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Pacific Ocean
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This Native American uprising in 1580 in the old “southwest” was brutally avenged by Spanish authorities.
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The Pueblo Revolt
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The Treaty of Tordesilles in 1494, by Papal decree, divided the new lands across the Atlantic Ocean between the empires of Spain and her great maritime rival…
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Portugal
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Jamestown survived “starving time” with the help of local Native American Chief Powhatan and his teenage daughter…
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Pocahontas
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The Pilgrims overcame their struggles to adapt to New World farming with the help of this Native American friend
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Squanto
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These New England wars resulted in the annihilation and/or enslavement of the Native Americans who once had traded peacefully with the Pilgrims.
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The Pequot Wars
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These two colonies were established on the principle of religious tolerance.
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Maryland and Rhode Island
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This rebellion in 1675 resulted in a great shift from indentured servitude to an increased use of African chattel slavery in Virginia and the Southern Colonies.
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