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Bacon's Rebellion
Cause: The immediate cause of the rebellion was Governor Berkeley's refusal to retaliate for a series of Native American attacks on frontier settlements. Description: Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion that took place 1676-1677 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. Impact: While Bacon's Rebellion did not meet its goals, it did highlight larger issues that the colonies would have to continue to deal with, such as class struggles. -
Great Awakening
Cause: Poor Church Attendance.
Apparent absence of god in daily lives Description: Was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain
and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s. Impact: The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism
as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious
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French and Indian War
Cause: The French and Indian War, began due to a conflict between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley. Description: The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Impact: The British victory in the French and Indian War had a great impact on the British Empire. Firstly, it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World. But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt. -
Albany Plan of Union
Cause: Chaos in the Colonies. Description: The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. Impact: The Albany Plan gave the Grand Council greater relative authority. The plan also allowed the new government to levy taxes for its own support. -
Treaty of Paris
Cause: British victory over the French & Indian war Description: The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. Impact: More land for the British. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Cause: ??? Description: The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War. Impact: It created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Quartering Act
Impact: Required colonists to house British soldiers in their homes if need be
Response: Colonists resented and opposed because they were taxed to pay for provisions and barracks for the British army. -
Stamp Act
Tax on every printed paper including legal documents, playing card, newspapers
Impact: Each bundle of paper was taxed
Colonists were upset about the tax -
Townshend Act
Impact: Taxes on glass paint oil lead paper
Response: Overall made colonists mad/Unhappy due to being passed by the British -
Boston Massacre
Cause: The event occurred on March 5, 1770 when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. Description: The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. Impact: It further incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence. -
Boston Tea Party
Cause: In simplest terms, the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”. Description: The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. Impact: The cause of the Intolerable Acts was King George was furious about the Boston Tea Party and closed the harbor and took away their self-government until all the tea was paid for. -
Coercive Act
Impact: Boston Port act
Massachusetts govt. Act
Administration of justice act
Quartering Act
Reaction: The colony reacted by making a convening of the 1st continental congress -
1st Continential Congress
Cause: the First Continental Congress sought to help repair the frayed relationship between the British government and its American colonies while also asserting the rights of colonists. Description: The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. Impact: The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774.