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Bacon's rebellion
Time period: 1676-1677 |
Description: Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion that took place by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. He among with other colonists were upset about government taxes, lack of military protection against natives, tobacco prices and wealthy gets tax cuts. |
Impact: Colonies turned away from indentured servant. The rebellion stopped after bacon died. The colonist started expanding into native land. -
Great awakening cause
Time period: 1730-40's | Cause: It arose at a time when man in Europe in American colonies were questioning the role of the individual in religion and society. It began at the same time as the Enlightenment which empathized logic and reason and stressed the power of the individual to understand the universe based on scientific laws. | -
Great awakening
Description: It was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies. It deemphasized the importance of church doctrine and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience. | -
Great awakening impact
Impact:
1. The push for individual religious experience over the established church doctrine decreased the importance and the weight of clergy and also the churches in many instances.
2. The emphasis on individual faith and salvation lead to a rise in the number of denominations.
3. It unified the American colonies. This unification was greater than had ever been achieved previously in the colonies. | Important revivalists (figures): Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield -
Albany Plan of Union
Date: 1754 |
Cause: It was proposed by Benjamin Franklin to improve colonial-imperial relationship and to more effectively address shared colonial interest. |
Description: It was a plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. Representatives from 7 of the colonies adopted it. It aimed to create a more centralized government. -
French and Indian War
Time period: 1754-1763
Description: he French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies.
Impact: It ended with the Treaty of Paris and the British received full access of the Ohio river valley. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris was the official peace treaty between the United States and Britain that ended the American Revolutionary War. This gave the British the full access to Ohio river valley. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains. The Proclamation Line prohibited the colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. This was done to regain some confidence with the Natives. -
Pontaic's rebellion
Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas, united a coalition of American Indian tribes to resist British rule in the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley. It was an uprising at Fort Detroit, but the tribes were not able to overcome the fort's strong fortifications in spite of a five-month siege. -
Boston Massacre
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. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, -
First Continental Congress
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.