American History Chapter 3 Review – Flashcards

selling more goods abroad than were imported

Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 as an attempt to form a union of the colonies. Later used to help form the Articles of Confederation.

designed to bring gold and silver into the British treasury.

set itno play to develop the imperial merchant and fleet to channel the flow of a colonial raw materials

sugar, tobacco, cotton, ginger and dyes

by expanding their beliefs and developments across the globe, they also grew wealthy from this.

George Whitefield

Princeton(College of NJ), Brown(college of Rhode Island), and Rutgers(Queens College in New Brunswick)

John Locke

7 Years War and War of the Conquest

The British Government had borrowed heavily from British and Dutch bankers to finance the war, and as a consequence the national debt almost doubled from £75 million in 1754 to £133 million in 1763. In order to address this onerous liability, British officials turned to larger import duties on enumerated goods like sugar and tobacco, along with a series of high excise (sales) taxes on goods such as salt, beer, and spirits

Major General Braddock

FRANCE=The terms of the Treaty of Paris were harsh to losing France. All French territory on the mainland of North America was lost. GREAT BRITAIN=The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley. SPAIN=The port of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain for their efforts as a British ally.

William Pitt