Chapter 18
Terms
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- Treaty of Utrecht
- 1700's French gave Britain Nova Scotia and Newfoundland as well as monopolized slave trade in Spanish America
- Daniel Defoe
- English novelist 1700's wrote Robinson Crusoe and a series of letters about a servant girl: this technique was adopted by later writers of this period.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1762 composer and performer in Europe. He wrote brilliant operas, graceful symphonies and helped define a new style of composing/music.
- Treaty of Paris 1763
- 1763 Treaty in Britain which ended the French and Indian war and Seven Years war
- Loyalists
- colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.
- Navigation Acts
- In 1600's, these acts allowed Britain to heavily tax the 13 colonies and regulated and controlled colonial trade and manufacturing to profit Britain
- Boston Tea Party
- 1773 protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor
- Whigs
- 1600's they backed the policies of the Glorious Revolution and wanted urban business to grow, supported religious tolerance, and wanted Parliament power over the crown
- Robert Walpole
- British Whig leader in 1721-1742 who molded the Cabinet into a unified body and was "the first prime minister"
- Boston Massacre
- March 1770: in Boston, five protesters were killed by British soldiers, sparking anti-British feelings
- Treaty of Paris 1781
- 1781 Between America and Britain with French negotiators and ended the American Revolution since the British recognized American independence and accepted the western frontier as American territory
- George Frederich Handel
- German born composer around 1600/1700 who wrote 'water music" and religious works in England such as the most famous Messiah
- federal republic
- form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national government, and the state governments
- George III
- King of Britain in 1760 who tried to end Whig domination, defied and ended the cabinet system, forced Parliament to follow his will, and chose his own ministers
- George I
- 1700's was a German Protestant prince who spoke no English, therefore completely let Parliament have control and started the Cabinet, which was a handful of Parliament advisers
- Continental Congress
- 1776; legislative body that met to decide America's course of action and voted for Independece from Britain
- Tories
- late 1600's in England; they were mostly landed aristocrats who wanted old traditions and supported broad royal powers with a dominant Angelican church