Colonial Unrest
French Indian War - Revolution
French and Indian War
• British / Colonists / Indians • V.• French / Indians
• Fighting for control of the continent
John Peter Zenger
• Freedom of the Press
John Locke
• Life, liberty, property• Social contract• English political
philosopher
Francis Parkman
• Historian• Studied the struggle
between France & Great Britain for North America
General Braddock
• British Commander• Killed at the Battle of
Fallen Timbers
William Pitt (1708-1778)
• British Sec. of State during French Indian War
General James Wolfe
• British General • Led attack on Quebec• won
Marquis de Montcalm
• French leader defeated at Quebec
Pontiac
• Ottawa Chief• Pontiac’s rebellion• After French and
Indian war• Defeated• (Smallpox blankets)
James Otis
• Colonial lawyer• Argued against writs
of Assistance & the Stamp Act
Paxton Boys
• After murdering the Conestoga Indians in Lancaster, the Paxton Boys threatened to march on Philadelphia and kill any Indians they found there. This political print depicts the general confusion that the Paxton Boys caused in Philadelphia, where local elites scrambled to raise a force to defend the city.
Patrick Henry
• Virginia Resolves
• Orator• VA House of
Burgesses • “Give me liberty or
give me death!”
Sons of Liberty
John Dickinson
• Declaration of colonial rights = “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania”
• Protested the Townshend Acts
• Opposed the Revolution
Sam Adams
• MA politician • Organized Sons of
Liberty & Nonimportation Commission
• Leader of the Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
• 1st martyr of the American Revolution
• Died at the Boston Massacre
John Adams
Carolina Regulators
Carolina Regulators
• Western frontiersmen rebelled against taxes imposed by the Eastern colonial gov’t of NC.
• Crushed by Gov. Tryon in 1771
John Paul Jones
• Founded US Navy• “I have not yet begun
to fight”