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”