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=== Major Wars === | === Major Wars === | ||
* French-Indian War, 1754- | * French-Indian War, 1754-1763 | ||
* American Revolutionary War, 1775-1781 | * American Revolutionary War, 1775-1781 | ||
* War of 1812, 1812-1815 | * War of 1812, 1812-1815 | ||
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* Civil War, 1861-1865 | * Civil War, 1861-1865 | ||
* Spanish-American War, 1898 | * Spanish-American War, 1898 | ||
* | * Phillipine Insurgency, 1899-1902 | ||
* World War I (U.S.), 1917-1918 | * World War I (U.S.), 1917-1918 | ||
* White Russian War, 1917 | * White Russian War, 1917 | ||
* | * World War II (U.S.) 1941-1945 | ||
* Korean War, 1950-1953 | * Korean War, 1950-1953 | ||
* | * Vietnam War, 1959-1975 | ||
* Vietnam, U.S. ground war: 1965-1972 | * Vietnam, U.S. ground war: 1965-1972 | ||
* Gulf War, 1990-1991 | * Gulf War, 1990-1991 | ||
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* following smaller wars and the worldwide French-Indian War (Seven Years War), Britain sequentially took France's Canadian possessions as well as its landholdings between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. | * following smaller wars and the worldwide French-Indian War (Seven Years War), Britain sequentially took France's Canadian possessions as well as its landholdings between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. | ||
* Levels of British control of the colonies rose and fell according to domestic British politics and its international priorities. | * Levels of British control of the colonies rose and fell according to domestic British politics and its international priorities. | ||
* The American Revolution was largely the result of the | * The American Revolution was largely the result of the exercise of direct control of colonial affairs that followed the French-Indian War. | ||
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==== Colony Characteristics ==== | ==== Colony Characteristics ==== | ||
* Maryland | * Maryland | ||
* | * Massachusetts Bay Colony | ||
* Pennsylvania | * Pennsylvania | ||
* Virginia | * Virginia | ||
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==== British colonial period terms & events ==== | ==== British colonial period terms & events ==== | ||
<ul></li>{{#tip-text:Appalachian Mountains|running | <ul></li>{{#tip-text:Appalachian Mountains|running north-south along the eastern coast of the 13 colonies, the Appalachians isolated the east coast and formed a natural barrier to western expansion; the Proclamation of 1863 unsuccessfully barred colonial settlement west of the Appalachians}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bacon’s Rebellion|1676 Virginia rebellion that | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bacon’s Rebellion|1676 Virginia rebellion that briefly occupied the colonial at Jamestown over a dispute over protection of settlers who had moved into Indian lands; Bacon, a wealthy landowner, had let a militia to protect frontier settlers from Indian raids, which the governor opposed. Legislators passed "Bacon's Laws" to authorize colonial militia to protect settlers (who were moving into lands east of the Appalachians; Bacon's rebellion marks one of many disputes across US history between urban political and commercial elites and settlers and rural inhabitants)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jonathan Edwards|a New England preacher of pietism}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:the Great Awakening|following a 1739 tour of the colonies by English Methodist preacher George Whitefield, a religious "awakening" or "revival" based upon Protestant principles of individual relationships with God and "pietism," or strict adherence to Biblical strictures of behavior; Whitefield's visit followed Jonathan Edwards' movement and was enhanced by advances in the printing industry, which spread his sermons, biography, etc., including by Benjamin Franklin; the Great Awakening was possible due to greater exchange between the colonies and development of the printing industry. The Great Awakening influenced people at the personal level and included women who preached publicly; established churches objected to the "New Lights"}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:headright system|land grants in exchange for bringing labor to the colonies, usually in the form of indentured servitude; was started in 1618 and most employed in Virginia}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:House of Burgesses|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:indentured servitude|contractual servitude, or slavery for a set period of time; generally, indentured servants paid debts, such as passage across the Atlantic, or other debts, with their service; families might "sell" children into indentured servitude; demand for early colonial farm labor in the middle colonies was filled through indentured servitude}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:indentured servitude|contractual servitude, or slavery for a set period of time; generally, indentured servants paid debts, such as passage across the Atlantic, or other debts, with their service; families might "sell" children into indentured servitude; demand for early colonial farm labor in the middle colonies was filled through indentured servitude}}</ul></li> | ||