8.15-8.22 Vocabulary

Salutary Neglect A 17th and 18th century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws that were meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.

Ben Franklin One of our Founding Fathers. Leading author, printer, and politician. Wrote Albany Plan trying to unite colonists against Britain. Join or Die Political cartoon.

John Peter Zenger Trial A printer that worked for the NY Weekly Journal Arrested and convicted for criticizing the governor Case set president for freedom of press today

Poor Richard’s Almanac Poor Richard's Almanac was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the American colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year

Massacre at Ft. Loudon Fort Loudoun was a British colonial-era fort located in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States. Built in 1756 and 1757 to help garner Cherokee support for the British at the outset of the Seven Years' War, the fort was one of the first significant British outposts west of the Appalachian Mountains

Long Hunter An explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier and wilderness west across the Appalachian Mts

Wilderness Road Principle route used by settlers for more than fifty years to reach Kentucky from the east.

Daniel Boone Pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman Most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky Major contributor to the development of the Wilderness Road

William Bean First PERMANENT white settler in Tennessee Settled around current Bean Station

Thomas Sharpe Spencer Considered the first white settler in middle Tennessee Bigfoot

Dr Thomas Walker Distinguished physician and explorer from Virginia Helped establish border between North Carolina and Tennessee

Battle of Alamance A conflict in North Carolina over the issues of taxation and local control

Regulators Back country farmers that fought in a skirmish in North Carolina

Watauga Purchase The contract or treaty formalizing the land purchase between the Watauga Association and the Cherokee chiefs.

Watauga Compact First constitution west of the Appalachian Mountains It allowed for some self government and created a court for law breakers

James Robertson American explorer, soldier and Indian agent One of the founding fathers of the state of Tennessee

Little Carpenter One of a party of Cherokee leaders who ceded lands to Virginia Father of Dragging Canoe

Dragging Canoe Cherokee war chief who led a band of Cherokee’s against colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South

Join or Die Cartoon ( Meaning ) Cartoon supporting Ben Franklin’s Albany Plan for the colonies to join together or not survive separately