下面为大家整理的是关于SAT2美国历史知识点中殖民地时期的生活，包括了思想，政治以及美国独立战争等内容，非常丰富。这个部分也是现在美国所有生活和习惯的基石，对于大家整体的SAT2美国历史知识点备考相当有帮助的。

　　Colonial life

　　Royal African Company: selling slaves through middle passage

　　NW / SC slave revolt: last struggle for slaves before humiliation

　　Congregational Church: church for puritans

　　Half-way Covenant: granting half rights, including baptism, to some

　　Salem Witch Trials

　　Great Awakening: a series of Protestant religious revivals with Calvinism (led by: Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield)

　　Paxton Boys & Regulator Movement: Scot-Irish insurrections to colonial governments

　　Zenger Trial: freedom of press as long as it’s true　

　　Colonial Conflicts before Independence

　　King William’s & Queen Anne’s war: British vs. French

　　War of Jenkins’s Ear (King George’s War): British vs. Spanish

　　French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War): started by border issues; British beat French and took Canada & Ohio Valley; George Washington as lieutenant

　　Fort Duquesne: where Washington first loses

　　Albany Congress: first try to unite colonies for defense and Iroquois support; rejected by both colonies and Parliament; led by Thomas Jefferson but summoned by British gov

　　Proclamation of 1763: banning colonists’ westward expansion for Indian settlement

　　Navigation Laws: lead American merchant ship to England first; later being “salutary neglected”

　　Other British acts: Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts (all three taxes), Quartering Act (feed British troops)

　　Non-importation Agreement: made by Stamp Act Congress to protest

　　Son of Liberty & Committees of correspondence: colonial groups to resist Parliament policies & to inform other colonies and public the British violations

　　Declaratory Act: Parliament to reaffirm its right to bind colonies in all cases

　　Boston Massacre: riot in Boston in Mar 5, 1770 between Bostonians and British soldiers

　　--John Adams as defenders of soldiers in court

　　Boston Tea Party: dumping teas from East India Company that is near bankruptcy and requires colonists to pay tax to rescue it

　　Intolerable Acts: punish Boston: no trades, no town meetings, no home privacy & security; soldiers can use violence; was officially named Coercive Acts

　　First Continental Congress: led by John Adams

　　The Association: calling for complete boycott on British goods but not independence

　　Galloway Plan of Union: for a national assembly led by a royally appointed president to serve as American branch of Parliament; rejected in congress

　　Second Continental Congress:

　　Olive Branch Petition: professing loyalty to crown & begging for peace; rejected by King George III

　　Declaration of Independence: written by Jefferson

　　Model Treaty: declaring only commercial connection with foreign gov

　　Common Sense: written by Thomas Paine, for “governing from the consent of the governed”

　　Armed neutrality: the attitude of European countries to Britain

　　Treaty of Fort Stanwix: allying with Indians

　　Lexington and Concord: first few shots for War; near Boston

　　Bunker Hill: a place where Americans won at first (before Olive Branch Petition)

　　Battle of Long Island (where Washington retreats); Battle of Trenton (attack off-guard Hessians in Christmas); Brandywine (won);

　　Battle of Saratoga: key battle that bring France in to help Americans; also later Poland, Germany, Spain

　　Battle of Yorktown: the end of the war

　　Hessians: European mercenaries

　　Treaty of Paris of 1783: the end; granting Ohio Valley, fishing rights in New England, loyalists’ right protected, still pay debts

　　以上就是关于SAT2美国历史中殖民地相关的生活介绍，对于重点部分都已经进行了标注。大家可以在备考的时候根据自己的实际情况，准备相关的内容进行更加丰富的理解和记忆，这样就能在考试中有更好的应对了。