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Unit 2 B People and Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thomas Paine | wrote COMMON SENSE |
| Samuel Adams | propagandist, created engraving of the Boston Massacre |
| Benjamin Franklin | diplomat, wanted central government, supported the Albany Plan of Union |
| George Washington | first general of the Continental Army, served in the French & Indian War |
| Sons of Liberty | formed by Samuel Adams, stopped enforcement of the Stamp Act |
| Second Continental Congress | declared war against Britain |
| COMMON SENSE | argued Americans should govern themselves |
| Committees of Correspondence | communicated what was happening in Boston to the other colonies |
| Radicals | colonists who favored independence |
| Loyalists | colonists who were loyal to Britain |
| Patriots | Americans who supported the Revolutionary War |
| Pacifists | people who opposed war |
| propagandist | someone who describes events in a way that promotes his/her beliefs |
| Albany Plan of Union | proposal to unite the colonies under a central government |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | treaty that ended the American Revolution |
| mercantilism | theory that a country would prosper if it sold more goods than it bought |
| mercenaries | hired soldiers |
| localism | the policy of an area acting independently |
| taxation without representation | Britain had no right to tax the colonies because the colonies did not have a representative in Parliament, so they said Britain had no right to tax them. |
| salutary neglect | If the colonies contributed economically to Britain, Britain would leave them alone. |
| virtual representation | used to justify taxing the colonists |
| minutemen | soldiers who would fight with little notice |