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Chapter 6
The American Promise 5th Edition. Professor: Jones-Reed : Keywords
Term | Definition |
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Phillis Wheatley | African American woman poet who was enslaved domestic in Boston during the colonial crisis |
Daughters of Liberty | Patriotic women |
Sons of Liberty | A group of shopkeepers and craftsmen under the leadership of Samuel Adams to protest the Stamp Act |
Townshend Duties | Taxation through trade duties |
William Pitt | Britain’s prime minister |
Proclamation of 1763 | The British policy statement forbidding colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
Thomas Gage | Military commander who became governor of Massachusetts |
Stamp Act Congress | Meeting of delegates from nine colonial assemblies held in New York in October 1763 petition the Stamp Act(Import taxes on all paper used for official documents) |
Nonconsumption Agreement | Boycott of all British made goods |
Lexington & Concord | The towns where the first battles of the American Revolution were fought |
Coercive Act | 4 laws parliament passed to punish Massachusetts for the tea dumping in Boston Harbor to for protesting the Tea Act |
Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770 months of tension between British occupying forces and patriotic colonist |
Treaty of Paris | 1763 agreement that ended the 7 year war (French and Indian war) |
Patrick Henry | A political leader and member of the House of Burgesses of Virginia |