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Chapter 5
Causes of the American Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Proclamation of 1763 | prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | lowered tax on molasses in an attempt to stop smuggling |
| Stamp Act | taxed almost all printed material in the colonies |
| Ethan Allen | led the Green Mountain Boys |
| George III | opposed any compromise with the American colonists |
| Abigail Adams | wife of John Adams that wrote letters to her husband suggesting increased rights for women |
| Benjamin Franklin | ran the first post office established by the Second Continental Congress and invented items such as bifocals and the lightning rod |
| Thomas Paine | author of Common Sense |
| George Grenville | prime minister of Great Britain whose first action in the colonies was to take action against smugglers |
| writ of assistance | gave British customs officers the right to search a colonist's house |
| Samuel Adams | started the Sons of Liberty, revived the committee of correspondence, and attended the First Continental Congress |
| Patrick Henry | persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act |
| propaganda | used to influence someone's opinion such as in how colonial leaders used the Boston Massacre killings |
| Loyalists | someone loyal to Britain and did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion |
| Patriots | colonists that wanted to fight the British for American independence |
| Boston Massacre | skirmish between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in the killings of 5 colonists including Crispus Attucks |
| Treaty of Paris | formally recognized American independence |
| Albany Plan of Union | first document written as a part of the colonial independence movement |
| Townshend Acts | taxed all imported goods such as glass, lead, tea, and paper |
| Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) | passed to punish the colonists of Massachusetts by banning town meetings, closing Boston Harbor, and making colonists house soldiers |
| Boston Tea Party | as a result of the Tea Act colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor |
| Paul Revere | rode by horseback to warn the British were coming to prepare for the Battles of Lexington and Concord |
| Declaratory Act | British claimed they could tax and make decisions for the colonies at any time |
| committee of correspondence | organization used to circulate writings of the colonials' grievances |
| First Continental Congress | group of 55 men including John Adams, John Jay and George Washington met in Philadelphia to establish a political body to represent American interests and challenge British control |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | couple of the first battles that broke out between the colonists and the British |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | British win this battle but suffered heavy losses |
| Second Continental Congress | delegates met to begin governing the colonies by creating a Continental Army, setting up a post office, and establishing committees to communicate with the Native Americans |
| George Washington | was unanimously chosen to be the commander of the Continental Army |
| Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson and was a resolution declaring that America was independent from Britain |
| John Locke | English philosopher that Thomas Jefferson based many of his ideas used in the writing of the Declaration of Independence |
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