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Stufflet APUSH U3P1
Unit 3--Part 1-- APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Albany Plan of Union | plan for colonial union developed by Ben Franklin in 1754 to coordinate colonial defense against the French; not adopted |
| salutary neglect | British policy of exercising little direct control over colonies and allowing Navigation Acts to go unenforced |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | characterized by Indian attacks along colonial border from New York to Virginia in 1763; British troops sent to quell violence |
| Proclamation of 1763 | issued by British; said colonists could not settle west of Appalachian Mts.; meant to prevent hostilities between colonists and Indians |
| Stamp Act | required stamps to be placed on most printed paper in colonies (legal docs, newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards); 1st direct tax on colonies |
| Townshend Acts | tax on tea, paper, glass, lead, painters’ colors; passed in 1767 to raise money to pay for British officials in colonies |
| Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) of 1774 | passed by the British in response to the Boston Tea Party |
| Battle of Saratoga | 1777 battle that resulted in French entering War for Independence on side of Americans |
| Republican motherhood | idea that a woman's place was in the domestic sphere but that she was also responsible for educating children in citizenship |
| Paxton Boys | backcountry Pennsylvania farmers who ignored the Proclamation Line of 1763; dispersed by Ben Franklin |
| Patrick Henry | he said “no taxation without representation” in Virginia House of Burgesses in response to Stamp Act |
| Stamp Act Congress | this group claimed only elected Americans could approve taxes |
| Sons of Liberty | they called for American independence in the wake of the Stamp Act |
| Boston Massacre | resulted from a protest of the Townshend Acts |
| Tea Act | this was passed so the colonists would not buy the smuggled alternative at a cheaper price |
| popular sovereignty | Enlightened idea that government derives its "just powers from the consent of the governed” |
| laissez faire | Enlightened economic idea that the government should mostly stay out of economic affairs |
| Common Sense | convinced many Americans with rather simplistic ideas that independence was necessary |
| Dunmore's Proclamation | British offer of freedom to any enslaved person who left their Patriot owner to fight for the King |
| Battle of Yorktown | battle that resulted in the British surrender in the American Revolution |
| Pennsylvania Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery | forbade importation of slaves into the colony; freed children of enslaved mothers at age 28 |
| Abigail Adams | urged her husband to "remember the ladies" at the Second Continental Congress |
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