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Unit 2
The American Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| salutary neglect | Hands off policy of running British colonies in America. |
| French & Indian War | War that gave the British control of North America. |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | France lost Canada and all lands east of the Mississippi, England gained all French land and exclusive rights to the Caribbean slave trade. |
| parliamentary sovereignty | English officials assumed that Parliament must have the ultimate authority over all laws and taxes in the colonies. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Colonist could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Stamp Act | Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills & newspapers. |
| Townshend Act | Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies. |
| Intolerable Acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British. |
| Quartering Act | Force colonist to house British soldiers. |
| Tea Act | Gave East India Company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea. |
| Boston Massacre | Conflict between colonists & British soldiers in which four colonists were killed. |
| Boston Tea Party | Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor. |
| Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty | Formed to protest British restrictions & became leaders |
| Committees of Correspondence | A network of communication set up in Massachusetts & Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights. |
| John Lock | Philosopher who wrote about government. |
| Montesquieu | French writer concerned with government & political liberty. |
| Common Sense | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy. |
| "No taxation without representation" | Colonial slogan. |
| Second Continental Congress | The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence. |
| Declaration of Independence | Document that said the United States was an independent nation. |
| George Washington | Led Virginia troops in first battle of the French & Indian War. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French noble who helped the Americans. |
| Lexington & Concord | General Gage orders troops to march an seize colonial weapons, Minutemen intercept the British and engage in battle. |
| Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778. |
| Saratoga | Battle won by the Americans in 1777. |
| Yorktown | Battle that gave Americans victory in the war. |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Treaty that officially ended the war. |
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