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American Revolution
Unit 2 American History 1 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mercantilism | an economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade |
| Parliament | the legislative body of England |
| Salutary neglect | an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies’ continued economic loyalty |
| Proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | a trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America |
| Stamp Act | a 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America |
| Townshend Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America |
| Boston Massacre | a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Minutemen | -Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War, pledged to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice |
| Committees of correspondence | one of the groups set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties |
| Patriots | colonists who supported American independence from Britain |
| Loyalists | colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution |
| Olive Branch Petition | a document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain |
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