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Ch. 5 Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Brit. Law that lowered the duty on French molasses and raised penalties for smuggling. New England merchants opposed both the tax and the provision that they would be tried in vice- admiralty court. | Sugar Act of 1764 |
| British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies. Widespread resistance to this act prevented it from taking affect, and was repealed in 1766. | Stamp Act of 1765 |
| A British law passed by the Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage, the Brit. military commander in America, that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops | Quartering Act of 1765 |
| A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that meet in NY in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties". The congress challenged Parliament by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives who could tax them | Stamp Act Congress |
| Colonists- primarily middling merchants and artisans- who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s. The group originated in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies. | Sons of Liberty |
| The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects. | English common law |
| The rights to life, liberty, and property. According to John Locke, governments derived from social impacts that people made to preserve this. | natural rights |
| Law asserting Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its Brit. Colonies "in all cases whatsoever" | Declaratory Act of 1766 |
| Brit. law that est. new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters' colors imported into colonies. Led to boycotts and heighted tension between Britain and the American colonies. | Townshend Acts of 1767 |
| The effort to protest parliamentary legislation by boycotting Brit. goods. This occurred in 1766, in response to the Stamp Act; in 1768, after the Townshend duties; and in 1774, after coercive Acts. | nonimportation movement |
| A communication network established among colonial assemblies between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political development. | committees of correspondence |
| Brit. act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it. | Tea Act of May 1773 |
| Four Brit. acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea. Known in America as the Intolerable acts, they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies. | Coercive Acts |
| Sept. 1774 gathering of delegated in Philly to discuss the crisis caused by the Coercive Acts. The congress issued a declaration of right and agreed to a boycott of trade with Britain. | Continental Congress |
| An association establish in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods. | Continental Association |
| A 1774 war led by Virginia's governor, the Earl of Dunmore, against the Ohio Shawnees, who claimed KY as a hunting ground. The Shawnees were defeated and Virginians claimed KY as their own. | Dunmore's War |
| Colonial militiamen ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s. These volunteers formed formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord on April 1775. | Minutemen |
| Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through war's duration. it established an army, created its own money, and declared independence. | Second Continental Congress |
| A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Brit. Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Brit | Declaration of Independence |
| The idea that the British parliament members virtually represented British colonists by speaking for all instead of just the district they were from. | virtual representation |
| The doctrine stating that the sovereign people of a territory should themselves determine the status of slavery within that territory. | popular sovereignty |
| large scale political leader who was greatly involved in the politics behind the war. | Samuel Adams |
| A pamphlet which argued that the colonists should free themselves from British rule and establish an independent government based on Enlightenment ideals - one that would protect man's natural rights. | Thomas Paine and Common Sense |
| a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Colonists who wanted independence from Britain. | Patriots |
| American colonists who remained loyal to the parliament and to the king. Loyalists opposed rebellions against the parliament's various acts and taxes. They also very much hated Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". | Loyalist |
| a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, it prohibited American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. | Proclamation Line of 1763 |
| THE EXTENSION OF POLITICS BY MEANS OF ARMED CONFLICT. REVOLUTION IS ITS GOAL. ARE POLITICAL PARTISANS: ARMED CIVILIANS WHOSE MAIN WEAPONS ARE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO THE COMMUNITIES IN AND FOR WHICH THEY FIGHT. | guerilla warfare |
| A legislature with only one legislative chamber, as opposed to a bicameral (two-chamber) legislature, such as the U.S. Congress. | unicameral legislature |
| Created on May 29, 1787, the Plan (AKA the Virginia Plan) was made by delegates of Virginia, the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. | bicameral legislative |
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