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Chapter 5 YAWP vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Locke | philosohper - had great impact on colonial thinking. Wrote that man has 3 natural rights: life, liberty, and property |
| sugar act | aimed to combat widespread smuggling of masses in New Englans. Cut duty in half but increasing enforcement |
| stamp act | required many documents be printed on paper that had been stamped |
| boston massacre | britain sent regiments to boston in 1768 to help enforce new acts + quell resistance. March 5 1770, crowd gatheres outside cfustom house + hurled onsults, snowballs at sentry. Soldiers went into sentrys aid, soldiers fired. 5 b ostonians dead |
| Boston tea party | sons of liberty dumped 342 chests of tea imported by British east India company into Boston harbor. |
| coercive act | series of 4 laws passed by British parliament to punish colony of Massachusetts's bay for Boston tea party |
| Townshend act | custom duties on items such as lead, glass, pain, tea, instead of direct taxes |
| homespun | w/out new imports of British clothes colonists started wearing homespun clothing became marker of ones virtue and patriotism |
| committees of correspondence | formed to keep colonies informed of resistance efforts throughout them |
| continental congress | committees of correspondence agreed to send delegates to coordinate intercolonial response to outbreak of American revolution |
| Lexington and concord | April 9th 1775 British regiments set out to seize local militias arms and powder stores. town militia met then at Lexington green. someone forced @ British, marking beginning of war fighting kept going to the next town, which was concord. (battle) |
| battle of Saratoga | in 1777 continental army defeated British @ Saratoga. major turning point, convinced French to join American war effort |
| Common sense | Thomas Pian argues for independence by denouncing monarchy and challenging logic behind British empire. quickly published and distributed. |
| articles of confederation | allowed each state one vote in continental congress. congress was given no power to levy or collect taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or establish federal judiciary |
| battle of yorktown | George Washington took his troops from NY to Virginia in an effort to trip British southern army under general Charles Cornwall, American forces lay siege to Yorktown - caused Cornwallis to surrender. marked end of war on sep. 3rd, 1783 |
| declaration of independence | called colonies that hadn't established revolutionary governments to do so, wrest control from royal officials. Passed w/ vote of 12-0 on July 2nd. (except for NY) |
| King George III | took crown in 1760 and brought Tories into gov. after 3 decades of Whig rule. |
| currency act | restricted colonies from using paper money |
| George Washington | Virginia delegate, commander in chief of continental army. Layed siege to Boston and forced British to retreat to Halifax. |
| Lord Dunmore | Royal governor of Virginia, issues proclamation declaring martial law and offering freedom to all indentured servants, Black people, and others, as long as they left their enslavers and joined the British. "Ethipian regiment" |
| Loyalist | (Tory). A colonist who remained loyal to British crown and opposed independence movement. |
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