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AP US Chap 4
Stack #48112
| Vocab | Description |
|---|---|
| French and Indian War | 4th war in series, began in colonies, 7 years' war, over territories |
| George Washington | young col. le small militia, small victory, surrendered July 3, 1754 |
| Edward Braddock | 1755, VA, defeated, Ft. Duquesne |
| Albany Plan | intercolonial gov't, recruitig troops and collecting taxes |
| Peace of Paris | 1763, treaty, British gained French territory |
| salutary neglect | British avoiding enforcing navigation acts |
| George III | tried to solve financial problems, charged colonists |
| Whigs | dominant political party in Parliament |
| Parliament | British legislature |
| Proclamation of 1763 | 1763, colonists couldnt settle wet of Appalacian Mountains to prevent future hostilities |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | 1763, natives attacked frontier, angry about western movement, destroyed settlements |
| Sugar Act | 1764, revenue act, enforced nav. acts, duties on sugar and other luxuries |
| Quartering Act | 1765, providing food and quarters for British soldiers |
| Stamp Act | 1765, revenue stamp required, placed on mail, etc. |
| Patrick Henry | a lawyer, stood up to house of Burgesses, demanded rights from British government |
| Stamp Act Congress | rep's from all colonies met to discuss act, resolved, no taxation without rep. |
| Sons & Daughters of Liberty | secret society for intimidating tax agents, tarred and feathered them |
| Declaratory Act | 1766, tated the Parliament had rigth to tax/ make laws for the colonists in any case whatsoever |
| Townshend Acts | 1767, duties placed on tea, glass, and paper |
| Writs of Assistance | searching for smuggled goods in private homes, general license to search anywhere |
| John Dickinson | PA, argued against new duties, wrote "Letters..." |
| James Otis & Samuel Adams | wrote Mass. circular letter |
| Circular Letter | 1768, urged petitions to get Townshend Acts repealed |
| Letters from a PA Farmer | agued against taxation without representation |
| Lord Frederick North | new Prime minister, urged repeal of Towshend's |
| Boston Massacre | 1770, colonists harrassed guards, hot, killed 5 men |
| Crispus Attucks | African American killed in Boston Massacre |
| Committees of Correspondence | initiated by Sam Adams, xchanged letters about threatening British activities, Boston |
| Tea Act | 1773, made english tea cheap, insisting on right to collect taxes |
| Boston Tea Party | 1773, dumped 342 chests of tea into harbor |
| Gaspee Incidents | colonists diguised as Natives and set fire to the Gaspee ship, had been catching smugglers |
| Intolerable Acts | laws in retalitation for tea party |
| Coercive Acts | 1774, punitive acts, consisted of 4 others |
| Port Act | closed Boston Port until tea was paid for |
| Mass. Gov't Act | redced power of Mass. legislature |
| Admin. of Justice Act | royal officials accused could be tried in England |
| Quartering Act expansion | british troops quartered in homes in all colonies |
| Quebec Act | 1774, organized Canadian lands |
| Enlightenment | 18th century, movement in lit. & philosophy |
| Deism | belief that god established natural laws and diving intervention was minimal in human lives |
| rationalism | human reason will solve problems in life and society |
| John Locke | major influence in American thinking and enlightenment, philosopher and political theorist |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French philosopher, influenced Americans in the 1760's and 70's |
| George Grenville | British Treasury Head |
| Molasses Act | made rum too expensive, repealed, replaced by Sugar Act |
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