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Chapter 7 Terms
The Road to Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Republicanism | a just society as one in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private selfish interests for the common good. |
| "radical Whigs" | feared the threat of liberty posed by the arbitrary power of the monarch and his ministers relative to the electedc representatives of Parliament. |
| mercantilism | trading policy where the purpose of the colonies existence was to trade with the mother country |
| Navigation Law 1650 | anything trade the colonists participated in must be done through Britsih; acted like a middle man |
| Bounties | london payed librial bounties to colonial producers to ship part orver the protest of British compeditors |
| George Grenville | first aroused the resentment of the colonist in 1763 by ordering the British navy to begin strictly enforcing the Navation Act. He also secured the Sugar Act |
| Sugar Act 1675 | the first law ever passed by the body for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. Increased duty on foreign sugar |
| Quartering Act 1765 | required certain colonies to provde food and quarters for British troops |
| Stamp Act 1765 | mandated the use of stamped paper or affizing of stamps certifying payments of tax. Colonist greatly angered btw. |
| Admiralty Courts | court where juriers were not allowed. Guilty until proven innocent |
| "No taxation without respresentation" | colonist wanted the right to tax themselves |
| virtual vs actual representation | virtual-Americans were represented because Parliment respresented all British subjects. |
| Stamp Act Congress | brought together in NYC 27 distinguished delegates in nine colonies. The members drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to repeal the reugant legislation |
| Non importation agreements | nonimportantion agreement against british goods |
| Homespun garments | made their own instead of purchasing from the British |
| Sons of Librety; Daughters of Librety | groups of ardent spirits that took the law into their own hands |
| Declaratory Act 1766 | reaffirmed Parliaments right "to bind: the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" |
| King George III | kind of Britain during this period |
| Charles Townshend | a man who could deliever brlliant speeches in Parliament, even while drunk |
| Townshed Acts | a light import duty on glass, white leadm paper, paint, and tea |
| Suspension of New York Legislature 1767 | by the London government as punishment for failure to comply with the Quartering act. |
| Boston Massacre 1770 | a crowd of some 60 townspeople set upon a squad of about ten red coats, acting out of panic the soldiers open fired on the "inocent" citzens. |
| Crispus Attucks | first to fall in the Boston Massacure |
| Boston Tea Party | dumping british tea into the harbour as a protest to the tax on tea |
| Thomas Hutchinson | governer of Massecushets |
| Edmund Burke | support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution |
| Intolerable or Coercive Acts 1774 | collective name for various acts by Parliment in Boston Tea Party. Isolate and punish Mass. |
| Boston Port Act | it closed the tea stained harbor until damages were paid and orders could be ensured |
| Quebec Act | The Quebec Act of 1774 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo. III c. 83) setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. |
| First Continental Congress | The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution |
| The Association | called for a complete boycott of British goods:nonimportation, nonexportation, and nonconsumption |
| Lexington and Concord 1775 | were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. |
| "the shot heard 'round the world" | the revolution was known all around the world |
| Minutemen | the American fighters |
| Virgina Resolves | Virgina's response to the stamp act |
| Circular Letter | was a statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts |
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