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| 34651357 | Patronage | A system in which benefits, benefits, including jobs, money, or protection are granted in exchange for political support. (p. 123) | |
| 34651358 | Mercantilism | The economic theory that all parts of an economy should be coordinated for the good of the whole state; hence, that colonial economics should be subordinated for the benefit of an empire. (p. 123) | |
| 34651359 | Depreciate | To decrease in value, as in the decline of the purchasing power of money. (p. 124) | |
| 34651360 | Veto | To constitutional right of a ruler to or executive to block legislation passed by another unit of government. (p.124) | |
| 34651361 | Monopoly | The complete control of a product o share of economic activity by a single producer or business. (p. 125) | |
| 34651362 | Admiralty Courts | In British law, special administrative courts designed to handle maritime cases without a jury.(p. 126) | |
| 34651363 | Virtual Representation | The political theory that a class of persons is represented in a lawmaking body without a direct vote. (p. 127) | |
| 34651364 | Nonimportation Agreement | Pledges to boycott, or decline to purchase, certain goods from abroad. (p. 127) | |
| 34651365 | Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry. (p. 130) | |
| 34651366 | Duty (Duties) | A customs tax on the export or import of goods. (p. 131) | |
| 34651367 | Propaganda (propagandist) | A systematic program or particular materials designed to promote certian ideas; sometimes but not always the term is used negatively, implying the use of manipulative or deceptive means. (p. 131) | |
| 34651368 | Boycott | An organized refusal to deal with some person, organization, or product.(p. 134) | |
| 34651369 | Inflation | An increase in the supply of currency relative to the good availabel, leading to a decline in the purchasing power of money.(p. 137) | |
| 34651370 | Desert | To leave official government or military service without permission. (p. 137) | |
| 34651371 | Mercantilism | The basic economic and political theory by which seventeenth- and eighteenth¬century European powers governed their overseas colonies | |
| 34651372 | Navigation Acts | The set of Parliamentary laws, first passed in 1650, that restricted colonial trade and directed it to the benefit of Britain | |
| 34651373 | Enumerated | The term for products, such as tobacco, that could be shipped only to England and not to foreign markets | |
| 34651374 | Admiralty Court | Hated British courts in which juries were not allowed and defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocent | |
| 34651375 | Virtual Representation | British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members | |
| 34651376 | Boycott | The effective form of organized colonial resistance against the Stamp Act, which made homespun clothing fashionable | |
| 34651377 | Tea | The product taxed under the Townshend Acts that generated the greatest colonial resistance | |
| 34651378 | Committees of Correspondence | Underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel Adams, that sustained colonial resistance | |
| 34651379 | Catholic | Religion that was granted toleration in the trans-Allegheny West by the Quebec Act, arousing deep colonial hostility Whigs - British political party opposed to Lord North's Tories and generally more sympathetic to the colonial cause | |
| 34651380 | Hessian | German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American revolutionaries | |
| 34651381 | Continental | Paper currency authorized by Congress to finance the Revolution depreciated to near worthlessness | |
| 34651382 | The Association | Effective organization created by the First Continental Congress to provide a total, unified boycott of all British goods | |
| 34651383 | Minutemen | Rapidly mobilized colonial militiamen whose refusal to disperse sparked the first battle of the Revolution | |
| 34651384 | Red Coats | Popular term for British regular troops, scorned as "lobster backs" and "bloody backs" by Bostonians and other colonials | |
| 34651385 | John Hancock | Wealthy president of the Continental Congress and "King of the Smugglers" | |
| 34651386 | George Grenville | British minister who raised a storm of protest by passing the Stamp Act | |
| 34651387 | Stamp Act | Legislation passed in 1765 but repealed the next year, after colonial resistance made it impossible to enforce | |
| 34651388 | Sons and Daughters of Liberty | Male and female organizations that enforced the nonimportation agreements, sometimes by coercive means | |
| 34651389 | "Champagne Charley" Townshend | Minister whose clever attempt to impose import taxes nearly succeeded, but eventually brewed trouble for Britain | |
| 34651390 | Crispus Attucks | Alleged leader of radical protesters killed in Boston Massacre George III - Stubborn ruler, lustful for power, who promoted harsh ministers like Lord North Samuel Adams - Zealous defender of the common people's rights and organizer of underground propaganda committees | |
| 34651391 | Boston Tea Party | Event organized by disguised "Indians" to sabotage British support of a British East India Company monopoly | |
| 34651392 | Intolerable Acts | Harsh measures of retaliation for a tea party, including the Boston Port Act closing that city's harbor | |
| 34651393 | Thomas Hutchinson | British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston tea Party First Continental Congress - Body led by John Adams that issued a Declaration of Rights and organized The Association to boycott all British | |
| 34651394 | Marquis de Lafayette | Nineteen-year-old major general in the Revolutionary army | |
| 34651395 | Baron von Steuben | Organizational genius who turned raw colonial recruits into tough, professional soldiers | |
| 34651396 | Quartering Act | Legislation that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops: disobeyed in New York and elsewhere |
