AP US chapter 7 studyguide
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| a system in which benefits, including jobs, money, or protection are granted in exchange for political support | ||
| the economic and political theory that colonial economics should be subordinated for the benefit of the British empire | ||
| to decrease in value, as in the decline of the purchasing power of money, which swiftly depreciated | ||
| the constitutional right of a ruler or executive to block legislation passed by another unit of government | ||
| the complete control of a product or sphere of economic activity by a single producer or business | ||
| in British law, special administrative courts designed to hangle maritime cases without a jury | ||
| the political theory that a class of persons is represented in a lawmaking body without direct vote | ||
| pledges to boycott, or decline to purchase, certain goods from abroad; effective form of resistance agaisnt the Stamp Act | ||
| a person of mixed African and European ancestry | ||
| a customs tax on the export or import of goods | ||
| a systematic program or particular materials designed to promote certain ideas; sometimes but not always the term is used negatively, implying the use of manipulative or deceptive means | ||
| an organized refusal to deal with some person, organization, or product | ||
| an increase in the supply of currency relative to the goods available, leading to a decline in the purchasing power of money | ||
| to leave official government or military service without permission | ||
| the colonial economy should be carefully controlled to serve the mother country's needs | ||
| by inhibiting the development of banking and paper currency in the colonies | ||
| it aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary American men and women | ||
| colonists were outraged because they saw it as a trick to undermine their principled resistance to the tax | ||
| closing the Port of Boston until damages were paid and order restored | ||
| the revenues from the taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America | ||
| it extended Catholic jurisdiction and a non-jury judicial system into the western Ohio country | ||
| forming The Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods | ||
| the British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord | ||
| Lord North | ||
| possible revolts in IReland and war with France | ||
| the Whig Party | ||
| the ability to enlist foreign soldiers, Loyalists, and Native Americans in their military forces | ||
| fighting defensively on a large, agriculturally self-sufficient continent | ||
| fought in both the American patriot and British loyalist military forces | ||
| the set of parliamentary laws, first passed in 1650, that restricted colonial trade and directed it to benefit of Britain | ||
| the term of products, such as tobacco, that could be shipped only to England and not to foreign markets | ||
| hated British courts in which juries were not allowed and defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocent | ||
| British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members | ||
| the product taxed under the Townshend Acts that generated the greatest colonial resistance | ||
| underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel Adams, that sustained colonial resistance | ||
| religion that was granted toleration in the trans-Allegheny West by the Quebec Act, arousing deep colonial hostility | ||
| British political party opposed to Lord North's Tories and generally more sympathetic to the colonial cause | ||
| German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American revolutionaries | ||
| paper currency authorized by Congress to finance the Revolution depreciated to near worthlessness | ||
| effective organization created by the First Continental Congress to provide a total, unified boycott of all British goods | ||
| rapidly mobilized colonial militiamen whose refusal to disperse sparked the first battle of the Revolution | ||
| popular term for British regular troops | ||
| wealthy president of the Continental Congress and "King of the Smugglers" | ||
| British minister who raised a storm of protest by passing the Stamp Act | ||
| legislation passed in 1765 but repealed the next year, that taxed all printed goods: ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards | ||
| male and female organizations that enforced the nonimportation agreements, sometimes by coercive means | ||
| minister whose clever attempt to impose import taxes nearly succeeded, but eventually brewed trouble for Britain | ||
| alleged leader of radical protesters killed in Boston Massacre | ||
| stubborn ruler, lustful for power, who promoted harsh ministers like Lord North | ||
| zealous defender of the common people's rights and organizer of underground propaganda committees | ||
| event organized by disguised "Indians" to sabotage British support of a British East India Company monopoly | ||
| harsh measures of retaliation for a tea party, including the Boston Port Act closing that city's harbor | ||
| British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston Tea Party | ||
| body led by John Adams that issued a Declaration of Rights and organized The Association to boycott all British goods | ||
| nineteen-year-old major general in the Revolutionary army | ||
| organizational genius who turned raw colonial recruits into tough professional soldiers | ||
| legislation that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops; disobeyed in New York and elsewhere |
