Terms for APUSH Chapter 7.
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| 453821045 | John Hancock | American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress. | 0 | |
| 453821046 | Lord North | British Prime Minister during revolution. He had passed the Coercive Acts and supported the king greatly to the extent that Britain was ruled only by the king. | 1 | |
| 453821047 | Gaspee Incident | A schooner was beached in Providence, RI, This upset Americans because it was one of the last of the customs racketeering ships. It was burned down by local inhabitants. It greatly angered the British and showed how militant the colonials were becoming. | 2 | |
| 453821048 | George Grenville | Became prime minister of Britain in 1763 he persuaded the Parliament to pass a law allowing smugglers to be sent to vice-admiralty courts which were run by British officers and had no jury. He did this to end smuggling. | 3 | |
| 453821049 | Samuel Adams | Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence. | 4 | |
| 453821050 | Charles Townshend | Brilliant British official who sponsored taxes for lead, glass, paper, paint & tea. Came up with Townshend Acts. | 5 | |
| 453821051 | John Adams | A strong believer in colonial independence. He argued against the Stamp Act. He urged the Second Continental Congress to declare independence. | 6 | |
| 453821052 | King George III | King of England during the American Revolution. | 7 | |
| 453821053 | Baron Von Steuben | Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War. | 8 | |
| 453821054 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. | 9 | |
| 453821055 | No taxation without representation | Reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament. | 10 | |
| 453821056 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. | 11 | |
| 453821057 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Enlightened philosopher who believed that human beings are naturally good and free. Government should exist to protect common good. | 12 | |
| 453821058 | Deism | the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation. | 13 | |
| 453827939 | Royal Veto | British right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial system if it went against Mercantilism. | 14 | |
| 453827940 | Internal Taxation | Taxations on personal goods and property. | 15 | |
| 453827941 | External Taxation | Dealt with taxing goods that were being imported (Townshend acts). | 16 | |
| 453827942 | Virtual Representation | British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members. | 17 | |
| 453827943 | Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five. The colonists blamed the British and used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution. | 18 | |
| 453827944 | Hessians | German soldiers hired by George III to smash Colonial rebellion. | 19 | |
| 453827945 | Crispus Attucks | A free black man who was the first person killed in the Revolution at the Boston Massacre. | 20 | |
| 453827946 | Sons of Liberty | Secret societies formed to protest new taxes passed by Parliament. Led the Boston Tea Party and threatened tax collectors. | 21 | |
| 453827947 | Quebec Act | Signed in 1774, intended to reorganize the way these British territories were governed. | 22 | |
| 453827948 | Navigation Acts | Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries. | 23 | |
| 453840241 | Declaratory Act | Act passed in 1766 just after the repeal of the Stamp Act. Stated that Parliament could legislate for the colonies in all cases. | 24 | |
| 453840242 | First Continental Congress | Delegates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence. | 25 | |
| 453840243 | Quartering Act | An act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists. | 26 | |
| 453840244 | Sugar Act | Law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies. | 27 | |
| 453840245 | Townshend Acts | Laws that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. | 28 | |
| 453840246 | The Association | A document produced by the Continental Congress that called for a complete boycott of British goods. This included non-importation, non-exportation and non-consumption. | 29 | |
| 453840247 | Stamp Act | A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies. | 30 | |
| 453840248 | Committees of Correspondence | Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies. | 31 | |
| 453840249 | Admiralty Courts | British courts established to try cases involving violations of the Navigation Acts. | 32 | |
| 453840250 | Boston Tea Party | Demonstration by citizens of Boston who raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor. | 33 | |
| 453840251 | Loyalists | American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence. | 34 | |
| 453840252 | Stamp Act Congress | Group of colonists who protested the Stamp Act, saying that Parliament couldn't tax without colonist' consent. | 35 | |
| 453840253 | Coercive Acts | This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance. Also known as the Intolerable Acts. | 36 | |
| 453840254 | 2nd Continental Congress | Group of men who became the United States 1st Government. Responsible for the Declaration of Independence. | 37 | |
| 453840255 | Casmir Pulaski | Polish cavalry officer who died fighting in the Battle of Savannah. | 38 |
