Vocab highlighted for test from The American Pageant: Chapter 7
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| 1820194956 | Mercantilism | Economic policy where a country's worth is measured by the amount of gold ad silver in its reserves | 0 | |
| 1820194957 | Navigation Laws | Laws enforced on America by Britain in order to enforce Mercantilism. The first of these was used to oust the Dutch from American shipping. These laws restricted American trade to England and back via the use of English ships | 1 | |
| 1820194958 | Enumerated Goods | Goods that could only be shipped to England | 2 | |
| 1820194959 | Privy Council | Council that could void colonial laws but was used only 469 times out of 8,563 laws | 3 | |
| 1820194960 | Salutary Neglect | A lack of enforcement on the part of Britain of colonial laws | 4 | |
| 1820194961 | John Hancock | Man who amassed a fortune through smuggling | 5 | |
| 1820194962 | Prime Minister George Grenville | An honest and noble financier who was not noted for tact, enforcing the Navigation Laws and and arousing the hate of the colonists | 6 | |
| 1820194963 | Quartering Act | Act passed in 1765 that required certain colonies to provide food and quarters to British troops | 7 | |
| 1820194964 | Stamp Act | Act that mandated the use of stamped paper of affixing stamps to certify the payment of tax. Stamps were required on bills of trade for about 50 items as well as on certain commercial ad legal documents | 8 | |
| 1820194965 | "No taxation without representation" | The American battle cry | 9 | |
| 1820194966 | Virtual Representation | Policy pushed by Grenville in which each Parliamentarian represented all British subjects | 10 | |
| 1820194967 | Stamp Act Congress | A step toward colonial unity in which representatives from 9 of the 13 colonies met in New York to discuss the Stamp Tax | 11 | |
| 1820194968 | Declaratory Act | Act that replaced the Stamp Act where Parliament had the right to bind the colonies in all maters whatsoever | 12 | |
| 1820194969 | Townshend Acts | Act that put light taxes on lead, paper, paint and tea. All of these were later repealed except the Tea. | 13 | |
| 1820194970 | Crispus Attucks | A former slave who was the supposed leader of the Boston Massacre | 14 | |
| 1820194971 | Boston Massacre | An attack by British soldiers who were heavily provoked, but without orders, on American civilians, wounding or killing eleven civilians | 15 | |
| 1820194972 | Lord North | A sycophant who persuaded King George III and led a group of Tory Whigs who hoped England would loose the war, fearing if England won then George III would become tyrannical | 16 | |
| 1820194973 | Committees of Correspondence | Group set up by Sam Adams that spread propaganda used to keep the revolutionary spirit alive | 17 | |
| 1820194974 | British East India Compony | Company facing bankruptcy who had excess tea and tried to sell it to Americans, triggering the Boston Tea Party | 18 | |
| 1820194975 | Boston Tea Party | Event occurring on December 16, 1773 in which colonists who were led by Sam Adams disguised themselves as indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor | 19 | |
| 1820194976 | Intolerable Acts | Acts passed by Parliament in 1774 to punish the colonists. They were called the Repressive Acts in Parliament | 20 | |
| 1820194977 | Boston Port Act | Most drastic of the Intolerable Acts which closed the Boston Port | 21 | |
| 1820194978 | Quebec Act | Act passed by Parliament that extended the boundaries of Quebec to the Ohio River, outraging colonists who were now closer to Catholics | 22 | |
| 1820194979 | The First Continental Congress | Meeting in Philadelphia from September 5th through October 26th, 1774 in which 12 of the 13 colonies(Georgia didn't attend) sent representatives to talk about the Intolerable Acts, creating a list of grievances and the Declaration of Rights | 23 | |
| 1820194980 | Declaration of Rights | Document created by the First Continental Congress | 24 | |
| 1820194981 | "Shot Heard 'Round the World'" | The first shot by minutemen fighting the British at Lexington and Concord | 25 | |
| 1820194982 | Lexington and Concord | Attacks by the British in an attempt to gain supplies and capture John Hancock and Sam Adams, they won at Lexington but were pushed back at Concord | 26 | |
| 1820194983 | Hessians | German mercenaries brought in by George III in order to fight the Americans | 27 | |
| 1820194984 | Marquis de Lafayette | An advantage that the Americans had. A Major General in the colonial army who was a great asset at the age of 19 | 28 | |
| 1820194985 | Baron von Steuben | Prussian who didn't speak English but whipped the colonists into shape | 29 |
