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| 5108021080 | Mercantilism | idea that a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold in its treasury | 0 | |
| 5108021081 | Navigation Laws | laws that regulated trade to benefit England's Mercantilist system- only allowed them to trade with Britain | 1 | |
| 5108021082 | Enumerated Products | products tat had to be sent to Britain, even though there might be better prices | 2 | |
| 5108021083 | Monetary Deflation | there wasn't enough money in the colonies- had to print their own | 3 | |
| 5108021084 | Royal Veto | British right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial system if it went against Mercantalism | 4 | |
| 5108021085 | Salutary Neglect | time from after King William's War to the French and Indian war where Britain let the colonies run themselves | 5 | |
| 5108021086 | John Hancock | rich colonist who made money by smuggling around the Navigation Laws | 6 | |
| 5108021088 | George Grenville | the Prime Minister of Britain- ordered the navy to enforce the Navigation Acts- created the Sugar Act | 7 | |
| 5108021089 | Sugar Act | 1st law 1765- passed by Parliament that raised taxes of colonists- on imported sugar | 8 | |
| 5108021090 | Quartering Act | 1765- required colonists to provide food and shelter to British troops | 9 | |
| 5108021091 | Stamp Act | 1765- mandated use of stamps that taxed most paper products | 10 | |
| 5108021092 | Admiralty Courts | trial where there is no jury- defendant was assumed to be guilty | 11 | |
| 5108021093 | Virtual Representation | representatives in Parliament represented all citizens- colonists didn't believe and wanted their own reprentative | 12 | |
| 5108021094 | Stamp Act Congress | 1765- brought together 27 delegates from 9 colonies- asked King to repeal Act | 13 | |
| 5108021096 | Sons of Liberty | enforced the Nonimportation Agreements- mobs violently ransacked officials' houses | 14 | |
| 5108021097 | Daughters of Liberty | the female version of the Sons of Liberty | 15 | |
| 5108021098 | Declaratory Act | Britain declares it has complete control over the colonies | 16 | |
| 5108021099 | Charles Townshend | persuaded Parliament to pass the Townshend Acts | 17 | |
| 5108021100 | Townshend Acts | act that put light taxes on lead, paper, paint and tea- hated by Americans because the profits were used to pay the government officials | 18 | |
| 5108021101 | Red Coats | British soldiers- sent to enforce the Townshend Acts | 19 | |
| 5108021103 | John Adams | defense attorney of the British troops in the Boston Massacre- future president | 20 | |
| 5108021104 | King George III | King who tried to assert the power of the British monarchy | 21 | |
| 5108021105 | Lord North | George's corrupt prime minister | 22 | |
| 5108021106 | Samuel Adams | organizer of rebellion- started the committees of correspondence | 23 | |
| 5108021107 | Committees of Correspondence | ways for the colonies to comunicated with each other- the future Congresses | 24 | |
| 5108021108 | British East India Company | company was going to go bankrupt, British government let them sell left over tea to Americans at a cheap price, while still taxing it | 25 | |
| 5108021110 | Boston Tea Party | colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor- led to Intolerable Acts | 26 | |
| 5108021111 | Intolerable Acts | acts that removed many of the rights of the colonists- Boston Port closes, British officials could be tried in England, the charter of Massachusetts revoked, guaranteed Catholicism to French-Canadians (good law) | 27 | |
| 5108021112 | Boston Port Act | Britain closed the harbor as punishment until the damages were paid | 28 | |
| 5108021113 | Quebec Act | French-Canadians were guaranteed Catholicism | 29 | |
| 5108021114 | First Continental Congress | 1774- ment in Philadelphia to discuss colony problems- came up with list of grievances (ignored by Britain), and Declaration of Rights, agreed to meet the next year | 30 | |
| 5108021115 | The Association | organization that wanted a complete boycott of British goods | 31 | |
| 5108021116 | Minutemen | name of the colonial militia | 32 | |
| 5108021117 | Lexington | 8 Americans are killed by Red Coats trying to seize power and capture Sam Adams and John Hancock- the first battle of the Revolutionary war | 33 | |
| 5108021118 | Concord | Red coats pushed on, but were pushed back by colonists- one of the first battles of the war | 34 | |
| 5108021119 | Hessians | professional German soldiers hired by the British to fight in the war- not really commited | 35 | |
| 5108021120 | Loyalists | colonists who supported Britian | 36 | |
| 5108021121 | Marquis de Lafayette | French general- helped fund the war for the Americans | 37 | |
| 5108021122 | Continental Currency | money printed by the Continental Congress- worthless | 38 | |
| 5108021123 | Valley Forge | cold battle in the winter where thecolonists were almost naked | 39 | |
| 5108021124 | Patriots | name for American fighters and supporters | 40 | |
| 5108021125 | Baron von Steuben | stern drillmaster- whipped the soldiers into shape | 41 |
