The Road to Revolution
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| 1447243115 | republicanism | A philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. The government is based on consent of the governed. | 0 | |
| 1447243116 | radical Whigs | A group of British political commentators. They were very nervous about the power of Parliament and the arbitrary powers of the monarch. They warned the colonists to be always on the lookout for a violation of their rights. | 1 | |
| 1447243117 | 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 | 2 | |
| 1447243118 | Sugar Act | (1764) British deeply in debt partl to French & Indian War. English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors. | 3 | |
| 1447243119 | Quartering Act | 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies. | 4 | |
| 1447243120 | Stamp Act | 1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc. | 5 | |
| 1447243121 | admiralty courts | British courts originally established to try cases involving smuggling or violations of the Navigation Acts which the British government sometimes used to try American criminals in the colonies. Trials in Admiralty Courts were heard by judges without a jury. | 6 | |
| 1447243122 | Stamp Act Congress | A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament, and it showed signs of colonial unity and organized resistance. | 7 | |
| 1447243124 | nonimportation agreements | Agreements not to import goods from Great Britain. They were designed to put pressure on the British economy and force the repeal of unpopular parliamentary acts. | 8 | |
| 1447243127 | Sons of Liberty | A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. | 9 | |
| 1447243129 | Daughters of Liberty | An organization formed by women prior to the American Revolution They got together to protest treatment of the colonies by their British Rulers | 10 | |
| 1447243131 | 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. | 11 | |
| 1447243133 | Townshend Acts | A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea | 12 | |
| 1447243136 | Boston Massacre | 1770, street clash between townspeople and Irish soldiers ordered to guard British custom houses. | 13 | |
| 1447243137 | committees of correspondence | A network of communicaiton set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights | 14 | |
| 1447243139 | Boston Tea party | A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor. | 15 | |
| 1447243141 | "Intolerable Acts" | in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses | 16 | |
| 1447243143 | Quebec Act | Extended boundaries of Quebec and granted equal rights to Catholics and recognized legality Catholic Church in the territory; colonists feared this meant that a pope would soon oversee the colonies. | 17 | |
| 1447243144 | First Continental Congress | Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence | 18 | |
| 1447243145 | The Association | A military organization formed by Benjamin Franklin which formed fighting units in Pennsylvania and erected two batteries on the Delaware River. | 19 | |
| 1447243146 | Lexington and Concord Battles | April 8, 1775: Gage leads 700 soldiers to confiscate colonial weapons and arrest Adam, and Hancock; April 19, 1775: 70 armed militia face British at Lexington (shot heard around the world); British retreat to Boston, suffer nearly 300 casualties along the way (concord) | 20 | |
| 1447243147 | Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton, Steuben comes and trains troops | 21 | |
| 1447243148 | camp followers | Women and children who followed the Continental Army during the American Revolution, providing vital services such as cooking and sewing in return for rations. | 22 | |
| 1447243149 | John Hancock | American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress | 23 | |
| 1447243150 | 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. | 24 | |
| 1447243151 | Charles (Champagne Charley) Townshend | Gifted public speaker who seized control of British ministry and passed Townshend Acts. | 25 | |
| 1447243152 | Crispus Attucks | A free black man who was the first person killed in the Revolution at the Boston Massacre. | 26 | |
| 1447243153 | George III | Became King of England in 1760, and reigned during the American Revolution. | 27 | |
| 1447243154 | Lord North | 1770's-1782 King George III's stout prime minister (governor during Boston Tea Party) in the 1770's. Lord North's rule fell in March of 1782, which therefore ended the rule of George III for a short while. | 28 | |
| 1447243155 | Samuel Adams | American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence | 29 | |
| 1447243156 | Thomas Hutchinson | British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston Tea Party | 30 | |
| 1447243157 | Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army. | 31 | |
| 1447243158 | Baron von Steuben | A stern, Prussian drillmaster that taught American soldiers during the Revolutionary War how to successfully fight the British. | 32 | |
| 1447243159 | Lord Dunmore | Royal governor of Virginia who issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army | 33 |
