Mr. Baker's APUSH class 2012-2013 LAMP, Unit 2 vocabulary words.
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| 507167672 | Unitary | Centralized | |
| 507167673 | Jingoism | Extreme, chauvinistic patriotism, often favoring an aggressive, warlike foreign policy | |
| 507167674 | Tyranny | Denial of rights | |
| 507167675 | Custom | Money collected under a tariff | |
| 507167676 | Revolution | The development of a strong sense of authority and self-government which leads to rebellion | |
| 507167677 | Bellicose | Warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome | |
| 507167678 | 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. | |
| 507167679 | Thomas Hutchinson | Governor of Massachusetts who ordered cargo of tea to be unloaded in Boston despite colonial objection; his hoe (home) was destroyed by an angry mob in 1765 | |
| 507167680 | Paxton Boys | They were a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks. They made an armed march on Philadelphia in 1764. They protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the Indians. Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina. | |
| 507167681 | Thomas Jefferson | He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. | |
| 507167682 | Patrick Henry | a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies ("give me liberty or give me death") (1736-1799) | |
| 507167683 | Thomas Paine | Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he published The Rights of Man | |
| 507167684 | Richard Henry Lee | a member of the Philadelphia Congress during the late 1770's. On June 7, 1776 he declared, "These United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." This resolution was the start of the Declaration of Independence and end to British relations. | |
| 507167685 | Abigail Adams | Wife of John Adams. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront. She urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government he was helping to create. | |
| 507167686 | Mercy Otis Warren | Lady to whom Abigail Adams wrote that she fretted that the British were taking advantage of Americans' disagreement over the war of 1812 | |
| 507167687 | John Paul Jones | American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792) said " I have not yet begun to fight." | |
| 507167688 | Benjamin Franklin | American public official, writer, scientist, and printer; Poor Richard's Almanac (1732-1757); entered politics and played a major part in the American Revolution; helped draft the Constitution (1787-1789). His numerous scientific and practical innovations include the lightning rod, bifocal spectacles, and a stove. | |
| 507167689 | Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army. | |
| 507167690 | Phillis Wheatley | First African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects was published in 1773, pioneered African-American literature. One of the most well- known poets in America during her day | |
| 507167691 | George Mason | American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792) | |
| 507167692 | John Locke | argued that all men were born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and that a government's purpose was to protect these rights. His ideas were influential to the Constitution | |
| 507167693 | Samuel Adams | est. the first committee of correspondence in 1772 | |
| 507167694 | james wolfe | the British general whose success in the Battle of Quebec (1759) won Canada for the British Empire. killed on frontline; it was a decisive battle in the French and Indian War. | |
| 507167695 | George Greenville | enforced navigation laws, secured sugar act, imposed stamp act | |
| 507167696 | Pontiac | Ottawa chief who led indian attacks along the frontier | |
| 507167697 | James Otis | published a pamphlet in protest to the currency act (1764) [resistance] | |
| 507167698 | Quebec Act | guaranteed all rights to people of Quebec , esp Catholics (1774) | |
| 507167699 | James Madison | a.k.a. "Father of the Constitution"; created the Virginia Plan | |
| 507167700 | Virginia Plan | created by james madison: it defined a republic as any system of government that allows direct of indirect control of the people over who governs, proposed the creation of a bicameral legislature with representation in both houses proportional to population. Favored the large states, which would have a much greater voice. In opposition, the small states proposed the New Jersey Plan. In the end, the two sides found common ground through the Connecticut Compromise. | |
| 507167701 | regulators | These were vigilante groups active in the 1760s and 1770s in the western parts of North and South Carolina. They violently protested high taxes and insufficient representation in the colonial legislature. |
