Chapter 7 - The Road to Revolution (1763-1775)
Terms : Hide Images
| 1741131834 | Republicanismt | a just society in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common good. | 0 | |
| 1741131835 | Radical Whigs | a group of British political commentators, made attacks on the use of patronage and bribes by the king's ministers. | 1 | |
| 1741131836 | Georgia | was the only colony to be formed by Britain. | 2 | |
| 1741131837 | Navigation Law of 1650 | stated that all goods flowing to and from the colonies could only be transported in British vessels. It was aimed to hurt rival Dutch shippers. | 3 | |
| 1741131838 | Sugar Act of 1764 | the first law ever passed by Parliament to raise tax revenue in the colonies for England. | 4 | |
| 1741131839 | Quartering Act of 1765 | required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. | 5 | |
| 1741131840 | Stamp Act | In 1765, mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps, certifying payment of tax. | 6 | |
| 1741131841 | Nonimportation agreements | agreements made to not import British goods were a stride toward unionism. | 7 | |
| 1741131842 | Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty | took the law into their own hands by enforcing the nonimportation agreements. | 8 | |
| 1741131843 | Stamp Act repealed | was repealed by Parliament in 1766. | 9 | |
| 1741131844 | Declaratory Act | Parliament passed the act, reaffirming its right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever. | 10 | |
| 1741131845 | Townshend Acts | In 1767, Parliament passed a light import tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. | 11 | |
| 1741131846 | Boston Massacre | British officials, faced with a breakdown of law and order, landed 2 regiments of troops in the colonies in 1768. On March 5, 1770, a crowd of 60 townspeople attacked 10 redcoats and the redcoats opened fired on the civilians, killing/wounding 11 of them. | 12 | |
| 1741131847 | The Seditious Committees of Correspondence | Lord North was forced to persuade Parliament to repeal the Townshend revenue duties. | 13 | |
| 1741131848 | Samuel Adams | master propagandist and engineer of rebellion; formed the first local committee of correspondence in Massachusetts in 1772 (Sons of Liberty). | 14 | |
| 1741131849 | Committees of Correspondance | were created by the American colonies in order to maintain communication with one another. They were organized in the decade before the Revolution when communication between the colonies became essential. | 15 | |
| 1741131850 | Virginia House of Burgesses | In March of 1773, proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondance. Within just a year, nearly all of the colonies had joined. | 16 | |
| 1741131851 | Boston Tea Party | In 1773, the British East India Company was overstocked with 17 million pounds of unsold tea. If the company collapsed, the London government would lose much money. Therefore, the London government gave the company a full monopoly of the tea sell in America. Fearing that it was trick to pay more taxes on tea, the Americans rejected the tea. When the ships arrived in the Boston harbor, the governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, forced the citizens to allow the ships to unload their tea. On December 16, 1773, a band of Bostonians, disguised as Indians, boarded the ships and dumped the tea into the sea. | 17 | |
| 1741131852 | Intolerable Acts | In 1774, Parliament punished the people of Massachusetts for their actions in the Boston Tea Party. Parliament passed laws which restricted colonists' rights. The laws made restrictions on town meetings, and stated that enforcing officials who killed colonists in the line of duty would be sent to Britain for trial (where it was assumed they would be acquitted of their charges). | 18 | |
| 1741131853 | Boston Port Act | It closed the Boston harbor until damages were paid and order could be ensured, part of the Intolerable Acts. | 19 | |
| 1741131854 | Quebec Act | was also passed in 1774, but was not apart of the Intolerable Acts. It gave Catholic French Canadians religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law; this law nullified many of the Western claims of the coast colonies by extending the boundaries of the province of Quebec to the Ohio River on the south and to the Mississippi River on the west. | 20 | |
| 1741131855 | 1st Continental Congress | In 1774, met in Philadelphia in order to redress colonial grievances over the Intolerable Acts. The 13 colonies, excluding Georgia, sent 55 men to the convention. | 21 | |
| 1741131856 | The Association | was the most important outcome of the Congress. It called for a complete boycott of British goods; nonimportation, nonexportation, and nonconsumption. | 22 | |
| 1741131857 | rebel ringleaders | In April 1775, the British commander in Boston sent a detachment of troops to Lexington. They were to seize provisions of colonial gunpowder and to capture, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. | 23 | |
| 1741131858 | Lexington Massacre | 8 Americans were shot and killed. When the British went on to Concord, they were met with American resistance and there were over 300 casualties and 70 deaths. Because of this, the British had a war, rather than a rebellion on their hands. | 24 | |
| 1741131859 | Marquis de Lafayette | French who was made a major general in the colonial army at the age of 19; the "French Gamecock"; his services were invaluable in securing further aid from France. | 25 | |
| 1741131860 | Articles of Confederation | was adopted in 1781. It was the first written constitution adopted by colonists. Due to the lack of metallic money in America, Continental Congress was forced to print "Continental" paper money. Within a short time, this money depreciated significantly and individual states were forced to print their own paper money. | 26 | |
| 1741131861 | Valley Forge, Pennsylvania | American men went without food for 3 days in the winter of 1777-1778. | 27 | |
| 1741131862 | Baron von Steuben | German who helped to whip the America fighters into shape for fighting the British. | 28 | |
| 1741131863 | Lord Dunmore | royal (British) governor of Virginia. In 1775, he issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army. | 29 | |
| 1741131864 | Prime Minister George Grenville | the main man that enforced the Navigation Laws | 30 |
