IB History of Americas, AP US History, IBHOA, APUSH, bolded words
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| 1805342725 | Republicanism | a just society in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common good | 0 | |
| 1805342726 | Radical Whigs | a group of british politicla commentators, made attacks on the use of patronage and bribes by the king's ministers. they warned citizens to be on guard for possible corruption | 1 | |
| 1805342727 | Mercantilism | the colonial economy is carefully controlled to serve the mother country needs | 2 | |
| 1805342728 | Sugar Act 1764 | the first law passed by parliament to raise tax revenue in the colonies for england. it increased the tax on foreign sugan imported from the west indies | 3 | |
| 1805342729 | Quartering Act 1765 | required certain colonies to provide food and housing to british troops | 4 | |
| 1805342730 | Stamp Tax | imposed a stamp tax on the colonies to raise revenues to support the new military force. Taxed the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps | 5 | |
| 1805342731 | Admiralty Courts | Court system in which juries are not allowed | 6 | |
| 1805342732 | Stamp Act Congress 1765 | met in nyc to draw up a statement of colonial rights and grievances, and beseeched the king. step towards intercolonial unity. repealed in 1766 | 7 | |
| 1805342733 | nonimportation agreements | agreements boycotting British goods | 8 | |
| 1805342734 | Sons of Liberty/Daughters of Liberty | Group that enforced nonimportation agreements | 9 | |
| 1805342735 | Declaratory Act | act reaffirming parliaments right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever | 10 | |
| 1805342736 | Townshed Acts | added an import tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, etc. | 11 | |
| 1805342737 | Boston Massacre | 60 colonists attacked 10 redcoats, redcoats open fired | 12 | |
| 1805342738 | Committees of Correspondence | Groups created by American colonies in order to maintain communication with one another | 13 | |
| 1805342739 | Boston Tea Party | Rebellion against taxation by British in which the colonists dumped boxes of British tea off a British ship into the harbor | 14 | |
| 1805342740 | First Continental Congress | group that met in Philadelphia to address colonial grievances over the intolerable acts. Major step toward writing the constitution | 15 | |
| 1805342741 | The Association | most important outcome of the first continental congress. Called for a complete boycott of british goods | 16 | |
| 1805342742 | Lexington and Concord | troops went to lexington to seize provisions of colonial gunpowder, captured Samuel Adams and John Hancock. 8 colonists shot and killed. American resistance from lexington led to the beginning of the American Revolution | 17 | |
| 1805342743 | Valley Forge | The training of the pitiful colonial army i the winter in a gap of fighting | 18 | |
| 1805342744 | Camp Followers | Colonial women who contributed to the revolution by accompanying the American army cooking and sewing for the troops | 19 |
