Ch 4 + 5 Terms
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| 36175427 | Salutary Neglect | Not to enforce laws. British policy of lenience towards the colonies before 1763. | |
| 36175428 | Albany Plan of Union | Proposed by Benjamin Franklin. The plan placed the colonies under a centralized government that only delt with Native American affairs. Was rejected. | |
| 36175429 | Writs of Assistance | general search warrant used by British customs officers to prevent smuggling | |
| 36175430 | Treaty of Paris of 1763 | Treaty that ended French and Indian War. Eliminated France as a colonial power in North America. France surrendered all of its territory west of the Mississippi River + New Orleans to Spain, and gave Britain Canada and all French territory east of the Mississippi except New Orleans. Britain also gained Spanish Florida from Spain. | |
| 36175431 | Acts of Trade and Navigation | 3 acts. 1st closed the colonies to all trade except that from English ships, and required the colonists to export certain goods, such as tobacco, to only English territories.The second act (1663) demanded that everything being shipped from Europe to the colonies had to pass through England so they could tax the goods. The third act, in 1673, was a reaction to the general disregard of the first two laws; it forced duties on the costal trade among the colonies and supplied customs officials to enforce the Navigation Acts. | |
| 36175432 | Proclamation of 1763 | denied colonists settlement past the Appalachian mountains. | |
| 36175433 | Paxton Boys (Penn.) | group of farmers that were angered because they had no representation in government. Wanted protection from Indians. | |
| 36175434 | Regulator Movement | a rebellion started by inland North Carolina residents. Believed that royal government officials were charging them unjustly. Wanted to regulate their own affairs | |
| 36175435 | Stamp Act | tax that forced Americans to pay for a stamp. Affected all colonists from journalists, to tavern owners, to ship makers and sailors. | |
| 36175436 | Stamp Act Congress | An assembly of delegates formed by 9 of the American colonies to protest against the Stamp Act. Wrote A Declaration of Rights an Grievances, an address to the King, and a group of petitions to both houses of British Parliament. | |
| 36175437 | Boston Massacre | a widely known propagandist image. Depicts British soldiers taking carrying out a planned attack on a group of Bostonians. In truth, the Bostonians were harassing a group of sentries outside the custom's house. A snowball was thrown, causing one of the soldier's gun to go off. The other soldiers, afraid, though that it was an order to attack. Bullets were fired out of self defense. 5 colonists were shot dead. | |
| 36175438 | Townshend Duties, 1767 | taxes with the purpose of raising revenue. They tightened customs enforcement, and asserting imperial authority in America. Levied import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. | |
| 36175439 | Quartering Act, 1765 | a law that required colonists to house and feed British soldiers within their own homes. Invasion of Privacy | |
| 36175440 | Tea Act, 1773 | created a monopoly on Tea for the East India Company by allowing their tea to be unaffected by the Navigation Acts. | |
| 36175441 | Committees of Correspondence | Intercolonial system that allowed the colonies to cooperate with each other | |
| 36175442 | Boston Tea Party | Act of protest against the Tea Act. On December 16,1773, Samuel Adams led a group of men on to 3 docked British ships and tossed over its supply of tea. | |
| 36175443 | Intolerable (Coercive) Acts | 4 acts affecting massachusetts after the Bostonians refused to pay for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. These laws closed the port of Boston, reduced self -government in Massachusetts, suspended the colony's charter and forced citizens to quarter soldiers. | |
| 36175444 | First Continental Congress | A meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies except Georgia in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, on September 1774, to discuss what should be done about the Intolerable Acts. | |
| 36175445 | Second Continental Congress | A meeting of colonial delegates on May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Declared independence from Britain, adopted the Declaration of Independence, then adopted the Articles of Confederation after the American Revolution | |
| 36175446 | Continental Association | An association of colonists to enforce the intercolonial boycotts. | |
| 36175447 | Suffolk Resolves | Declaration made on September 9, 1774. Urged colonists to boyott British Products. | |
| 36175448 | Galloway Plan | Very similar to Albany plan. United colonies, but under Great Britain's authority. Proposed by joseph Galloway. Was never passed. | |
| 36175449 | Declaration of Independence | Explained and declared the war against Britain. | |
| 36175450 | Declaratory Act. | passed March 18, 1776. States that Parliament has total authority over the colonies in all cases | |
| 36175451 | The Conway Cabal | effort in 1777 and 1778 to remove George Washington as the commander of the Continental army during the American Revolution. | |
| 36175452 | The Gaspee Incident | An act of protest in which residents of Rhode Island burned the British ship Gaspee. Britain took the accused colonists to England to be put on trial. | |
| 36175453 | Battle of Saratoga | The American Revolution's turning point. General John Burgoyne defeats General Horatio Gates. | |
| 36175454 | Yorktown | The battle that ended the Revolutionary War. George Washington with French leaders Count Rochambeau and Marquis de Lafayette and General Anthony Wayne trap General Cornwallis. | |
| 36175455 | Trenton | A battle held on Decomber 26, 1776 in Trenton, New Jersey. George Washington took his troops across the icy Delaware River to suprise the British and Hessian forces at Trenton. | |
| 36175456 | Valley Forge | campsite of the American Continental Army during the winter of 1777 - 1778. | |
| 36175457 | Parson's Cause | a dispute in Virginia in 1758 over tobacco prices/debt | |
| 36175458 | Sons of Liberty | group in Massachusetts formed by Samuel Adams. Major source of power that led colonies into the American Revolution. | |
| 36175459 | Loyalists | colonists who were still "loyal" to the crown. Were called Tories in America by Patriots | |
| 36175460 | Mutiny(Quartering) Act (1765) | required colonists to aid in providing, food, housing and supplies for the British troops in America | |
| 36175461 | Quebec Act (1774) | created permanent administration in Canada. prevented further settlement of the west | |
| 36175462 | Common Sense | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. Stimulated the growing cause for independence | |
| 36175463 | "Virtual" representation | the idea that each member of Parliament represents the interests of the entire empire | |
| 36175464 | "Actual" representation | allowed a representative from each community to participate in an assembly | |
| 36175465 | "No taxation without representation" | the slogan that represented American's thoughts that the right of people to be taxed only with consent | |
| 36175466 | Sugar and Molasses Act (1764) | law that was designed to stop the illegal sugar trade between the colonies. placed a duty on sugar and lowered the duty on molasses (by product of sugar). Established new vice-admiralty courts without juries in America to accuse smuggles. |
