Chapter 7 of the American Pageant for AP US History
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| 889322704 | Republicanism | Defined a just society as one in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish self interests to the common good | |
| 889322705 | Mercantilism | Followers believed that wealth was power and that a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury | |
| 889322706 | Navigation Law of 1650 | Law passed by Parliament to regulate the mercantilist system; aimed at rival Dutch shippers. Said that all commerce flowing to and from the colonies could only be transported in British/colonial vessels | |
| 889322707 | George Grenville | First aroused the resentment of the colonists in 1763 by ordering the British navy to begin strictly enforcing the Navigation Laws | |
| 889322708 | Sugar Act of 1764 | First law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown; among various provisions, it increased the duty on foreign sugar | |
| 889322709 | Quartering Act of 1765 | Required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops | |
| 889322710 | Stamp Act of 1765 | Mandated the use of stamped paper/the affixing of stamps | |
| 889322711 | Stamp Act Congress of 1765 | Assemblage in New York City which brought together 27 delegates who drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act | |
| 889322712 | Declaratory Act of 1766 | Reaffirmed Parliament's right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsover". It defined absolute and unqualified sovereignty over its North American colonies | |
| 889322713 | Charley Townshend | Man who took control of the British ministry and introduced the Townshend Acts | |
| 889322714 | Townshend Acts of 1767 | Imposed a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea; was an indirect customs duty payable at American ports | |
| 889322715 | Boston Massacre of 1770 | When British troops opened fire into a jeering crowd, killing/wounding eleven people | |
| 889322716 | Crispus Attucks | One of the first to die in the Boston Massacre | |
| 889322717 | King George III | Ruler of Britain attempting to assert the power of the British monarchy | |
| 889322718 | Samuel Adams | Master propagandist and engineer of rebellion; organized the local committees of correspondence in Massachusetts | |
| 889322719 | House of Burgesses | Standing committee created in 1773 in Virginia | |
| 889322720 | Thomas Hutchinson | Massachusetts governor that refused to be cowed by colonists and ordered tea ships not to clear Boston harbor until they'd emptied their loads | |
| 889322721 | Boston Tea Party | December 16, 1773 - About 100 Bostonians disguised as Indians smashed open 342 chests of tea and dumped them into Boston Harbor | |
| 889322722 | Boston Port Act | Closed Boston Harbor until damages were paid and order could be ensured | |
| 889322723 | Quebec Act of 1774 | Guaranteed French subjects their Catholic religion and permitted them to retain many of their old customs and institutions | |
| 889322724 | First Continental Congress | Fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances | |
| 889322725 | John Adams | Swayed his colleagues at the First Continental Congress to a revolutionary course | |
| 889322726 | The Association | Called for a complete boycott of British goods | |
| 889322727 | Battle at Lexington | Battle in which the British sent a detachment of troops to seize stores of colonial gunpowder | |
| 889322728 | Marquis de Lafayette | 19-yr-old French nobleman who was made a major general in the colonial army | |
| 889322729 | Baron von Steuben | Drillmaster who whipped his colonial soldiers into line | |
| 889322730 | Lord Dunmore | Royal governor of Virginia who issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army | |
| 889322731 | Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment | 300 slaves who'd escaped to join the British army |
