Chapter 7 of the American Pageant for AP US History
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| Defined a just society as one in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish self interests to the common good | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| First aroused the resentment of the colonists in 1763 by ordering the British navy to begin strictly enforcing the Navigation Laws | ||
| 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 | ||
| Required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops | ||
| Mandated the use of stamped paper/the affixing of stamps | ||
| 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 | ||
| Reaffirmed Parliament's right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsover". It defined absolute and unqualified sovereignty over its North American colonies | ||
| Man who took control of the British ministry and introduced the Townshend Acts | ||
| Imposed a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea; was an indirect customs duty payable at American ports | ||
| When British troops opened fire into a jeering crowd, killing/wounding eleven people | ||
| One of the first to die in the Boston Massacre | ||
| Ruler of Britain attempting to assert the power of the British monarchy | ||
| Master propagandist and engineer of rebellion; organized the local committees of correspondence in Massachusetts | ||
| Standing committee created in 1773 in Virginia | ||
| Massachusetts governor that refused to be cowed by colonists and ordered tea ships not to clear Boston harbor until they'd emptied their loads | ||
| December 16, 1773 - About 100 Bostonians disguised as Indians smashed open 342 chests of tea and dumped them into Boston Harbor | ||
| Closed Boston Harbor until damages were paid and order could be ensured | ||
| Guaranteed French subjects their Catholic religion and permitted them to retain many of their old customs and institutions | ||
| Fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances | ||
| Swayed his colleagues at the First Continental Congress to a revolutionary course | ||
| Called for a complete boycott of British goods | ||
| Battle in which the British sent a detachment of troops to seize stores of colonial gunpowder | ||
| 19-yr-old French nobleman who was made a major general in the colonial army | ||
| Drillmaster who whipped his colonial soldiers into line | ||
| Royal governor of Virginia who issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army | ||
| 300 slaves who'd escaped to join the British army |
