Terms associated with American Revolution for AP US History students
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| 5114836060 | French and Indian War | Was a war fought by French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in 1763. | 0 | |
| 5114836061 | Albany Plan of Union | Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes | 1 | |
| 5114836062 | Navigation Acts | Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. | 2 | |
| 5114836063 | Proclamation of 1763 | Prohitibted colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. the law hoped to prevent future hostilities between colonists and Native Americans. | 3 | |
| 5114836064 | Salutary Neglect | Unrestricted trade in the colonies would be more profitable for England than would taxation of the colonies. (ignoring Navigation Acts) | 4 | |
| 5114836065 | Sugar Act | Law passed in 1764 that modified the 1733 Molasses Act thus reducing the amount of taxes collected on molasses and sugar, but increasing the measures to enforce the Act. | 5 | |
| 5114836066 | George Grenville | British Prime Minister Architect of the Sugar Act; his method of taxation and crackdown on colonial smuggling were widely disliked by Americans. He passed the Stamp Act arguing that colonists received virtual representation in Parliament. | 6 | |
| 5114836067 | Virtual representation | The British argument that the American colonies were represented in Parliament, since the members of Parliament represented all Englishmen in the empire. | 7 | |
| 5114836068 | Stamp Act | An act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents. | 8 | |
| 5114836069 | Townshend Acts | Charles Townshend's tax for the Americans on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. The colonists protested again as a result. | 9 | |
| 5114836070 | Tea Act | Act eliminated import duties entering England, lowering the selling price to consumers, also allowing selling directly to consumers, hurting middlemen. It angered the colonies since it gave a monopoly to the British East India Tea Company, thus forcing local tea sellers out of business. | 10 | |
| 5114836071 | George Grenville | Appointed by King George III as the Prime Minister, he had the opinion that the colonists should obey the laws and pay a part of the cost of defending and administering the British empire. | 11 | |
| 5114836072 | Peace of Paris | This ended the Seven Years War/French and Indian war between Britain and her allies and France and her allies. | 12 | |
| 5114836073 | Peace of Paris | Signed on September 3, 1783, the treaty ending the Revolutionary war and recognizing American independence from Britain. | 13 | |
| 5114836074 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. | 14 | |
| 5114836075 | Currency Act | This act applied to all of the colonies. It banned the production of paper money in the colonies in an effort to combat the inflation caused by Virginia's decision to get itself out of debt by issuing more paper money. | 15 | |
| 5114836076 | Stamp Act | A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 requiring colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and even playing cards. | 16 | |
| 5114836077 | Stamp Act Congress | A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act in 1765. It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament; the first sign of colonial unity and organized resistance. | 17 | |
| 5114836078 | Virtual representation | The British argument that the American colonies were represented in Parliament, since the members of Parliament represented all Englishmen in the empire. | 18 | |
| 5114836079 | Sons of Liberty | A radical political organization formed after the passage of the Stamp Act to protest various British acts; organization used both peaceful and violent means of protest | 19 | |
| 5114836080 | Samuel Adams | Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence | 20 | |
| 5114836081 | Declaratory Act | Act passed in 1766 right after the repeal of the Stamp Act; stated that Parliament could legislate for the colonies in all cases. | 21 | |
| 5114836082 | Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania | 1767, Pamphlet by John Dickinson that argued against Taxation Without Representation, and that the only way that the colonies could properly be represented by the British government was if they had members in it. | 22 | |
| 5114836083 | Boston Massacre | a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. | 23 | |
| 5114836084 | Quartering Act | March 24, 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies. | 24 | |
| 5114836085 | Committees of Correspondence | Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication by interchanging letters | 25 | |
| 5114836086 | Tea Act | 1773-Act which eliminated import tariffs on tea entering England and allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to consumers rather than through merchants. Led to the Boston Tea Party. | 26 | |
| 5114836087 | Intolerable Act | Laws made to punish Massachusetts because of the Boston tea party and because the colonists were getting out of control; Boston Harbor was closed until Boston paid for the lost tea | 27 | |
| 5114836088 | First Continental Congress | Convened on September 5, 1774, to protest the Intolerable Acts. The congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, voted for a boycott of British imports, and sent a petition to King George III | 28 | |
| 5114836089 | Olive Branch Petition | Still pledge loyalty to King George III but are still asking Britain to respect the rights and liberties of the colonies, repeal oppressive legislation, and British troops out of the colonies | 29 | |
| 5114836090 | Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain | 30 | |
| 5114836091 | Declaration of Independence | This document was adopted on July 4, 1776. It established the 13 American colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great Britain. | 31 |
