VOCABULARY WORDS THAT WILL BE HELPFUL FOR THE US HISTORY I MIDTERM (TEACHER: MR. BOSMANS)
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| 48293491 | Stamp Act | required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, newspaper, or pamphlet | |
| 48293492 | Samuel Adams | founder of the Sons of Liberty | |
| 48293493 | Townshend Acts | indirect taxes on imported materials like glass, lead, and paint | |
| 48293494 | Boston Massare | small battle between a few colonists and British guards (resulted in the death of Crispus Attucks) | |
| 48293495 | Committees of Correspondence | used to communicate with other colonies about threats to American liberties | |
| 48293496 | Boston Tea Party | colonists revolted by dressing up as Indians and dumping 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor | |
| 48293497 | King George III | king of England | |
| 48293498 | Intolerable Acts | one law shut down the Boston Harbor, another ordered quartering to be legal | |
| 48293499 | Marial Law | rule imposed by the military | |
| 48293500 | Minutemen | civilian soldiers | |
| 48293501 | Second Continental Congress | a group that discussed and represented the people | |
| 48293502 | Olive Branch Petition | urged an immediate return to the former harmony between Britain and the colonies | |
| 48293503 | Common Sense | a pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, that explained the people's complaints with King George III | |
| 48293504 | Thomas Jefferson | a virginia lawyer who was chosen to express the commitee's points in the Declaration of Independence | |
| 48293505 | Declaration of Independence | document that described the people's rights | |
| 48293506 | Patriots | people that were supporters of Independence | |
| 48293507 | Loyalists | those who opposed independence and remained loyal to the Crown | |
| 48293508 | Valley Forge | the site of the Continental Army's camp during the winter of 1777-1778 | |
| 48293509 | Trenton | location where the Continental Army attacked and killed 30 Hessians and held 918 captive | |
| 48293510 | Saratoga | where General Burgoyne surrendered his battered army to General Gates on October 17, 1777 | |
| 48293511 | Inflation | rising prices | |
| 48293512 | Yorktown | location of the British surrender on October 19, 1781 | |
| 48293513 | Marquis de Lafayette | french military leader that helped out with the wars in the US | |
| 48293514 | Friedrich von Steuben | a prussian military drillmaster that made the Continental Army into a stronger fighting force | |
| 48293515 | Treaty of Paris | confirmed U.S. independence and set the boundaries of the new nation | |
| 48293516 | Republic | a government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives | |
| 48293517 | Articles of Confederation | set of laws in which state governments were supreme in some matters while the national government was supreme in other matters | |
| 48293518 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | established a plan for surveying the land | |
| 48293519 | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | provided a precedure for dividing the land into territories | |
| 48293520 | Shay's Rebellion | the protest of farmers because of their debt problems | |
| 48293521 | James Madison | called a meeting to discuss issues of interstate trade | |
| 48293522 | Great Compromise | offered a large two-house Congress to satisfy both small and big states | |
| 48293523 | Three Fifths Compromise | called for three-fifths of a state's slaves to be counted as population | |
| 48293524 | Federalism | a system of government that divided power between national government and state governments | |
| 48293525 | Legislative Branch | branch of government that makes laws | |
| 48293526 | Executive Branch | branch of government that carrys out laws | |
| 48293527 | Judicial Branch | branch of government that interprets the law | |
| 48293528 | Checks and Balances | governmental system that prevents one branch from dominating the others | |
| 48293529 | Electoral College | group of electors chosen by the states that would cast ballots for the candidates | |
| 48293530 | Ratification | official approval | |
| 48293531 | Federalists | supporters of the Constitution | |
| 48293532 | Antifederalists | group who did not support the Constitution because they opposed having such a strong central government | |
| 48293533 | Bill of Rights | a list of amendments, or rights, that were guaranteed to citizens of the U.S. |
