AP US History Chapter 5 Flashcards

11362769188	Sugar Act of 1764	British law that decreased the duty on French molasses. The act enraged New England merchants who opposed the tax.	0
11362769189	vice-admiralty courts	a maritime court presided over a royally appointed judge, with no jury.	1
11362769190	Stamp Act of 1765	British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies. Resistance led to its early repeal in 1766.	2
11362769191	virtual representation	claim made by British politicians that the interests of the colonists were fairly represented in Parliament	3
11362769192	Quartering Act of 1765	British law passed by Parliament that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops	4
11362769193	Stamp Act Congress	congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 that challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts	5
11362769194	Sons of Liberty	colonists who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s	6
11362769195	English common law	English body of legal rules that protected the lives and property of the monarch's subjects	7
11362769196	natural rights	the rights to life, liberty, and property	8
11362769197	Declaratory Act of 1766	British law that asserted Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies	9
11362769198	Townshend Act of 1767	British law that established new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters' color. This led to boycotts and heightened tensions.	10
11362769199	nonimportation movement	the pressuring of colonial merchants to stop importing British goods by colonial radicals	11
11362769200	committees of correspondence	a communications network established in the colonies to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments	12
11362769201	Tea Act of May 1773	British act that lowered the existing tax on tea. Resistance to the Tea Act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts	13
11362769202	Coercive Acts	four British acts in 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for its rebellious behavior. Led to open and stronger rebellion.	14
11362769203	Continental Congress	September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the Coercive Acts. The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain	15
11362769204	Continental Association	association established by the First Continental Congress to impose its boycott on English goods	16
11362769205	Dunmore's War	1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor against the Ohio Shawnees. The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia claimed Kentucky as their own	17
11362769206	Minutemen	colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s	18
11362769207	Second Continental Congress	legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 to the end of the war	19
11362769208	Declaration of Independence	a document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain. It was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776	20
11362769209	popular sovereignty	the principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate	21
11362769210	George Grenville	British economist who passed the Currency and Sugar Act of 1764	22
11362769211	John Dickinson	colonist who wrote Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania which served as an early call for resistance	23
11362769212	Charles Townshend	William Pitt's successor who passed the Townshend Act of 1767	24
11362769213	Lord North	British politician who tried to compromise the Townshend acts to help the colonists	25
11362769214	Samuel Adams	Boston propagandist who was fiercely against the British by organizing committees of correspondence in Massachusetts	26
11362769215	Lord Dunmore	royal governor of Virginia who fought the Ohio Shawnees in Kentucky. The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore claimed Kentucky as his own.	27
11362769216	Thomas Paine	wrote Common Sense, which was a call for independence and a republican form of government	28
11362769217	Thomas Jefferson	main author of the Declaration of Independence who proclaimed a series of "self-evident" truths and established the defining political values of the new nation	29