chapter 7 terms

Question 1

political theory of represntive gov based on popular sovereignty with strong emphasis on liberty/civic virtue. Influential

Answer 1

republicanism

Question 2

8th century British political commentators who agitated against political corruption- emphasized threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power. Their writing shaped American political thoughts and made colonies alert to encroachments

Answer 2

Radical whigs

Question 3

(1764) Duty on imported sugar from West Indies. First tax colonists by crown, lowered eventually

Answer 3

Sugar act

Question 4

Required colonies to provide food/quarters for British troops. Colonists didn’t like this

Answer 4

Quartering act (1765)

Question 5

Tax on paper goods, reapealed in 1766 after colony protests. “No taxation without representation”

Answer 5

Stamp act

Question 6

Used to try offenders of navigation acts that were passed by crown after French/Indian war. Colonies argued courts encroached their rights as Englishmen since they lacked injuries and placed burden of proof

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Admiralty court

Question 7

(1765) assembly of delegates from 9 colonies who meet in NYC to draft petition for repeal of stamp act

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Stamp act congress

Question 8

(1765- after) boycotts against British goods in response to stamp act and later, town shed/intolerable acts. Most effect form of protest against crown.

Answer 8

Nonimportation act

Question 9

Patriotic groups that played a central role agitating against the stamp act and enforcing importation agreement

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Sons of liberty

Question 10

(1766) Passed alongside the repeal of the stamp act, reaffirmed parliament’s unqualified sovereignty over North American colonies.

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Declaratory act

Question 11

(1767) levies on glass, white lead, paper, paint and tea the proceeds of which were used to pay colonial governors, who had previously been paid directly by colonial assemblies

Answer 11

Town shed acts

Question 12

(1770) clash between Boston protestors and British red coats who fired on a crowd

Answer 12

Boston Massacre

Question 13

(1772 and after) local committed established across mass, later to 13 colonies, to maintain colonial opposition to British policies through letters and pamphlets

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Committees of correspondence

Question 14

(1773) rowdy protest against British East India company’s newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade. Colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor

Answer 14

Boston tea party

Question 15

(1774) series of measures passed in retaliation for Boston tea party. Closed port of Boston, revoked rights in Mass, expanded quartering act. Colonists in response convended firet continental congress to boy cott British goods

Answer 15

Intolerable acts