Chapter 7 Vocabulary Flashcards
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Republicanism
Stability of society and authority of government depended on virtue of citizenry. Opposed aristocracy and monarchy.
Radical Whigs
Warned citizens to be on guard against corruption and rebel against threats towards their liberties.
Mercantilism
Belief that wealth could be measured by amount of gold or silver in treasury. Expected colonies to provide for their mother country.
Sugar Act
First law passed to raise tax in the colonies. Increased tax on foreign sugar imported from West Indies.
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British troops.
Stamp Tax
Mandated the use of stamped paper to certify payment of tax on legal and commercial documents.
Admiralty Courts
A jeopardization of basic colonist rights in which a court did not allow a jury.
Stamp Act Congress
Meeting in New York where 27 delegates from 9 colonies met to discuss a statement of their rights and grievances against the king and Parliament legislation
Nonimportation Agreements
When homespun woolen garments became fashionable and the eating of lamb chops was discouraged. First time in common action that spontaneously United the American people.
Sons of Liberty
Group that took law into their own hands by enforcing nonimportation agreements, raiding houses of unpopular officials, and confiscating money.
Daughters of Liberty
Group that took law into their own hands by enforcing nonimportation agreements, raiding houses of unpopular officials, and confiscating money.
Declaratory Act
After repealing the Stamp Acts, Parliament enforces this stating that they still had control over the colonies.
Townshend Acts
A light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea that didn’t directly tax the colonists, but still angered colonists.
Boston Massacre
60 colonists taunting and provoking British soldiers by throwing snowballs causing the troops to open fire and wound or kill 11 citizens.
Committees of Correspondence
Organization who’s function was to spread the spirit of resistance by exchanging letters.
Boston Tea Party
100 Bostonians disguised as Indians boarded tea ships and dumped its contents into the Atlantic.
Intolerable Acts
Act that closed the tea stained harbor until damages were paid.
Quebec Act
Guaranteed the French religious tolerance and extended Quebec’s boundaries.
First Continental Congress
Meeting in Philadelphia to consider ways of addressing colonial grievances.
The Association
Called for the complete boycott of British goods.
Lexington and Concord
Battles that killed many and sparked the American Revolutionary War.
Valley Forge
Time where American soldiers were in food shortages and without clothing and shoes.
Camp Followers
Females that followed the American army, cooking and sewing for the troops in return for money and rations.
