Unit 1, Chapter 7

Question 1

Republicanism

Answer 1

Political theory of representative government, based on the principle of popular sovereignty with a strong emphasis on liberty and civic virtue oppose
-hierarchy and authoritarian

Question 2

Radical Whigs

Answer 2

18th Century British politician commentators who agitated against politician all corruption and emphasized the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

Economic theory that closely linked the nations politician and military power to its British reserves
-justified britains control over the colonies

Question 4

Sugar act

Answer 4

(1764) duty on Surgar from the west Indies

- first tax on colonists

Question 5

Quartering act

Answer 5

(1765) required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops

Question 6

Stamp act

Answer 6

(1765) widely unpopular tax on an array of paper goods, repealed in 1766 after protests of colonists

Question 7

Admiralty courts

Answer 7

Used to try offenders for violating the various navigation acts passed by the crown after the French and Indian war

Question 8

Stamp act congress

Answer 8

(1765) assembly of delegates from 9 colonies who met in New York to draft a petition for repeal of the stamp act

Question 9

Nonimportation agreements

Answer 9

Boycott against British goods adopted in response to the stamp act and later the Townsend and intolerable acts

Question 10

Sons of Liberty

Answer 10

Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the stamp act and enforcing nonimportation agreements

Question 11

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 11

Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the stamp act and enforcing nonimportation agreements

Question 12

Declaratory act

Answer 12

(1766) passed alongside the repeal of the stamp act, it reaffirmed Pearlman’s unqualified sovereignty over the north American colonies

Question 13

Townsend acts

Answer 13

(1767) eternal, or indirect levels 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
- created more colonial protests

Question 14

Boston massacre

Answer 14

(1770) clash between unruly Bostonian protestors and locally stationed British redcoats, who fired on the jeering crowd, killing or wounding 11 citizens

Question 15

Committees of correspondence

Answer 15

(1712 and after) local committees established across Massachusetts, and later in each of the 13 colonies to maintain colonial opposition to British policies through the exchange of letters and pamphlets

Question 16

Boston tea party

Answer 16

(1773) rowdy protests against British east India company’s newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade
- colonists disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor

Question 17

“Intolerable acts”

Answer 17

(1774) series of punitive measures passed in retaliation for the Boston tea party, closing the part of Boston revoking a number of rights in the Massachusetts colonial quarter, and expanding the quartering act to allow for the lodging of soldier in private homes

Question 18

Quebec act

Answer 18

(1774) allowed the French residents of Québec to retain their traditional political and religious institutions, and extend the boundaries of the province southward to the Ohio river

Question 19

First continental congress

Answer 19

(1774) convention of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that convened in Philadelphia to craft a response to the intolerable acts
- the association

Question 20

The association

Answer 20

(1744) non importation agreement crafted during the first continental congress calling for the complete boycott of British goods

Question 21

Lexington and cord

Answer 21

(April 1775) first battles of the revolutionary war

• fought outside of Boston
• colonial militia caused the British to retreat

Question 22

Valley forge

Answer 22

(1777-1778) encampment where George Washington poorly equipped army sent a wretched, freezing winter

• lacked stable supplies
• Pennsylvania
• small pox outbreak killed many

Question 23

Camp followers

Answer 23

Women and children who followed the continental army during the American Revolution, providing vital services such as cooking and sewing in return for rations

Question 24

“Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment”

Answer 24

(November 1775) proclamation promising freedom for enslaved blacks in Virginia who joined the British army