Vocab Flashcards
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Made a dramatic speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1765. “Virginia Resolves” were his resolutions for the colonies on taxes. No taxing unless by the Virginia House.
Patrick Henry
A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act in 1765. It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament; the first sign of colonial unity and organized resistance.
Stamp Act Congress
male and female organizations that enforced the nonimportation agreements, sometimes by coercive means
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
legislation that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops; disobeyed in New York and elsewhere.
Quartering Act
tax on tea and other products; colonists especially hated these taxes b/c its revenues would go to support British officials and judges in America; colonial resistance caused British troops to be stationed in Boston.
Townshend Acts
aroused intense American fears b/c it extended Catholic jurisdiction (guaranteeing free practice) and a non-jury judicial system into the western Ohio country (Canada).
Quebec Act
stubborn ruler, lustful for power, who prompted harsh ministers like Lord North.
George III
Parliament’s tax on refined sugar, related to Revenue Act, also cut Molasses Act duty in half.
Sugar Act
Parliament required that revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter, documents, dice, and playing cards; a congress met to formulate a response, and the act was repealed the following year.
Stamp Act
Lawyer and political leader who fought the writs of assistance and later became a member of the Massachusetts Assembly and a founding member of the Sons of Liberty.
James Otis
a declaration by the British Parliament, accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act, stated that Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament’s authority to make laws binding on the American colonies.
Declaratory Act
Philadelphia lawyer who protested the Townshend Acts in his Twelve Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer, arguing that Parliament might regulate commerce and collect duties, but it had no right to levy taxes for revenue, whether they were internal or external.
John Dickinson “Letters From a Farmer”
zealous defender of the common people’s rights and organizer of underground propaganda committees; architect of American Revolution (mainly by manipulation)
Samuel Adams
harsh measures of retaliation for a tea party, including the Boston Port Act closing that city’s harbor; most important action Continental Congress took to protest this was forming The Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods; prompted the summoning of the First Continental Congress.
Intolerable Acts
body led by John Adams that issued a Declaration of Rights and organized The Association to boycott all British goods.
First Continental Congress
underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel Adams, that sustained colonial resistance.
Committees of Correspondence
Throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the English government did not enforce those trade laws that most harmed the colonial economy. The purpose of it was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North America. The English ceased practicing it following British victory in the French and Indian War.
Salutary Neglect
Benjamin Franklin submitted it during the Fr. and Ind. War on 1754 gathering of colonial delegates in Albany, New York. The plan called for the colonies to unify in the face of French and Native American threats. The delegates approved the plan, but the colonies rejected it for fear of losing too much power. The Crown did not support the plan either, as it was wary of too much cooperation between the colonies.
Albany Plan of Union
After the French and Indian War, colonists began moving westward and settling on Indian land. This migration led to a rebellion in 1763, when a large number of Indian tribes banded together under the Ottawa chief Pontiac to keep the colonists from taking over their land. The Rebellion led to Britain’s Proclamation of 1763, which stated that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
issued of October 7, 1763 and was created to alleviate relations with natives after the French and Indian War and started that Americans were not permitted to passed the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
Fought between France and England, in North America, Europe, West Indies, Philippines, Africa, and on the Ocean. Officially declared in 1756.
Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)
was a British commander during the French and Indian War. He attempted to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755. He was defeated by the French and the Indians. At this battle, he was mortally wounded.
Edward Braddock
Virginian planter, held the rank of colonel in a militia before he became general. Excellent leader and strategist and fought many an uneven battle, presiding officer in the Philadelphia convention.
George Washington
Ended French and Indian War
Britain gained all of French Canada & all territory south of Canada & east of the Mississippi River.
France & Spain lost their West Indian colonies.
Britain gained Spanish Florida.
Spain gained French territory west of the Mississippi, including control of the port city of New Orleans.
Peace of Paris
