apush vocab 2 Flashcards
French and Indian War
(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.
Albany Congress/Albany plan of Union
a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the British colonies in British America: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
Benjamin Franklin
American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution. Poor Richard’s Almanack.
Peace (treaty) of Paris, 1763
ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native Americans who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War (1754–1763).
Proclamation of 1736/ Proclamation Line
prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.
virtual representation
a political theory that the members of an elected body, such as the British Parliament, represent the country or empire as a whole regardless of where individuals live.
Sugar Act, 1765
placed duties on foreign sugar and certain luxuries. Its chief purpose was to raise money for the crown, and a companion law also provided for stricter enforce-ment of the Navigation Acts to stop smuggling.
Vice Admiralty Courts
courts existed throughout the empire. They served one purpose only, to resolve disputes among merchants and seamen. At the end of the French and Indian War eleven such courts were in operation in British America.
Quartering Act, 1765
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, etc.
Stamp Act, 1765
required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency.
Patrick Henry
A Leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (17336-1799)
Stamp Act Congress
passed a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.
Sons of Liberty
a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government.
Declaratory Act, 1766
stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
Townshend Acts, 1767
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
writ of Assistance
a general license to search anywhere
John Dickenson/Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
counsels leaders on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean on the economic folly and unconstitutionality of new British revenue laws that ignore the rights of Englishmen living in the American Colonies.
Samuel Adams
Boston Massacre(1770)
a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
Committees of Correspondence
emergency provisional governments set up in the 13 American colonies in response to British policies leading up to the Revolutionary War
Tea Act, 1773
reinforced a tea tax in the American colonies. The act also allowed the British East India Company to have a monopoly on the tea trade there. This meant that the American colonists were not allowed to buy tea from any other source.
Boston Tea Party (1773)
an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea
Coercive Acts, 1774 (Intolerable Acts)
in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War
Quebec Act, 1774
intended to appease French Canadians and to gain their loyalty
