Chapter 5: The American Revolution Flashcards
virtual representation
theory that held that each member of Parliament represented the entire empire, not just his own district
writs of assistance
search warrants that allowed customs officials to search anywhere they chose for smuggled goods
Sugar Act
(1764) Parliament’s tax on refined sugar and many other colonial products
Committee of Correspondents
encouraged opposition to the Sugar and Currency Acts
Sons of Liberty
led protest processions, posted notices “Liberty, Property, and No Stamps;” enforced boycott of British imports
Regulators
groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies
Daughters of Liberty
women who spun and wove at home so as to not purchase British goods
Boston Massacre
clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, 3/15/1770, 5 colonists killed
Boston Tea Party
on December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped hundreds of chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773
Lord Dunmore
issued freedom to any slave who escaped his lines and bore arms for the King.
Common Sense
a pamphlet anonymously written by Thomas Paine that attached the English principles of hereditary rule and monarchical government.
Declaration of Independence
document adopted on July 4, 1776, that made the break with Britain official; drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress, including prinicpal writer Thomas Jefferson
Treaty of Paris
(1783) negotiation between America and Britain
A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed…
escaped African slaves who took up arms for the king of England would be freed
Adding to Congress’s formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence…
declared the U.S. independent of British rule.
British success in the Seven Years’ War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because…
the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.
Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s…
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar, Currency, and Stamp Acts
During the Seven Years’ War, Great Britain treated the colonists as allies, yet only a few years later…
the colonists were treated as subordinates again.
Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enagled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?
Expand westward.
T or F: In Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence, he berated the king regarding the continued inhumanity of the slave trade.
True
T or F: Some slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers during the Revolution.
True
South Carolina and Georgia were the two southern colonies that failed to take what action to help with the war?
Enroll free blacks and slaves to fight.
The Carolina “Regulators” of the mid-1760s were…
a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.
The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was…
Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown.
Thomas Paine’s January 1776 pamphlet ‘Common Sense’ argued that…
democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.
What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians…
enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans.
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
That Parliament had the power to pass laws for all the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?
Its members fought for both England and America.
When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by…
virtual representation.
Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the suppression of town meetings and local elections.
