Chapter 5 - Towards Independence

Question 0

George Grenville

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British political leader who as a prime minister whom instigated the Stamp Act, which provoked rebellious activities in the American colonies.

Question 1

The Great War for Empire

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The French and Indian War

Question 2

Currency Act

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1764; banned the American colonies from treating paper money as legal tender.

Question 3

Sugar Act

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1764; raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.

Question 4

Vice-admiralty courts

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Jury less courts located in British colonies that were granted jurisdiction over legal matters related to maritime activities, such as disputes between merchants and seamen.

Question 5

The Stamp Act

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1756; exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents

Question 6

Virtual Representation

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The British response to the First Continental Congress in American colonies; the congress asked for representation in parliament in what is known as the olive branch petition and this is what they did.

Question 7

Quartering Act

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1765. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

Question 8

Sons of Liberty

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A formal underground organizations with recognized members and leaders.

Question 9

Declaratory Act of 1766

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Declaration that parliament had taxing authority in America and repealed the Stamp Act.

Question 10

Charles Townshend

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English politician for whom the Townshend Acts are named

Question 11

Lord North Compromises 1770

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They repealed the Townshend Acts and decided to lay off a little bit

Question 12

The American trade boycott

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Americans boycotted trade with Britain to protest their treatment.

Question 13

The Tea Act

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Gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company, so Americans could only buy tea from them.

Question 14

Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts

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Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, in 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British.

Question 15

Quebec Act

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1774, gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. Angered Protestant America because the Quebec Catholics now could practice freely.

Question 16

The First Continental Congress

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It was called in response to “The passage of the Coercive Acts” by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.

Question 17

Loyalist Americans

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American colonists who were loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War, mostly the upper class and those benefitted by the monarchy.

Question 18

Minutemen

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A member of class of American militiamen who volunteered to be ready for service at a minutes service.

Question 19

Second Continental Congress

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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.

Question 20

Common Sense

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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the thirteen colonies to declare and fight for independence from Britain.

Question 21

Olive Branch Petition

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The last ditch effort of American colonists to make peace with the British crown. The king refused to even listen to it.