Chapter 7 Vocab

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Republicanism

Question 2

Eighteenth-century British political commentators who agitated against political corruption and emphasized the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power

Answer 2

Radical Whigs

Question 3

Economic theory that closely linked a nation’s political and military power to its bullion reserves.

Answer 3

Mercantilism

Question 4

Duty on imported sugar from the West Indies. It was the first tax levied on the colonists by the crown and was lowered substantially in response to widespread protests

Answer 4

Sugar act

Question 5

Required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops.

Answer 5

Quartering Act

Question 6

Widely unpopular tax on an array of paper goods, repealed in 1766 after mass protests erupted across the colonies.

Answer 6

Stamp tax

Question 7

Used to try offenders for violating the various Navigation Acts passed by the crown after the French and Indian War.

Answer 7

Admiralty courts

Question 8

Assembly of delegates from nine colonies who met in New York City to draft a petition for the repeal of the Stamp Act.

Answer 8

Stamp Act Congress`

Question 9

Boycotts against British goods adopted in response to the Stamp Act and, later, the Townshend and Intolerable Acts.

Answer 9

Nonimportation agreements-

Question 10

Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements.

Answer 10

Sons of Liberty

Question 11

Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements.

Answer 11

Daughters of Liberty

Question 12

Passed alongside the repeal of the Stamp Act, it reaffirmed Parliament’s unqualified sovereignty over the North American colonies.

Answer 12

Declaratory Act

Question 13

External, or indirect, levies 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.

Answer 13

Townshend Acts

Question 14

Clash between unruly Bostonian protestors and locally-stationed British redcoats, who fired on the jeering crowd, killing or wounding eleven citizens.

Answer 14

Boston Massacre

Question 15

Local committees established across Massachusetts, and later in each of the thirteen colonies, to maintain colonial opposition to British policies through the exchange of letters and pamphlets.

Answer 15

Committees of correspondence

Question 16

• Rowdy protest against the British East India Company’s newly acquired monopoly on the tea trade. Colonists, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor, prompting harsh sanctions from the British Parliament.

Answer 16

Boston Tea Party

Question 17

Series of punitive measures passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, closing the Port of Boston, revoking a number of rights in the Massachusetts colonial charter, and expanding the Quartering Act to allow for the lodging of soldiers in private homes.

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“Intolerable Acts”-

Question 18

Allowed the French residents of Québec to retain their traditional political and religious institutions and extended the boundaries of the province southward to the Ohio River.

Answer 18

Quebec Acts

Question 19

Convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that convened in Philadelphia to craft a response to the Intolerable Acts.

Answer 19

First Continental Congress

Question 20

Non-importation agreement crafted during the First Continental Congress calling for the complete boycott of British goods.

Answer 20

The Association

Question 21

First battles of the Revolutionary War fought outside of Boston.

Answer 21

Lexington and Concord

Question 22

Encampment where George Washington’s poorly-equipped army spent a wretched, freezing winter.

Answer 22

Valley Forge

Question 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.

Answer 23

Camp followers