HP 3 Vocab (V2.) Flashcards
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Albany Plan
What: The Albany Plan was a plan to place the British North American Colonies under a more centralized government.
Why: The Albany Plan was significant because it was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
Boston Tea Party
What: The Boston Tea Party was a protest that went against the British government’s tax on tea. It is mostly known as “no taxation without representation.” They sailed ships out onto the Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water. The British government saw this as treason and didn’t take it lightly.
Why: The Boston Tea Party was significant because 340 chests of tea were destroyed that night during December 16, 1773. It was one of the key events that led to the American Revolutionary War, and eventually, American Independence.
Coercive Acts
What: The Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were a series of 4 laws passed down by the British Parliament due to the acts of the Boston Tea Party. These four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
Why: The Coercive Acts was significant because it brought the colonies closer together. They unified the English Colonies against England. It helped pave the way for more further resistance and even the American Revolution.
Currency Act
What: The Currency Act is just one of several acts that the British Parliament of Great Britain has passed against the Colonies. It regulated the paper money issues they had and was sought out to help protect the British merchants and creditors from being paid in colonial currency. This led to the probation of printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures.
Why: The Currency Act was significant because it made the colonist unable to pay any debts they had to Britain with the cheaper and local currency, they had. Overall, this made Britain more wealthy and prevented them getting paid with the money printed by the colonists.
First Continental Congress
What: The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from 12 out of 13 colonies (not the province of Georgia). This meeting was met on September 5th, 1774 at Carpentar’s Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
They want to plan on boycotting different British Goods unless England removes the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts).
Why: The First Continental Congress was significant because it was used a response to the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts). It was one of the main links that will eventually lead to the American revolution. It can be seen as one of the first governments of the soon to be, United States.
Iroquois Confederacy
What: The Iroquois Confederacy was a confederation of five (soon to be six), Native Tribes located in the New York region. These five tribes were the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Senecas.
Why: The Iroquois Confederacy was significant because it played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and the British for supremacy in the North Americas.
Proclamation Act Of 1763
What: The Proclamation Act of 1763 was a boundary created by the British that marked between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River (Eastern Continental Divide). On October 7th, 1763, this line prohibited Anglo-Americans (an American born in England or of English ancestry) colonists from settling on lands that the French acquired prior to the French and Indian War.
Why: The Proclamation Act of 1763 was significant because it helped prevent further conflicts between the Native Americans and the settlers.
Sons of Liberty
What: The Sons of Liberty was a group of men that were established in order to undermine the British in their rule of Colonial America. (Influential in organizing the Boston Tea party). They used civil disobedience, threats, and violence to help intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government.
Why: The Sons of Liberty were significant because they helped rally support when it came to colonial resistance with the use of petitions, assemblies, boycotts, violence, and propaganda.
Stamp Act
What: The Stamp Act was a tax placed upon a stamp that was used on various papers, documents, and even playing cards (etc.) in order for the colonists to pay taxes whenever they had to use the paper they printed. This was imposed from the British government and did not have the approval of the colonial legislatures.
Why: The Stamp Act was significant because it was parliament’s first direct tax on the American colonies. It was enacted in order to raise money for Great Britain.
Sugar Act
What: The Sugar Act was a tax that was placed upon numerous foreign products including sugar, molasses, and coffee. It was enacted in order to end the smuggling of goods from the French and West Indies.
Why: The Sugar Act was significant because it showed another way of “taxation without representation”. It was just another way to provide increased revenue and income to the British empire when it came to the French and Indian War.
Townshend Duties
What: The Townshend Duties (Act) was another tax that added on to all the original taxes, basically promotion non importation, such as adding it to glass, lead, paint, and so on.
Why: The Townshend Duties (Act) was significant because it showed another way of “taxation without representation”. It was just another way to provide increased revenue and income to the British empire when it came to the French and Indian War. Again, it discouraged the purchase of goods from Great Britain within the colonies.
Tea Act
What: The Tea Act was a type of control that was issued by Parliament for the British East India Company. It allowed this company to control all of the trade and delivery of any tea being distributed. At this time, they also distributed tax on teas as well, allowing money to be given to the Government.
Why: The Tea Act was significant because it showed another way of “taxation without representation”. It was just another way to provide increased revenue and income to the British empire when it came to the French and Indian War. It financially helped the British East India Company and revived it from washing out.
Articles of Confederation
What: The Articles of Confederation was a written document that was an agreement among the original 13 Colonies (States) that helped serve as the nations first official frame of government. It showed how they declared independence from Great Britain.
Why: The Articles of Confederation was significant because it was the first official frame of government. It helped unify the 13 Colonies (States) and officially say that they are breaking up with Great Britain.
Common Sense
What: Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776. He used passion and persuasion in order to convince all 13 Colonies (States) to become independent. “Those plain, self-evident truths or conventional wisdom that one needed no sophistication to grasp and no proof to accept precisely because they accorded so well with the basic (Common Sense)…”
Why: Common Sense was significant because it helped lean and sway the 13 Colonies (States) into independence and coming away from Great Britain as a whole.
John Locke
What: John Locke was an English Philosopher and Physician who was known as an influence in the Enlightenment (an Enlightenment Thinker). He believed that all persons were given Natural Rights, Liberty, and Prosperity. He also believed in if rulers can not follow or obey these Natural Rights, they can be removed by the people, by force if necessary (overthrowing).
Why: John Locke was significant because he helped influence the U.S. Declaration of Independence. He helped shape legislative power and give rights to those around him.
