Vocab Unit 3 Flashcards
Albany Plan of Union
Placed the British North American colonies under a more centralized government
French and Indian War/7 years’
War provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ended with the Treaty of Paris which ultimately led to the American Revolution.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
A war between a large alliance of Native American nations and the British colonial army in the Ohio Country and around the Great Lakes.
The British Empire was forced to reconsider its policy toward Native Americans, ultimately recognizing Indigenous autonomy.
Proclamation of 1763
Prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War
Stamp Act Congress
Claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested no taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Helped organize colonist dissent and resistance to British policies. The boycotts implemented by the Sons and upheld by the Daughters forced the British to understand how serious the colonists’ grievances were.
Declaratory Act
Stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
Writs of Assistance
An order directing that a party convey, deliver, or turn over a deed, document, or right of ownership
Townshend Acts
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation. In response to new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports.
Boston Massacre
Marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly.
Committees of Correspondence
Establish a system of communication with other assemblies in the other colonies, educate the townspeople on their political rights, and obviously, rally support to the cause of American independence against British rule.
Intolerable Acts
Series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Quebec Act
Established the procedures of governance for the Province of Quebec. Great Britain acquired the territory from France under the 1763 Treaty of Paris. The Act defined the structure of the provincial government by creating a governor who was supported by a legislative council.
John Locke- social contract
Obligation to obey civil government under the social contract was conditional upon the protection of the natural rights of each person, including the right to private property. Sovereigns who violated these terms could be justifiably overthrown.
Thomas Paine- Common Sense
Case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. Paine relentlessly insisted that British rule was responsible for nearly every problem in colonial society.
First Continental Congress
Formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen.
Lexington and Concord
Marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence.
