| A | B |
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| Writs of Assistance | general search warrants that allowed British authorities to search whatever they wanted for any reason.The British used these writs to board and search colonial ships as a way of enforcing the Navigation Acts |
| Proclamation of 1763 | issued by King George III , it forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mtns. and put the teriitroy under British military control |
| Quartering Act | required colonists to house and supply British soldiers stationed in North America |
| Stamp Act | taxed nearly all printed material by requiring that it bear a government stamp |
| Stamp Act Congress | a delegation of colonists that met to protest the Stamp Act. James Otis, one of its leaders, protest the tax proclaiming "No taxation without representation!: It led to a boycott that eventually helped lead to the act being repealed. |
| Sons of Liberty | A group which took it upon itself to enforce colonial boycotts of British goods and used violence and intimidation to prevent the implementation of British laws. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Groups deidcated to organizing colonial resistance against the Crown. |
| Coercive /Intolerable Acts | Laws passed in response to the Boston Tea Party where the British closed Bostn Harbor, placed a military governor over Mass. and expanded the Canadian border, thereby taking land away from certain colonies. |
| First Great Awakening | A religious movement that featured passionate preaching from evangelists who believed that many in the colonies had forsaken God and called people back to serious Christian commitment. |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Shay's Rebellion | Rebellion led by a Mass,. farmer to protest taxes and falling farm prices.Without an adequate national govt. , Mass was left to handle the protest itself. It proved the need for a strong central govt. |
| right wing | republicans |
| left wing | democrats |
| legislative branch | make laws |
| executive branch | enforce laws |
| judicial | interprets laws |
| popular sovereignty | serving the will of the people |
| liberals | tend to favor a more active government. advocate government programs |
