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| John Adams | Leading American in the run up to the Revolutionary War. He defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre...he was a leading man during the Rev War |
| Boston Massacre | 1770...Bostonians were throwing snowballs and insulting British soldiers who were guarduing a customs house...someone yelled fire, and five colonists were killed |
| Boston Tea Party | After the British tried to dump British East India Tea on the colonies, colonists dumped the tea into Boston Harbor |
| Boycott | The colonists refused to buy British goods...this was a successful tactic used after the Stamp Act and the Townshend Act...and also after the Coercive Acts |
| Coercive Acts | Passed in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts passed punitive measures against Boston and Massachusetts |
| Committees of Correspondence | Colonial spy networks that originated in Boston and fanned out to other colonies |
| 1st Continental Congress | Called after the Coercive Acts to direct the colonial response to these measures |
| 2nd Continental Congress | Made GW leader of the Continental Army and declared independence from Great Britain |
| Vice Admiralty Courts | Juryless courts that operated in British colonies...smugglers who violated the Sugar Act (and others) could be tried in these courts where a guilty verdict was more likely |
| Currency Act | This act saw Britain assume control over colonial currency, abolishing the colonial currency that some colonies had been printing in the 1750s and 1760s |
| Daughters of Liberty | Women who showed their Patriotism after the Townshend Acts by spinning cloth to encourage colonists to buy "homespun" clothes |
| Declaratory Act | After the British repealed the Stamp Act and Sugar Act, the British passed this law, which stated that it COULD pass any law it wanted to in order to regulate the colonies |
| Declaration of Independence | Written by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration states to the world the reasons WHY the US declared its independence from Great Britain |
| Declaration of Rights and Grievances | Sent to King George III by the 1st Continental Congress, this letter was a very English way of complaining to the king...it basically asked the British to turn the clock back to 1763 |
| Lord Dunmore's Proclamation | In 1775, things looked bleak for the British in Virginia. Lord Dumore called for more soldiers and issued this controversial proclamation that promised freedom to the slaves of rebels IF they fought for the British |
| Gaspee Incident | In 1772 this hated ship was burned by angry colonists...it ratcheted up the tension another notch |
| George Grenville | Parliamentary leader in the 1760s who believed that the colonists should pay their share of the French and Indian War debt |
| Homespun movement | A movement for colonists to buy only colonial spun cloth |
| Letters from a Farmer in PA | Written by John Dickinson, these letters argued that while Britain could regulate trade, it could NOT raise taxes in the colonies for purposes of revenue |
| Lexington and Concord | The shot heard arouind the world |
| Minutemen | Bostonians who were supposed to be ready quickly if the British should attack |
| Lord North | Parliamentary leader in the 1770s |
| Patriots | Colonists who fought against the British and favored independence |
| Quebec Act | Passed at the same time as the Coercive Acts, this act gave many freedoms to French Catholics. It also gave them land in the Ohio Country. Americans felt that this was a British conspiracy |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Said that the colonists could not move WEST of the Appalachians |
| Radical Whigs | Polticians in England that argued against Parliament's growing power...these folks influenced American Patriots |
| Republicanism | A political belief that makes the people sovereign and rejects inherited poltical power |
| Restraining Act | Passed by the British to force NY to adhere to the Quartering Act |
| Revenue Act | Passed in 1762, this marked the end of Salutary neglect...the british would now try to stop smuggling. Writs of Assistance could be used by British officials to search American ships |
| Rockingham | A conciliatory leader who repealed the Stamp and Sugar Acts |
| Salutary Neglect | The system where the British left the colonists alone |
| Sons of Liberty | Patriots who organized resistance (sometimes violent) to British customs officials |
| Stamp Act | Taxed printed goods...the first DIRECT tax on the colonists |
| Stamp Act Congress | Met in response to the Stamp Act...the Congress objected to internal taxes...it sent a petition to Great Britain |
| Sugar Act | Taxed sugar and molasses...the first revenue tax in the colonies...met wioth cry of "No taxation without representation" |
| Tea Act | Passed in 1773, this allowed the British East India Company NOT to pay the tea tax, so they could sell tea to the colonists on the cheap... |
| Tories | Loyalists during the American Revolution |
| Charles Townshend | This man believed the colonists needed to be put in their place and advocated taxes and the use of force to achieve this |
| Townshend Acts | Taxed lead, tea, paint and glass...an attempt to find "acceptable" taxes...these taxes also tried to find a source of revenue for Royal governors that was INDEPENDENT of colonial legislatures |
| Virtual Representation | The British argued that British politicians looked out for American interests in Parliament |
| Writs of Assistance | Documents that allowed British officials to search any colonial ship suspected of smuggling and seize cargoes |
