APUSH Period 3 Review

Corsive acts (Intolerable acts)

Acts against Massachuetts after Boston tea party

Shay’s Rebellion

Farmer uprising which exposed the weakness of the articles of confederation

Battle of Saratoga

American win that got the attention of France

Declaratory Act

British laws apply to colonies

Albany Plan of Union

1754 proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create a unified colonial government during the French and Indian War

Seven Years' War

1754-1763 conflict between Great Britain and France for control of territory in North America

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Agreement ending the Seven Years' War, effectively eliminating French territorial power in North America

Pontiac's Rebellion

1763 Native American uprising against British military expansion in the Great Lakes region

Proclamation of 1763

British royal decree prohibiting colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Sugar Act

1764 British tax on imported sugar and molasses intended to raise revenue to pay war debt

Stamp Act

1765 direct tax on printed materials in the colonies that sparked mass political opposition

Stamp Act Congress

1765 meeting of colonial delegates to protest taxation without parliamentary representation

Sons of Liberty

Organization of colonists formed to actively oppose British taxation policies and enforce boycotts

Declaratory Act

1766 law asserting that British Parliament had full authority to pass binding laws for the colonies in all cases

Townshend Acts

1767 import duties placed on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea brought into the American colonies

Boston Massacre

1770 confrontation in which British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing five colonists

Committees of Correspondence

Intercolonial communication system formed to share information and coordinate resistance efforts

Tea Act

1773 law granting the British East India Company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade

Boston Tea Party

1773 protest in which colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

1774 punitive laws passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party

First Continental Congress

1774 meeting of delegates in Philadelphia responding to the Coercive Acts by organizing boycotts

Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 1775 armed engagements between British troops and colonial minutemen that began the Revolutionary War

Second Continental Congress

1775 assembly that assumed governance of the colonies, created the Continental Army, and named George Washington commander

Common Sense

1776 influential pamphlet by Thomas Paine arguing that the colonies should seek complete independence from Britain

Declaration of Independence

July 1776 document drafted primarily by Thomas Jefferson formally announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain