Mid-term 2nd Review Cards

Export

A product that is made and shipped to another country.

Smuggling

In the system of Mercantilism, obtaining goods illegally.

The Navigation Acts

England's series of laws to ensure that goods and services were being shipped on English ships, by English crews.

Customs Agents

People that England appointed to inspect all cargo and products shipped to the colonies.

Writs of Assistance

An English search warrant that could be used to search people's ships, their homes and their property.

Triangular Trade

A three-way system of trade between raw materials, finished products, and humans kidnapped into slavery.

Middle Passage

The journey from the western coast of Africa to the western Caribbean and the Americas.

Plantations

Large farm-like areas where those kidnapped into slavery were brought.

The Enlightenment

A philosophical movement in Europe that focused on understanding the world through reason rather than religion.

Natural Rights

According to Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, all men are entitled to these.

Merchant

A business person who bought and sold goods in the colonies for profit.

King George

The British King who angered the colonists.

George Grenville

The English Prime Minister who came up with the taxes for the colonists to pay.

Proclamation of 1763

The law in 1763 that said that the colonists could not cross the Appalachian Mountains.

Stamp Act of 1765

Required the colonists to pay a sales tax on all paper products.

Repeal

To take something away.

Townshend Acts of 1766

Put taxes on imported glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.

British East India Tea Company

The tea company that was given a Monopoly over the selling tea in the colonies.

Monopoly

When a company does not have any competition over the products they sell.

Sons of Liberty

The group that led the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor.

Intolerable Acts

The punishment laws that England passed for the colonists dumping tea into Boston harbor.

The First Continental Congress

The meeting of colonists to decide what to do about the Intolerable Acts in September of 1774.

Concord

The town where the colonists were hiding weapons against the British.

Lexington, Massachusetts

The location where British soldiers and colonists exchanged the first shots of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775.