Vocab, Docs, and People for AH Test U3

Proclamation of 1763

A boundary line along the Appalachian mountains, imposed by Parliament to prevent colonists from moving into Indian territory; ended solitary neglect! It was the beginning of hostile relations between the crown and the colonists

Quartering act

A law passed by parliament that forced the colonists to provide housing food, etc., for soldiers. Many British soldiers were stationed in New York; colonists in New York refused to pay for the troops, so Great Britain suspends New York representative assembly.

Sugar act

A tax on imported sugar and molasses from the West Indies. This act also included laws to stop smuggling.

King George ||| believed that the sugar act would have colonists pay for the French and Indian war. colonist responded by smuggling just as they didn’t respond to all other navigation acts.

1. The King’s message to the colonists was that salutary neglect is over

2. The first smuggler caught by the British would be hanged

Stamp act

A direct tax on all colonial business, official docs, licenses, and newspapers, imposed on colonists without their consent

Townshend act

Parliament suspended New York assembly until the quartering act was paid; levied on building material such as lumber, nails, paint, glass, etc.

Boston massacre

A violent protest that resulted in death of five colonists. The sons of liberty used propaganda to turn this into an event that would Increase anti-British feelings

Boston tea party

The protest was organized by the sons of liberty and reaction to the tea act. Colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbour in protest; provoked parliament to pass the coercive acts.

Coersive acts/intolerable acts

Punishment for the Boston tea party.

1. closed the part of Boston to all trade until Boston paid back to Great Britain for the ruined tea.

2. Reinstated the quartering act

3. Required public officials to be appointed by Royal Governors

First continental Congress

Delegates agreed to boycott British goods until the act were repealed; they agreed to train, malicious in stock power weapons, if tensions escalated

Propaganda

Info, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to publicize a particular political point of view (persuasion)

Boycott

Colonists’ refusal to trade with or purchase English goods

Writs of assistance

search warrants that allowed British officers and tax collectors to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods

civil disobedience

refusal to obey laws or pay taxes in a peaceful manner

Salutary neglect

Britain’s hands off policy towards the colonies. It encourage self government and allow the colonies to prosper as they expanded trade.

common sense

Anti-British pamphlet persuading calmness to join the cause for independence

unalienable rights

John Locke’s philosophy about government is that natural rights are inherent to all people and that governments should protect them. Unalienable rights are the rights to liberty life and property.

treaty of Paris of 1763

Ended the French and Indian war; French ceded Canada, and land east of the Mississippi river to England; Spain received the part of New Orleans and all land west of the Mississippi river

Thomas Jefferson

writer of the Declaration of Independence; he was influenced by John Locke, and included the term inalienable rights, which he wrote as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

George Washington

Colonel in the colonial militia in the French and Indian war; appointed commander in chief of the confidential army of the second continental Congress

Samuel Adams

founder of sons Liberty; organize the Boston tea party; member of the continental Congress

Patrick Henry

Virginia delicate at the Continental Congress, who famously declared “give me liberty or give me death!”

King George |||

King of Great Britain during the American Revolution; monarch credited with losing the American colonies after revolutionary war; King George ||| described George Washington as “the greatest man in the world” for resigning his commission

sons of liberty

A secret society formed to organize peaceful, and sometimes violent protests, including boycotts against the British

Thomas Paine

writer of the anti-British pamphlet, “common sense”

John Adams

A Boston lawyer who defended the British soldiers at the Boston massacre, believing they deserved fair trial; also appointed to the committee to help with the declaration of independence

mercy Otis Warren

Wrote pamphlets for the committees of correspondence to persuade colonists to boycott British goods; Also in the daughters of liberty

Benjamin Franklin

Proposed the Albany plan of union. This plan encouraged all 13 colonies to form one government and form an army against the French; not everyone wanted to give up their power.

Crispus Attucks

The first person killed at the Boston massacre