APUSH Unit 3 Part 1 Vocab

Albany Plan of Union

plan for colonial union developed by Ben Franklin in 1754 to coordinate colonial defense against the French; not adopted

salutary neglect

British policy of exercising little direct control over colonies and allowing Navigation Acts to go unenforced

Pontiac's Rebellion

characterized by Indian attacks along colonial border from New York to Virginia in 1763; British troops sent to quell violence

Proclamation of 1763

issued by British; said colonists could not settle west of Appalachian Mts.; meant to prevent hostilities between colonists and Indians

Stamp Act

required stamps to be placed on most printed paper in colonies (legal docs, newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards); 1st direct tax on colonies

Townshend Acts

tax on tea, paper, glass, lead, painters’ colors; passed in 1767 to raise money to pay for British officials in colonies

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) of 1774

passed by the British in response to the Boston Tea Party

Battle of Saratoga

1777 battle that resulted in French entering War for Independence on side of Americans

Republican motherhood

idea that a woman's place was in the domestic sphere but that she was also responsible for educating children in citizenship

Paxton Boys

backcountry Pennsylvania farmers who ignored the Proclamation Line of 1763; dispersed by Ben Franklin

Patrick Henry

he said “no taxation without representation” in Virginia House of Burgesses in response to Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

this group claimed only elected Americans could approve taxes

Sons of Liberty

they called for American independence in the wake of the Stamp Act

Boston Massacre

resulted from a protest of the Townshend Acts

Tea Act

this was passed so the colonists would not buy the smuggled alternative at a cheaper price

popular sovereignty

Enlightened idea that government derives its "just powers from the consent of the governed”

laissez faire

Enlightened economic idea that the government should mostly stay out of economic affairs

Common Sense

convinced many Americans with rather simplistic ideas that independence was necessary

Dunmore's Proclamation

British offer of freedom to any enslaved person who left their Patriot owner to fight for the King

Battle of Yorktown

battle that resulted in the British surrender in the American Revolution

Pennsylvania Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery

forbade importation of slaves into the colony; freed children of enslaved mothers at age 28

Abigail Adams

urged her husband to "remember the ladies" at the Second Continental Congress