APUSH Ch 4 Vocabulary

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Admiralty Courts

Any tribunal with jurisdiction over maritime law cases

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Albany Plan

A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government

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Benjamin Franklin

A printer, publisher, author, inventor, scientist, and diplomat

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Boston Massacre

A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired and killed several people

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Boston Tea Party

A political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773 in which the colonists threw hundreds of boxes of tea in the sea

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Charles Townshend

A British chancellor of the Exchequer who 'fueled the flame for the American Revolution'

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Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonies of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party

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Committees of Correspondence

Emergency provisional government set up in the 13 colonies in response to British policies leading to the Revolutionary War

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Creoles

A person of mixed European and Black descent

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Currency Act

Acts issued by the British Parliament that regulated paper money issued by the colonies in British America

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Daughters of Liberty

Protested the Stamp Act and Townshend Act through aiding the Sons of Liberty in Boycotts and movement prior to the Revolutionary War

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First Continental Congress

Convention declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen

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George Grenville

English Politician created the Sugar Act of 1764 and Stamp Act of 1765, policy of taxing the American colonies

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Imperial Authority

Measure of how many of the Empire's home provinces are occupied by fractions belonging to it

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Impressment

Enforcement of military or naval service on able-bodied but unwilling men through crude and violent methods

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Iroquois Confederacy

Made up of five tribes, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Seneca originating from New York

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John Adams

American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801

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Lord North

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782

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Mercy Otis Warren

Published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution

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Mutiny Act

Restrained the monarch's control over military forces in England by restricting the use of martial law

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Patrick Henry

American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention and a Founding Father

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Paxton Boys

A band of people from eastern Pennsylvania that demanded relief from colonial taxes and for help to defend themselves against Native Americans

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Pontiac's Rebellion

Violence between different Native American tribes against European colonization in America

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Proclamation of 1763

Issued by King George III that prevented the colonists from moving inland

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Quebec Act

Set procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec

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Samuel Adams

American statesman, political philosopher, and a founding father of the United States

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Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

A global war involving most European powers. Fought primarily in Europe and the Americas

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Sons of Liberty

Well organized Patriot paramilitary group that was established to undermine British rule in the Americas

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Stamp Act

Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards

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Stamp Act Congress

Sought the unified strategy against newly imposed taxes of Congress

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Sugar Act

Provided for a strongly enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources

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Tea Act

A law in 1773 giving all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India Tea Company

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Townshend Duties

A series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies

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Virginia Resolves

Resolved, that by two royal charters, granted by King James I, the colonists aforesaid are declared entitled to all liberties, privileges, and immunities

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William Pitt

British statesman, twice virtual prime minister who secured the transformation of his country into an imperial power