APUSH Ch 4 Vocabulary

Admiralty Courts

Any tribunal with jurisdiction over maritime law cases

Albany Plan

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Charles Townshend

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

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

Committees of Correspondence

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

Creoles

A person of mixed European and Black descent

Currency Act

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

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

First Continental Congress

Convention declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen

George Grenville

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

Imperial Authority

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

Impressment

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

Iroquois Confederacy

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

John Adams

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

Lord North

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782

Mercy Otis Warren

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

Mutiny Act

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

Patrick Henry

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

Paxton Boys

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

Pontiac's Rebellion

Violence between different Native American tribes against European colonization in America

Proclamation of 1763

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

Quebec Act

Set procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec

Samuel Adams

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

Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

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

Sons of Liberty

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

Stamp Act

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

Stamp Act Congress

Sought the unified strategy against newly imposed taxes of Congress

Sugar Act

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

Tea Act

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

Townshend Duties

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

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

William Pitt

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