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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
