APUSH Period 3 Part 1

Flashcards covering key vocabulary, people, and events from the AP U.S. History Premium Prep notes, focusing on the period of conflict and American independence (1754-1800).

Scots-Irish

Protestant colonial settlers who emigrated from Ireland but were ethnically Scottish. They settled mainly in the Appalachians, from Pennsylvania to Georgia.

Pontiac's Rebellion (or Pontiac's Uprising)

Ottawa war chief Pontiac rallied a group of tribes in the Ohio Valley and attacked colonial outposts as a response to the English raising the price of goods and ceasing rent payments on western forts.

Paxton Boys

Group of Scots-Irish frontiersmen in Pennsylvania who murdered several members of the Susquehannock tribe in response to Pontiac's Rebellion.

Proclamation of 1763

Forbade settlement west of the rivers running through the Appalachians, agitating colonial settlers who regarded it as unwarranted British interference in colonial affairs.

Sugar Act of 1764

Established new duties and provisions aimed at deterring molasses smugglers, angering colonists due to stricter enforcement and trials in vice-admiralty courts.

Currency Act

Forbade the colonies to issue paper money, contributing to discontent alongside the Sugar Act and Proclamation of 1763.

Stamp Act of 1765

Tax specifically aimed at raising revenue, covering all legal documents and licenses, affecting a broad base, particularly lawyers, and goods produced within the colonies.

The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Pamphlet by James Otis that laid out the colonists' argument against the Stamp Act taxes and became a bestseller, arguing for either representation in Parliament or a greater degree of self-government for the colonies

Virtual Representation

Members of Parliament represented all British subjects regardless of who elected them

Virginia Stamp Act Resolves

Protested the Stamp Act tax and asserted the colonists' right to a large measure of self-government.

Declaratory Act

Asserted the British government's right to tax and legislate in all cases anywhere in the colonies.

Townshend Acts

Taxed goods imported directly from Britain, set aside tax for payment of tax collectors, created more vice-admiralty courts, suspended the New York legislature, and instituted writs of assistance.

Nonconsumption and Nonimportation

Boycotts of British goods, such as British linen and tea.

Massachusetts Circular Letter

Asked that all other assemblies protest the new measures in unison.

Albany Plan of Union

Provided for an intercolonial government and a system for collecting taxes for the colonies' defense.

French and Indian War

Name colonists called the war between the British and the French who had Native American allies.

Quartering Act of 1765

Required colonists to be responsible for the cost of feeding and housing British troops.

Boston Massacre

British soldiers fired on a crowd, killing five.

Committees of Correspondence

Trade ideas and inform one another of the political mood.

Boston Tea Party

Dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

Closed Boston Harbor to all but essential trade, tightened English control over the Massachusetts government and courts, and put British soldiers in civilian homes.