APUSH Unit 3 Vocab GREEN

Seven Years’ War

a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763

George Washington

was the first President of the United States, and was among the nation’s Founding Fathers

Albany Plan of Union

a plan to create a united government for the Thirteen colonies at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.

Salutary neglect

Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries

Pontiac’s Rebellion

An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac

Proclamation of 1763

was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

Samuel Adams

was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts

Intolerable Acts

refer to a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party

George III

was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801

Whigs

a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. It pulled together former members of the National Republican and the Anti-Masonic Party

Sugar Act

also known as the American Revenue Act and was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764

Quartering Act

required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies

Stamp Act

required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped

Tea Act

The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies

Coercive Acts

known as the Intolerable Acts, a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

Enlightenment

a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

John Locke

an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Born in Geneva, his political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe

Thomas Paine

wrote the pamphlet Common Sense advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

John Adams

an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the first Vice President and second President of the United States

Patrick Henry

known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

First Continental Congress

a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia

Second Continental Congress

a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War

Olive Branch Petition

adopted on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, in a final attempt to avoid a full-scale war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America

Thomas Jefferson

was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809

Declaration of Independence

the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress and announced that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule

Paul Revere

he is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord

Bunker Hill

fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. It was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops

Battle of Saratoga

(September 19 and October 7, 1777) gave a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War