US History Chapter 2 Vocab

VOCABULARY flashcards for US History Chapter 2 covering key figures, acts, and battles from the French and Indian War through the American Revolution.

French and India war

(1754-1763) war fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio valley area. The English won.

Benjamin Franpin

American intellectual, inventer, and politician. He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution.

Albany plan of Union

Ben Franklin's plan to unite the colonies under one government to defeat France

Treaty of paris (1763)

Ended the french and indian wer and effectively kicked the French out of North America.

King George III

King of England during the American Revolution

proclamation line of 1763

Stated that no colonists could settle in lands to the west Of the Appalachian Mantans made the cdanists very upset.

Stamp Act

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents newspapers, etc.

Taxation

The action of the taxing authority levying a tax

petition

A formal request for government action

Boycott

A refusal to buy or use goods and services

Stamp Act Congress

Group of colonists who protested the Stamp Act, saying the parliament couldn't tax without colorist' consent

Samuel Adams

Leader of the sons of liberty

Sons of liberty

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

Daughters of Liberty

organization of colonial wormen formed to protest British policies.

John Adams

America's first vice president and second president. Spenser of the American Revolution in massachusetts.

Tea act

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies- underming colonial tea merchants i led to Boston tea party

Boston tea party

protest against increased tea prices in which colenists dumped British tea into Boston harber.

Intolerable Acts

Series of lows passed in 1774 to punish for the boston tea party

Enlightenment

A movement that emphasized science and reases as guides to help see the world more clearly

Revolution

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in fover of a new system.

Militia

A grap of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

patriots

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until Prericen independence was Won.

Loyalists

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the wor for independence.

second continental Congress

political authority that directed the struggle for independence beggining in 1175

George Washington

1st president of the United States; commander-in-chief of the continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

Thomas paine

Author of common sense

Common sense

A pamphlet written by Thomas paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation.

Thomas Jefferson

Wrote the declaration of Independence

Declaration of Independence

Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United states as a free State.

Unalienable Rights

Basic rights of people that may not be taken away.

Grievances

Formal complaints

Despotism

The exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

Battle of Trenton

The Americans suprised the Hession troops guarding treaton and took most of them prisoner; the Americans won.

Battle of saratoga

American Victor over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution

Battle of Yorktown

1781 American Victory in Virginia that forced the British to Surrender.

Treaty of poric (1787)

Treaty between England and the colonies; Formally ended the American Revolution wor.