Chapter 7 - The American Revolution and the War for Independence

Revenue

stamp must be bought + put on anything printed on paper.

Parliament

has right to tax "in all cases whatsoever.

Revenue

stamp must be bought + put on anything printed on paper.

Parliament

has right to tax "in all cases whatsoever.

mercantilist competition

War for Independence- Fought by many countries ( + revenge)

Townshend Duties

- Indirect tax (added costs + no reason why)

Sons of Liberty

- Disguised as Mohawk Indians + dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

Stamp Act

- Direct tax (paid at time of purchase → know price is higher + why)

Intolerable Acts

1774- to shut down actions in Boston.

John Adams

- Tried to acquit soldiers (fair trial)

Quebec Act

Passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763

Sugar Act

1764, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act

Stamp Act

An act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents

Sons of Liberty

A loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

Committees of Correspondence

A collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence

Declaratory Act

Stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain

Townshend Duties

Imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies

Quartering Act

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

Boycotts

A collective and organized ostracism applied in labor, economic, political, or social relations to protest practices that are regarded as unfair

Boston Massacre

A confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles

Boston Tea Party

Demonstration by citizens of Boston who raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor

Coercive Acts

A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party

Lexington and Concord

Battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge

Continental Congress

The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution

Common Sense

A 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies

Declaration of Independence

The document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain

Saratoga

A battle during the American Revolution; the British under Burgoyne were defeated

The Battle of King's Mountain

One of the few major battles of the Revolutionary War waged entirely between fellow countrymen

Yorktown

A historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution

Treaty of Paris

Signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and overall state of conflict between the two countries