APUSH Chapter 5 Vocabulary: Colonial Acts, Movements, and Independence

😇 = monday words. 💖 = tuesday words.

Sugar Act of 1764 😇

British law that decreased the duty on French molasses, making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law, and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.

Quartering Act of 1765 😇

A British law passed by Parliament that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.

Sons of Liberty 😇

Colonists who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms in the 1760s.

Natural rights 😇

The rights to life, liberty, and property as defined by John Locke.

Townshend Act of 1767 😇

British law that established new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters' colors imported into the colonies.

Committees of correspondence 😇

A communications network established among towns in the colonies to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.

Coercive Acts 😇

Four British acts meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.

Continental Association 😇

An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.

Minutemen 😇

Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.

Declaration of Independence 😇

A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.

Stamp Act of 1765 💖

British law imposing tax on all paper used in the colonies.

Stamp Act of Congress 💖

A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met to protest the loss of American 'rights and liberties'.

English common law 💖

The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.

Declaratory Act of 1766 💖

Law issued by Parliament to assert its right to legislate for its British colonies 'in all cases whatsoever.'

Nonimportation movement 💖

Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times in response to various British acts.

Tea Act of May 1773 💖

British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company.

Continental Congress 💖

September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.

Dunmore's War 💖

A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor against the Ohio Shawnees.

Second Continental Congress 💖

Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.