APUSH Chapter 6 - Key Terms and Definitions on Coach Boone's Teachings

George lll

King of England during the American Revolution

Sam Adams

Founder of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence.

John Hancock

Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress; His ship smuggled goods. first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.

George Greenville (1763)

British Prime Minister from 1763-1765. To obtain funds for Britain after the costly 7-Years War, in 1763 he ordered the Navy to enforce the unpopular Navigation Laws, and in 1764 he got Parliament to pass the Sugar Act

Quarting Act of 1765

act that stated that British soldiers had to move in with colonials. Colonists were forced to house them, stay in their home, and supply them

Sugar Act of 1764

An act that raised tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. It also increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies.

Stamp Act of 1765

required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items

Patrick Henry

"Give me Liberty or Give me Death" influential speech to rally American colonists to the cause of independence from British - he believed freedom was worth dying for

Virginia Resolves

In response to the 1765 Stamp Act, Patrick Henry persuaded the Virginia House of Burgesses to adopt several strongly worded resolutions that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies. Known as the Virginia Resolves, these resolutions persuaded many other colonial legislatures to adopt similar positions.

Declaratory Act

Act passed in 1766 after the repeal of the stamp act; stated that Parliament had authority over the the colonies and the right to tax and pass legislation "in all cases whatsoever."

Ebenezer Richardson

Tried to break up a protest but they followed him home and threw rocks at his house hitting his wife so he shot a warning shot and it hit Christopher Seider and killed him.

Christopher Seider

Kid shot two times by Ebenezer Richardson at a riot in Boston, 1770, Samuel Adams arranged a funeral for the boy, where over 2,000 people attended.

Crispus Attucks

The African-Native American man who was the first man to die in the Boston Massacre, also considered the first death in the Revolutionary War

Charlie Townshend

had a reputation of going out and partying and then going to work the next morning in the same clothes. He has a more gentle approach on taxing the colonists. Glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea are the things he passed acts to tax. The tax didn't show up at the register, it's already embedded in the price, but was unsucessful due to colonial uprisings

New York Suspending Act

Act passed in 1767 by Britain that shut down the colonial government of New York for not complying with the Quartering Act. Led to colonial anger.

Committees of Correspondence

Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies

John Adams

America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained."

Lord North

Prime Minister of England from 1770 to 1782. Although he repealed the Townshend Acts, he generally went along with King George III's repressive policies towards the colonies even though he personally considered them wrong. He hoped for an early peace during the Revolutionary War and resigned after Cornwallis' surrender in 1781.

Ben Franklin

American patriot, writer, printer, and inventor. During the Revolutionary War he persuaded the French to help the colonists.

Suffolk Resolves

The First Continental Congress endorsed Massachusetts's Suffolk Resolves, which declared that the colonies need not obey the 1773 Coercive Acts, since they infringed upon basic liberties.

General Thomas Gage

Commander in chief of British forces in North America, and was appointed governor of Massachusetts in 1774; to keep peace, he placed Boston under martial law; general in the battle of Lexington. Asked for more troops was denied. His was was also an american.

Paul Revere

American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)

Lord Dunmore

Royal governor of Virginia who issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army

Date of Boston Massacre

March 5, 1770

Date of Boston Tea Party

December 16, 1773

Date of Lexington and Concord

April 19, 1775