american rev pt 1

Mercantilism

economic policy where nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

Navigation Acts

Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England.

Molasses Act of 1733

A British law that established a tax on imports of molasses, sugar, and rum from non-British colonies.

Great Awakening

Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

Jonathan Edwards

Preacher during the First Great Awakening; famous sermon was "Sinners in the hands of angry god"

Montesquieu

French political philosopher who advocated the separation of powers

John Locke

English philosopher who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

Rousseau

French philosopher who advocated the "social contract"

Salutary Neglect

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

French and Indian War

a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by Indian tribes) over the Ohio River Valley, Mississippi River, and Great Lakes.

Albany Plan of Union

plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes

Treaty of Paris 1763

Ended French and Indian War

Proclamation of 1763

law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

Pontiac's War

A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area

Sugar Act

Placed a tax on foreign sugar and certain luxuries.

Quartering Act

Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

Stamp Act

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

Sons of Liberty

secret society formed to oppose British policies

Daughters of Liberty

organization of colonial women formed to protest British policies

Townshend Acts

A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea

Boston Massacre

incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists

Boston Tea Party

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

Intolerable Acts

series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party

1st Continental Congress

in 1774, meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia (Georgia did not attend) in response to the Intolerable Act. Called for a boycott of British goods and formed a colonial militia.