Pageant 12th Edition Chapter 7 Review Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key concepts, acts, and historical figures from American Pageant Chapter 7.

Republicanism

The mid-eighteenth-century idea that a just society is one in which all citizens willingly subordinate their private, selfish interests to the common good, requiring a virtuous citizenry.

Radical Whigs

A group that feared arbitrary power and the monarch's use of patronage and bribes by the king's ministers.

Mercantilism

An economic system used by England to increase its wealth by having the colonies supply raw materials to the mother country and provide a guaranteed market for exports.

Navigation Acts

Laws first implemented in the 1650s to stop rival countries from trading with the American colonies.

Enumerated Products

Specific products, notably tobacco, that American merchants were required to ship exclusively to Britain under the Navigation Acts.

Paper Currency

Money printed by colonial legislatures when money became tight, which Parliament eventually prohibited them from doing.

Parliamentary Nullification

The authority of Parliament to nullify colonial laws if they interfered with the mercantilist system.

Salutary Neglect

The policy under which most laws passed prior to 1763 were loosely enforced in the colonies.

Theodore Roosevelt's Cause of the Revolution

The view that revolution broke out because Britain had failed to recognize an emerging nation.

Edmund Burke

British politician who warned: "Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world".

Ben Franklin

Founding father who described Britain in 1775 as "an old mother that peevish is grown".

Post-French and Indian War British Debt

The mounting problem of 140 million in debt faced by Britain following the French and Indian War.

Sugar Act of 1764

The first direct tax applied to the American colonists in 1764, which lowered the price of sugar.

George Grenville

British Exchequer who approved the tax of 1764, leading to taxes being named after him.

Quartering Act of 1765

Act passed in 1765 requiring colonial housing of soldiers, which later led to the creation of the 3rd Amendment to the US Constitution.

Stamp Act

A famous tax passed in 1765 that affected all classes of colonists.

Stamp Act Congress Rallying Cry

"No taxation without representation"

James Otis

Colonial figure known for the rallying cry "Taxation without representation is Tyranny".

Admiralty Courts

Courts hated by the colonists because no jury trials were allowed, which later provided a reason for passing the 6th Amendment to the US Constitution.