Chapter 4- From Colonies to States

1. "No taxation w/o representation": The assertion that Great Britain had no right to tax the American colonies as long as they did not have their own representatives in the British Parliament.
2. Albany Plan of Union: plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed
to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned
down by the colonies and the Crown
3. Battle of Bunker Hill: First major battle of the Revolutions. It showed that the
Americans could hold their own, but the British were also not easy to defeat.
Ultimately, the Americans were forced to withdraw after running out of ammunition,
and Bunker Hill was in British hands. However, the British suffered more deaths.
4. Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge: Called the Southern Lexington and Concord
this battle on February 27, 1776 prevented loyalist forces from linking with regular
British troops to invade South Carolina.
5. Battle of Quebec: (1759) British victory over French forces on the outskirts of
Quebec. The surrender of Quebec marked the beginning of the end of French rule
in North America.
6. Boston Massacre 1770: The Massacre was the 1770, pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of the anger against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain
order and to enforce the Townshend Acts. The troops, constantly tormented by
irresponsible gangs, finally on March 5, 1770, fired into a rioting crowd and killed
five men: three on the spot, two of wounds later. The funeral of the victims was the
occasion for a great patriot demonstration. The British captain, Thomas Preston,
and his men were tried for murder, with Robert Treat Paine as prosecutor, John
Adams and Josiah Quincy as lawyers for the defense. Preston and six of his
men were acquitted; two others were found guilty of manslaughter, punished, and
discharged from the army.
7. Boston Tea Party 1773: American colonists calling themselves the Sons of
Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Native Americans, boarded three British ships and
dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.
8. Coercive Acts 1774 (Intolerable Acts): a series of laws passed by the British
in 1774 in an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party:
9. closed Boston harbor
10. initiated martial law
11. disallowed town meetings
12. strict enforcement of the Quartering Act
13. Committee of Correspondence: A 21 member committee responsible for
keeping the colonies and the rest of the world informed about the injustices Great
Britain was making on her colonies.
14. Common Sense: A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the
colonies had a right to be an independent nation
15. Currency Act 1764: British legislation which banned the production of paper
money in the colonies in an effort to combat the inflation caused by Virginia's
decision to get itself out of debt by issuing more paper money.
16. Daughters of Liberty: This organization supported the boycott of British
goods. They urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce other
goods that were previously available only from Britain. They believed that way, the
American colonies would become economically independent.
17. Declaration of Independence: the document recording the proclamation of
the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the
colonies from Great Britain
18. Edward Braddock: A British commander during the French and Indian War.
He attempted to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755. He was defeated by the French
and the Indians.
19. Edmund Andros: He was the royal governor of the Dominion of New England.
Colonists resented his enforcement of the Navigation Acts and the attempt to
abolish the colonial assembly.
20. First Continental Congress: September 1774, delegates from twelve
colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts
21. Fort Ticonderoga: patriots led by Ethan Allen surprise an outpost on Lake
Champlain and capture cannon for the Americans
22. Gaspee Incident: In June, 1772, the British customs ship ran around off the
colonial coast. When the British went ashore for help, colonials boarded the ship
and burned it. They were sent to Britain for trial. Colonial outrage led to the
widespread formation of Committees of Correspondence.
23. George Grenville: Became the Prime Minister of England in 1763; proposed
the Sugar & Stamp Acts to raise revenue in the colonies in order to defray the
expenses of the French & Indian War & to maintain Britain's expanded empire in
America.
24. George Washington: Commander of the Continental Army
25. Geroge III: King of England, blamed by the colonists (especially in the Declaration of Independence) for his actions and all of the laws he implemented.
26. Glorious Revolution 1688: The bloodless coup in 1688 in England when
James II (a Catholic) gave up the throne and his daughter Mary and her husband
William of Orange (of the Netherlands) - both Protestants - replaced James II to
reign jointly. No Catholic monarch has reigned in England since.
27. House of Burgesses: the first elected legislative assembly in the New World
established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, representative colony set up by
England to make laws and levy taxes but England could veto its legistlative acts.
28. John Locke: English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract"
in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in
which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to
life, liberty and property.
29. John Parker: Captain of the Lexington minutemen; leader at the Battle of
Lexington in April 1775, where the first shots of the American Revolution were
fired.
30. Lexington and Concord: April 8, 1775: Gage leads 700 soldiers to confiscate
colonial weapons and arrest Adam, and Hancock; April 19, 1775: 70 armed militia
face British at Lexington (shot heard around the world); British retreat to Boston,
suffer nearly 300 casualties along the way (concord)

* first battles of the revolutionary war


27. Louis XIV: This French king ruled for the longest time ever in Europe. He
issued several economic policies and costly wars. He was the prime example of
absolutism in France.
28. Loyalists: American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the
war for independence
29. mercantilism: An economic policy under which nations sought to increase
their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling
more goods than they bought
30. natural rights: the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the
right to life, liberty, and property
31. Navigation Acts 1651, 1660, 1663: British Parliamentary laws ordering that American colonies only trade within the British Empire, furthering the economic policy of mercantilism. These laws were loosely enforced at best.
32. Patrick Henry: a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who
spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
33. Paul Revere: Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news
of British troop movement.
34. Paxton Boys: They were a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian
hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks. They made an armed march on
Philadelphia in 1764. They protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the
Indians. Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina.
35. Pennsylvania Gazette: newspaper in which the "Join or Die" cartoon was
published by Benjamin Franklin
36. Pontiac's Rebellion: 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian
War, led by an Ottowa chief. They opposed British expansion into the western
Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when
Pontiac was killed.
37. Robert Walpole: Prime minister of Great Britain in the first half of the 1700s.
His position towards the colonies was salutary neglect.
38. Royal Proclamation of 1763: A proclamation to where the colonists couldn't
move and expand to the west of the Appalachian mountains. That was preserved
for the Native Americans.
39. salutary neglect: an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations
in its colonies in return for the colonies' continued economic loyalty
40. Samuel Adams: American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the
Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the
Declaration of Independence
41. Samuel de Champlain: French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a
settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)
42. Seven Year's War 1756-1763: global conflict between the European great
powers; the French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.
43. Sons of Liberty: A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.
44. Stamp Act 1765: This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or
seal, when they bought paper items.
45. Sugar Act 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.
46. The Act to Prevent Frauds and Abuses 1696: required royal governors to
enforce the Navigation Acts, allowed customs officials in America to use "writs of
assistance", and ordered that accused smugglers be tried in royal admiralty courts
47. Townshend Acts: A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was
placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
48. Treaty of Paris 1763: Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked
the French out of North America
49. virtual representation: British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for
all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members
50. Whig: an American colonist who supported the American Revolution
51. William Pitt: The Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War.
He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies, and this is
why England won the war.
52. Writ of Assistance: court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods

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