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| a system created by the first continental congress for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain. |
Continental Association |
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| Parliament, through Lord North, proposed that the colonies, instead of being taxed directly by Parliament, would tax themselves at Parliament's demand. North hoped to divide the American moderates |
Conciliatory Popositions |
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| angry residents of Rhode Island boarded British schooner Gaspee, set it afire, and sank it in the Narragansett Bay in oppositino of the Navigation Acts |
Gaspee Incident |
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| Each member of parliament represented the interests of the whole nation, no matter where he came from. |
"virtual" representation |
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| distributed power among the three elements of society - the monarch, the aristocracy, and the common people, ensuring that no individual or group could exercise authority unchecked by another. however, the king and his ministers still exercised corrupt and autocratic authority. |
english constitution |
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| one of the most influential Founding Fathers of America. delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, and played a leading role in persuading Congress to adopt the Declaration of Independence. Major negotiator of eventual peace treaty |
John Adams |
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| new taxes on various goods imported to the colonies from England - lead, paint, paper, and tea. |
townsend duties |
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| originally called Quartering Act of 1765 that required the colonists to provide quarters and supplies for the British troops in America. Colonists saw the law another assualt on their liberties |
Mutiny Act |
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| passed by parliament asserting authority over the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." Following Stamp Act. |
Declaratory Act |
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| organized in massachusetts with the help of samuel adams and became a source of power later on. group of men who decided to take the law into their own hands and protested english taxes and such in a violent manner |
sons of liberty |
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| farmers of the carolina upcountry who organized in opposition to the high taxes that local sheriffs collected. after failing to win redress of their grievances, they armed themselves and began resisting tax collections by force |
Regulators |
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| a band of people from western pennsylvania descended on philadelphia with demands for relief from colonial taxes and for money to help them defend themselves against Indians |
Paxton Boys |
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| 1764 - designed to eliminate the illegal sugar trade between the continental colonies and the French and Spanish West Indies. raised the duty on sugar while lowering the duty on molasses, further damaging the market for sugar grown in the colonies. also established new vice-admiralty courts in America to try accused smugglers |
The Sugar Act of 1764 |
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| established by the English government to prevent an escalation of the fighting that might threaten western trade. forbid settlers to advance beyond a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains |
Proclamation of 1763 |
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| British army officer known for his training reforms, but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canda and establishing British rule there. |
General James Wolfe |
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| English secretary of state, and future prime minister, who began to transform the war effort in America by bringing it for the first time fully under British control. |
William Pitt |
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| newly appointed commander in chief of the British army in America who failed miserably in a major effort in the summer of 1755 to retake the crucial site at the forks of the Ohio River where Washington had lost the battle at Fort Necessity. A french and Indian ambush a few miles from the fort left him dead and what remained of his forces in disarray |
General Edward Braddock |
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| named by colonists. An Anglo-Spanish conflict between Enland and France lining up on opposite sides of a territorial dispute between Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria |
King George's War |
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| ended Queen Anne's War in 1713, and gave England substantial areas of French territory in North America, including Acadia and Newfoundland. |
Treaty of Utrecht |
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| established in 1696 in London - a mere advisory body that had little role in any actual decisions considering the day-to-day administration of colonial affairs |
Board of Trade and Plantation |
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| philosopher who believed that colonies should be left alone |
Robert Walpole |
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