Ap Us History

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John Hancock

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Wealthy president of the Continental Congress and "King of the Smugglers"

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Lord North

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The British parliamentary government at the time of teh American REvolution

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Sam Adams

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Zealous defender of the common people's rights and organizer of underground propaganda committees

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Charles Townshend

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Minister whose clever attempt to impose import taxes nearly succeeded, but eventually brewed trouble for Britain

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John Adams

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led First Continental Congress

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Crispus Attucks

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Alleged leader of radical protesters killed in Boston Massacre

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mercantilism

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The basic economic and political theory by which 17 18th century European powers governed their overseas colonies

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nonimportation agreements

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the effective form of organized colonial resistance against Stamp Act, which made home spun clothing fashionable

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virtual representation

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British governmental theory that parliament spoike for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they didnt vote for its members

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Sons of Liberty

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male and femal organizations that enforce3d the nonimportation agreements, sometimes by coercive means

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Quebec Act

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French were guaranteed their catholic religion, permitted to retain many of their old customs and institutions, old boundaires of quebed were now extended southward all the way to the ohio river

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Navigation Acts

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The set of parliamentary laws, first passed in 1650, that restricted colonial trade and directed it to the benefit of Britain

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Declaratory Act

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reaffirmed parliaments right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever.

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First Continental Congress

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Body led by John Adams that issued a Declaration of Rights and organized the Association to Boycott all British goods

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Sugar Act

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first law ever passed by parliament to raise tax revenue in the colonies for the crown.... increased duty on foreign sugar imported from West Indies

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Townshend Acts

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light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea

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Quartering Act

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required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops; disobeyed in New York and elsewhere

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Boston Massacre

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1770. colonists vs. british soldiers

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The ASsociation

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Effective organization created by the first contenintal congress to provide a total unified boycott of all british goods

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Stamp ACt

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Legislation passed in 1765 but repealed the net year after colonial resistance made it impossible to enforce

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committees of correspondence

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underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel ADams, that sustained colonial resistance

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admiralty courts

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hated, british courts, in which juries weren't allowed and defendents were donsidered guilty until proven innocent

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Boston Tea Party

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Event organized by disguised "indians" to sabotage British support of a British East India Company monopoly

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Stamp Act Congress

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assemblage which brought together in New York City... drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and parliament to repeal the repugnant legislation

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Interolerable ACts

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in 1774, parliament passed a series of acts designed to chastise Boston in particular

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George Washington

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A wealthy Virginian of great character and leadership abilities who served his country without pay

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William Howe

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British general who chose to relax in New York and Philadelphia rather than march up the Hudson to fight

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Benedict ARnold

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Brillian American general who invaded Canada, foiled Burgoyne's invasion, and in 1780 betrayed his coutry

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John Burgoyne

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Blundering British general whose slow progress south from Canada eded in disaster at Saratoga

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Charles Cornwallis

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GEn. Greene defeated Cornwallis to clear Georgia and South Carolina of British troops

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Thomas Paine

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A radical British immigrant who put an end to American toasts to King George

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Richard Henry Lee

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Fiery Virgininan and author of the official resolution of July 2, 1776, formally authorizing th ecolonies independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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Author of an explanaotry indictment, signed on July 4, 1776, that accused George 3 of establishing a military dictatorship

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Marquis de Lafayette

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was a major general in the colonial army at age 19, wealthy young french nobleman

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John Jay

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thought paris was goign to turn against them as soona s they made the treaty... impulsive, deeply suspicious of Old World intrigue; gathered in paris to put together peace treaty

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John ADams

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flinty, vigilant for New England interests, met in paris to make peace treaty

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mercenaries

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professional soldier who serves ina forgein army for pay.. Hessians for British

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natural rights

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inheret nature of the world

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Patriots

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AMericans who want independence from England

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Second Continental Congress

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THe body that chose George Washington commander of the Continental Army

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Common Sense

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The inflammatory pamphlet that demanded independence and heaped score on the Royal Brute of Great Britain

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The Crisis

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pamphlets written by thomas paine talking about independence from england

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The Declaration of Independence

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THe document that provided a lengthy explanation and justification of Richared Henry lEE'S RESOLUTION THA TWAS PASSED BY cONGRESS ON jULY 2, 1776

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Loyalists

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Another name for American Tories(Americans who support Britain)

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Treaty of Paris of 1783

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the British formall recognized the indepencence of the US, and granted generous boundaries

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Lexington and Concord

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British won at Lexington, and lost at Concord; British mission was to seize stores of colonial gunpowder and bag rebel ringleaders

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Bunker Hill

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colonists seized a hill, British tried to overtake it and got slaughtered on the hill, but when gunpowder ran out, colonists were forced to retreat

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Trenton/ Princeton

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Washington recrossed Deleware River and he surprised and captured a thousand Hessians who were sleeping

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Saratoga

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Burgoyne was forced to surrender his entire command here in 1777 to AMerican general- horatio gates

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Yorktown

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WAshington marched 300 miles to NY where french, de Grasse, helped surround Cornwallis- forcing Britain to surrender

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fRENCH and Indian War

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competition between French and Egnlish colonists for land in the Ohio River valley

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Albany Congress

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unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly led to succcess by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry

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Proclamation of 1763

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British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion, limited american expanision to