Ap Us History Ch. 7

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-British politcal party during the revolutionary era who distrusted the king and contributed to American suspicions
-criticized the king's corruption as a threat to liberty

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Radical Whigs

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-laws to ensure a favorable balance of trade for Britain in 1650
-roughly enforced until after F&I War
-US goods could only be shipped on British ships
-Ships from Europe to US had to first stop in Britain, hiking up shipping prices
-certain goods could only be shipped to Britain

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Navigation Laws of 1650

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-organization in Britain during the pre-revolutionary era that could void US laws
-rarely used, but hated none the less

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Privy Council

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-period of non-enforcement of British laws, particularly the Navigation laws, prior to the F&I war
-created a sense of independence, and anger when they were enforced suddenly

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Salutory neglect

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-British prime minister during pre-revolutionary era who suddenly began enforcing the Navigation laws after the F&I War
-Created the Sugar, Quartering, and Stamp Acts

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George Grenville

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-Courts in Britain that offenders of the Sugar and Stamp Acts would be tried in
-Guilty until proven innocent
-no jury

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admiralty courts

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-second attempt at intercolonial unity since the Albany Congress
-Organized to oppose the Stamp Act
-9/13 colonies showed up
-Wrote a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances"
-organized non-importation aggreements

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Stamp Act Congress

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-unofficial opposition to the increased regulation from Britain
-run by Samuel Adams

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Sons and Daughter of Liberty

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-Black former slave
-one of the first ones to die in the Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks

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-letter writing network during the pre-revolutionary era that was designed to stay informed
-organized by Samuel Adams

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Committees of Correspondance

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-part of Intolerable Acts
-shut down Boston Harbor
-revoked the Massachusetts charter

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Boston Port Act

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-act associated with the Intolerable Acts to benefit French-Canadians
-Accepted Catholicism
-French were allowed to have trial without jury as they were used to (we though foreshadowed the removal of the right for US)
-French allowed to stay in Ohio Valley, even though colonists fought for and won the war

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Quebec Act

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-third attempt at colonies meeting
-12/13 showed up
-did not want independence yet
-wrote another list of grievences

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First Continental Congress

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-two battles that started the American Revolution
-British officials were looking for Samuel Adams and John Hancock
-minutemen responded with action

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Lexington and Concord

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-famous French officer fighting for America during the Revolution

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Marquis de Lafayette

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-Prussian drillmaster who whipped the American soldiers into shape

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Baron von Steuben