Chapter 5

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Board of Trade

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Agency established in 1696 by the British government to improve the management of the colonies.

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Committees of Correspondence

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Communications network set up in 1772 to state the rights of colonists and to keep colonists informed of British activities.

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faction

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Organized political interest group. The Revolutionary generation feared that factions would corrupt republican government and undermine public virtue.

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public virtue

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The willingness of the people to sacrifice their own self-interest for the good of the whole. The Revolutionary generation relied on this self-regulatory behavior to maintain public order in the absence of powerful government.

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Regulators

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Farmers from western North Carolina who, in the 1760s and 1770s, rebelled against the existing political and social power structure that was dominated by eastern planter interests.

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revolutionary republicanism

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Ideology that emphasized the dangers of government by arguing that only by controlling power and corruption could liberty be preserved. It was the ideology colonists used to justify their declaration of independence from Britain.

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Seven Years’ War

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Fourth of the wars for empire between France and England, which lasted from 1756 to 1763 and resulted in the English gaining control of the eastern half of North America.

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Sons of Liberty

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Groups, composed mostly of artisans, shopkeepers, and ordinary citizens, who engaged in mob violence and crowd action to protest British policies.

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Stamp Act Congress

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Convention of delegates from nine colonies held in October 1765 to protest British tax policies

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First Continental Congress

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meets in Philadelphia