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Flashcards by Janet Hanney, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Janet Hanney
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| Question | Answer |
| colonies | areas under full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country |
| mercantilism | belief in the benefits of profitable trading |
| Navigation Acts | series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade |
| salutary neglect | voiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, contributed to the economic growth of England |
| cash crop | a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower |
| triangular trade | a multilateral system of trading where a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another |
| Enlightenment | the period of intellectual frenzy that led to the American Revolution |
| Great Awakening | impacted the English colonies with the idea of rationalism being emphasized and passion for religion had grown stale |
| Albany Plan of Union | plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government |
| "Join or Die" | political cartoon made by Benjamin Franklin that helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity |
| French and Indian War | war fought by French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, described as an Indian Reserve |
| writs of assistance | documents that allowed customs officials to enter any ship of building that they suspected might hold smuggled goods |
| Sugar Act | A tax put on sugar and molasses and other imported goods |
| Stamp Act | required revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents |
| Sons of Liberty | secret organization to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by British government |
| Boston Massacre | confrontation where British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston |
| Boston Tea Party | protest where angry colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor, Britain imposed taxation without representation |
| First Continental Congress | delegates from each of the 13 colonies, (except Georgia), met to organize colonial resistance to Coercive Acts |
| "shot heard ‘round the world” | British shot, opening shot to the Battle of Concord which started the Revolutionary War |
| Olive Branch Petition | final attempt by colonists to avoid going to war with Britain, colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and declared their rights as British citizens |
| Common Sense | book written by Thomas Paine, challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy |
| Declaration of Independence | The formal statement, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted July 4, 1776, by the Second Continental Congress, declaring the thirteen American colonies free and independent of Great Britain: there were 56 signers |
| Loyalists | American colonists who stayed loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War |
| Patriots | American colonists who rejected British rule during the Revolutionary War |
| republic/representative democracy | system of government where all citizens vote on representatives to pass laws for them |
| Articles of Confederation | the first written constitution of the United States |
| confederation | an organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league |
| Shays' Rebellion | series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties. Led by Daniel Shays in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. |
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