British "Tyranny"
A tax on consumer goods in the colonies that was ultimately repealed.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The economic idea that countries must export more finished goods than they import
What is mercantilism?
Sneaking goods around British trade restrictions and customs.
What is smuggling?
The widespread resurgence of religious fervor that stressed a personal relationship to God.
What is the Great Awakening?
The journey taken by captured slaves from West Africa to America
What is the Middle Passage?
A tax on printed materials
What is the Stamp Act?
The exchange of people, raw materials, and finished goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is the triangle trade?
The British policy towards the colonies that essentially left them alone to govern themselves.
What is Salutary Neglect?
A social and philosophical movement that emphasized rationalism and natural laws.
What is the Enlightenment?
This group fought in the Revolution, despite not being citizens. After the war, many reconsidered their position about this group's standing.
Who were African Americans?
A north-south line that followed the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
A powerful native confederacy and early democracy that allied with the Britain in the French Indian War.
Who were the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)?
The destruction around $1 million (in todays money) worth of product in response to a portion of the Townshend Act.
What was the Boston Tea Party
Who is John Locke?
Only 15% of the wealth
An agreement signed by 200 merchants pledging not to buy British Goods
What is a nonimportation agreement (boycott)?
£133 million
How much dept did Britain have after the French and Indian War?
Battles caused by British troops marching from Boston to seize colonial weapons and arrest rebel leaders, which met armed, gurellia resistance from local American militiamen.
What were the battles of Lexington and Concord?
The specific model of Government our founding fathers sought to create.
What is a Republic?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant.
What presidents owned slaves?
Riot that, eventually, led to the repeal of the Townshend Acts.
What is the Boston Massacre?
England did this to pay off their war depts they incurred after the French and Indian war.
Why did England enforce taxes on the colonies?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A theory that says a government should be formed by the consent of the Governed
This group lost land and hope of maintaining their home territory after the War.
Who were the Americans?
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre, meant to sway public opinion, is an example of this.
What is propaganda?
The French & Indian War was partly fought over this river valley, where colonists wanted to expand.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Colonists "tarred and feathered" these British government officials.
Who were the tax collectors?
The colonies began to unite, and the leaders of each colony (except Georgia) met together for the first time at this event to condemn these acts
What is the First Continental Congress and the Coercive Acts?
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