Key Vocabulary
The process of establishing control over another territory and sending people to settle there
Colonization
Actions and policies that benefit the entire community rather than just individuals
Common Good
Tax on sugar and other goods; the first act to raise revenue from the colonies
Sugar Act (1764)
A secret organization of colonial patriots who organized protests
Sons of Liberty
Conflict between Britain and France over North American territory
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade restrictions and resource extraction
Mercantilism
The way a society organizes and distributes power, makes decisions, and governs its people
Political System
Required colonists to pay tax on printed materials
Stamp Act (1765)
Women who supported boycotts through making homemade goods
Daughters of Liberty
Colonial meeting to address British actions
First Continental Congress (1774)
British policy of imposing taxes on colonies without allowing them representation in Parliament
Taxation without representation
A system where power comes from the people, who have a voice in decision-making
Democratic Government
Required colonists to house and supply British soldiers
Quartering Act (1765)
Refusing to buy British goods as protest
Boycott
First military engagements of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain
Loyalists
Rights that all humans are born with (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness)
Natural Rights
taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
Townshend Acts (1767)
Making clothes at home instead of buying British textiles
Homespun Movement
Document formally declaring separation from Britain
Declaration of Independence (1776)
The power of a nation to govern itself independently
Sovereignty
British policy of loose enforcement of colonial rules before 1763
Salutary Neglect
Punitive laws passed after Boston Tea Party, including:Closing Boston Harbor, Restricting Massachusetts government, Allowing troops to be quartered in homes, and Moving trials to Britain
Intolerable Acts (1774)
Protest where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Ended Revolutionary War; Britain recognized American independence
Treaty of Paris (1783)