Vocab 1
What was the Boston tea party? 🤔
Meaning
On December 16, 1776 116 Indian Americans disguised as British citizens to board a boat to dump 342 crates of tea into the Boston harbor
What was the Boston massacre of 1770? 🤔
Meaning
Seven british soldiers open fired into a crowd of protestor, killing five people, and injuring anothers
Who was John Locke? 🤔
An English philosopher who influenced the Enlightenment with his writings of the sovereignty and governance
What is an Autonomy? 🤔
A form of self-government
What is the Article of Confederation? 🤔
The first US constitution
Gave states more power
What was the Declaratory act of 1766? 🤔
Meaning
an Asserted parliament that could tax in all cases, whatsoever
What was the Townshed Act of 1767? 🤔
Meaning
A series of laws that placed new taxes on glass, lead, paint, and tea that existed in the colonies
What is the Enlightenment? 🤔
Meaning
A cultural and intellectual movement in the 1700s that emphasized science and rationalism
what’s a unicameral? 🤔
A 1-house legislature
The Republicans and the Domestic Republican
what was it about? 🤔
A political party with limited government, reduced taxes, and financial support in financial industries
What is the Sons & Daughters of liberty? 🤔
Meaning
this movement made tax agents scared, destroyed revenue stamps, and tarnished revenue affairs
What was the Intolerable Acts? 🤔
Meaning
The Intolerable Act consists of four separate legislative measure: the Boston Port Bill: the Government Bill: The Administration of Justice Act, with the Quartering act
Who were Loyalists? 🤔
a Colony during the American revolutionary period who supported the British Taxing policies
What is Blunker hill? 🤔
technically first official battle the British won that resulted in colonists being killed
What is the Battle of Saratoga in 1777? 🤔
The plan B of trying to cut off the NE colony which caused a war that France joined, causing the Brits to surrender
What was the sugar act? 🤔
Meaning
taxing of foreign sugar and caused stricter enforcement of the Navigation Ac, which prevented illegal smuggling
What was the Quatering Act of 1765? 🤔
Meaning
Colonists providing food and living expenses and ares for soldiers
What is a Virtual Representation? 🤔
A theory that members of the Parliament were obligated to defend the interests of British subjects and colonies alike and that colonists didn’t need colony representatives
What is the declaration of independence? 🤔
Ratified on Independence Da, Thomas Jefferson cut the basic rights of people
What were the affects of Valley Forge? 🤔
95% decline of trades in colonies, making money ultimately worthless
What was the Stamp Act? 🤔
Meaning
tax on most printed paper in the colonies to raise funds for the british military
What was the First Continental Congress? 🤔
Meaning
A representative government that consists of 12 of the 13 colonies created by unified front against the British Government
What is Salutary neglect? 🤔
The unofficial policy of the British crown where they avoided strict enforcement of parliamentary law in the colonies
What is Lexington? 🤔
The first battle
warned the British were coming
American forced to retreat back to their original territory
What is Shay’s rebellion? 🤔
Meaning
Massachusetts farmers form a rebellion against the poor economic conditions which puts down a militia and shows how the federal government was like