Seven Years War
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War
An eighteenth-century philosophical and intellectual movement which prized reason and challenged traditional notions of reflexive obedience to the Church and to monarchy.
Enlightenment
Taxes on sweeteners to pay off debt from the French Indian War
The Sugar Act of 1764
A 1773 law that actually lowered the price of tea, but colonists were now wary of any British attempt to collect revenue.
Tea Act
Organized in 1774 as a response to the Intolerable Acts, colonial leaders managed to urge their colonies to expand military reserves and organize boycotts of British goods in the meantime.
First Continental Congress
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
Salutary neglect
It is the idea that a government’s power should be divided into multiple branches that balance and check each other advocated by Montesquieu.
Separation of Powers
A 1765 act of Parliament that required colonial citizens to provide room and board for British soldiers stationed in America.
Quartering Act
In protest of the Tea Act, Bostonians dressed as American Indians boarded British merchant ship and dumped their tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
An anti-colonial revolt (1765–1773) where the Thirteen Colonies threw off the yoke of the British Empire and established the United States of America.
American Revolution
A land surveyor from Virginia, he led colonial militia as an officer in the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington
A pamphlet by Thomas Paine that used Enlightenment philosophy to argue that it would be contrary to common sense to allow British injustices to continue.
Common Sense
A group of Patriot activists who intimidated tax collectors by attacking their homes, burning them in effigy, and even tarring and feathering them.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
A colonial term for a number of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
King of Great Britain and Ireland. He reigned from 1760 to 1820. Dismissed attempts by the Second Continental Congress to peacefully resolve their conflict.
King George III
King George III barred American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
contained in the Declaration, it states that the people must obey the govt's decrees so long as the govt protects their natural rights
Social compact/contract theory
A revenue plan passed by Parliament in 1767. It imposed harsher taxes on the purveyors of imported goods such as glass, paper, and tea.
Townshend Acts
What did most colonist want at the First Continental Congress?
Peace with Britain
A July 1775 statement by the Continental Congress that reasserted colonial loyalty to King George III and asked him to intervene with Parliament on the colonies’ behalf.
A proposal by the Albany Congress, under the guidance of Benjamin Franklin, during the French and Indian War that called for a confederation of colonies
Albany Plan
A British philosopher whose theory of natural rights challenged the absolute and divine rule of kings and queens by asserting that all men should be ruled by natural laws, and that sovereignty was derived from the will of those governed.
John Locke
Acts passed by Parliament in March 1766 that stated the British government had complete legislative power over the colonies.
Declaratory Acts
A means by which Patriots could circulate letters of protest against British policies. It functioned as a kind of shadow opposition government in the runup to the American Revolutionary War.
Committees of Correspondence
An assembly of delegates from across the Thirteen colonies (1775–1781). It passed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
Second Continental Congress