Key Vocabulary
What is the Colonization?
The process of establishing control over another territory and sending people to settle there
What is the Political System?
Is the way a society organizes and distributes power, makes decisions, and governs its people.
What is the Sugar Act (1764)?
Tax on sugar and other goods; first act to raise revenue from colonies.
What is the French and Indian War (1754-1763)?
Is a Conflict between Britain and France over North American territory.
Who are the Sons of Liberty
They are a Secret organization of colonial patriots who organized protests
What is Mercantilism?
Is the economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade restrictions and resource extraction.
What is the Democratic Government?
Is a system where power comes from the people, who have a voice in decision-making.
What is the Stamp Act (1765)?
Required colonists to pay tax on printed materials.
What is the Boston Tea Party (1773)?
Colonial protest where tea was thrown into Boston Harbor.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
They are women who supported boycotts through making homemade goods.
What means Taxation without representation?
It means that British policy of impose taxes on colonies without allowing them representation in Parliament.
What is a Authoritarian Government?
Is a system where power is concentrated in the hands of a few leaders who control without citizen input.
What is the Quartering Act (1765)?
Required colonists to house and supply British soldiers
What is the First Continental Congress (1774)?
Is a Colonial meeting to address British actions
What is the Boston Tea Party?
It is a protest where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
Who are the Patriots?
Patriots are Colonists who supported independence from Great Britain.
What are the Natural Rights?
Rights that all humans are born with (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness).
What is the Townshend Acts (1767)?
Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
What is the Lexington and Concord (1775)?
This is when the first military engagements of Revolutionary War.
What is the Homespun Movement?
Is making clothes at home instead of buying British textiles
What is the Continental Congress?
Is a Representative body formed by colonies to coordinate their resistance to British rule.
What is the Consent of the Governed?
Is the idea that government's power comes from the agreement of the people being governed.
What is the Tea Act (1773)?
Gave British East India Company monopoly on tea sales.
Declaration of Independence (1776)?
Is the document formally declaring separation from Britain
what is the Boycott?
Is refusing to buy British goods as protest.