Chapter 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tea act | allowed the british east india company to ship tea tot the colonies without paying the taxes colonial tea merchants had to pay. |
| what did the tea act allow | the british east india company to sell its tea cheaply and drive other tea merchants out of busniess |
| tea act made colonists __________ | mad |
| Colonists dress up as natives and board several ship and dump cargoes of tea overboard. | Boston tea party |
| To punish colonists after boston tea party ________________________________ | COERCIVE ACTs are created. and intolebarle acts |
| COERCIVE ACTs/intolebarle acts | closing down harbor and government is put on milatary arrest. having british troops living with you |
| thomas paine | convinced americans that independence was the answer |
| thomas paine created | common sense |
| common sense is | a pamplet that convied the king that there should be indepence and seperation from britain |
| thomas pain cause | the declaration of independne to be created |
| stamp act | placed a tax on newspaper and other printed material |
| The stamp act did what for parliment | raise money |
| stamp act items had to have a stamp because | tos how that tax was payed |
| stamp act cause people to ___________ | boycott |
| ffebuary 1776 | parliment cancels stamp act |
| canceling the stamp act causes | declatory act -parliment has the right to tax and make decisions for the british colonies. only applied to imported goods |
| battle of seratoge | burgoyne vs american army |
| The battle of seratoge was americas first ____________ | victory |
| The coercive acts | closing the ports in boston until the leaders paided for the tea they dumped in the harbor |
| olive branch pettion | a pettion sent to king george 3 to repeal the intolebrale acts (losing the port) |
| subsitence farminig | producing enough for families with little to exchange or sell |
| what caused subsitence farming | long winters and thing rocky soil in new england . made large scale farming difficult |
| declaration of independence | a document declaring the us to be independent of the british crown |
| the treaty of paris | ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. |
| slavory | part of colonial economies |
| the treaty of paris was signed in __________ | September 3, 1783 |
| boston masacere happened | march 5 1770 |
| boston masacere | crowd of colonists harass soldiers soldier gets knocked down/shot colonists get killed |
| boston masacere led to | stronger boycotts against british repealing townshed acts but the one on tea. |
| Magna Cart | limited government; royal power was more limited, protected nobles from unlawful loss of life, libery and property. extended to more and more people as time progressed |
| english bill of rights | govermnt cannot tax without the conset fair and speedy trail, pettition the king without punishment |
| limited government | government listened to what colonists said people had freedom of speech government was not in all power one of the two principles |
| john locke | english philopsher who wrote that people were born with certain natural rights to life, liberty and property; that people formed government to protect these rights and that a government that interferes with these rights might rightfully be overthrown |
| proclamation of 1763 (before) | victory in 1763 from french and indian was. british took all of france's northern epmire |
| proclamation of 1763 (what is was) | prohibited colonists from moving west of the appilachin mountians. |
| proclamation of 1763 (after) | colonists saw this as limit of freedom. distrust with british |
| what did the proclamation of 1763 alow the british officers to control | settler movement and avoud a conflict with native americans |
| who used to control the middle colonies | dutch used to control |
| middle colonies include | ny, pennsylvaine, new jersey and delaware |
| in what year did the middle colonies come into english rule | 1600 |
| correspond | to communticate by letters |
| first and second contental congress | a meeting where 9 delegates represt american intrest and challenge britsh contol |
| in the first and second contental congress | the delegates drafted a statement of griveances calling for the reapeal od 13 acts of parliment passed in 1763. they declared that these laws voilated the colonists rights |
| allies | someone who is cooparating with eachother during war |
| allies of americans | were french |
| effects of the great awakening | new relgious groups empahsis on education beliefs grow that all people are equal even before god greater religious and political freedom makes americans more willing to challenge authority prior the american revolution |
| navagation acts of 1650s | required all european goofs boung tot the clonies through england first. taxes were paid before sent to other countires. this increased costs and shipping times |
| new england colonies | maine new hampshire massavhuset conneticut |
| rules of war | speed stealth and suprise |
| what does speed stealth and suprise mean | be quick, sneaky and do things they wont expect |
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