Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Hancock | Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress; first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. |
| Lord North | Prime Minister of England whom repealed the Townshend Acts. Resigned after Cornwallis' surrender in 1781. |
| George Grenville | England Prime Minister who introduced the stamp and sugar acts. |
| Samuel Adams | Leader of the Sons of Liberty, organizer of the Boston Tea Party, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Paul Revere | American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that the "British troops are coming". (1735-1818) |
| Charles Townsend | Developed the technique known as crop rotation. |
| John Adams | 2nd U.S. President who was a Federalist. (1979-1801) |
| Crispus Attucks | A free black man who was the first person killed in the Revolution at the Boston Massacre. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution. (1757-1834) |
| King George III | King of England during the American Revolution |
| Baron Von Steuben | Prussian drillmaster who who taught Washington's troops how to fight at Valley Forge. |
| Mercantilism | The theory that international commerce should primarily serve to increase a country's wealth. |
| "No taxation without representation" | The colonists' belief that they should not be taxed since they had no direct representatives in Parliament. |
| Nomimportation agreement | Series of commercial restrictions adopted by American colonists to protest British revenue policies prior to the American Revolution. |
| "Royal veto" | British Privy Council right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial system if it went against Mercantilism. |
| Internal / External taxation | Internal: A tax imposed that is not related to imports or exports. External: Tax put on goods that are imported. |
| "Virtual" representation | The British argument that the American colonies were represented in Parliament, since the members of Parliament represented all Englishmen in the empire. |
| Boycott | Refuse to do business with as a means of protest and persuasion. |
| Board of Trade | Commissioned by King William III of England to supervise commerce and review colonial laws so that they don't interfered with trade or conflicted with the laws of England. |
| Sons of Liberty | Secret societies formed to protest new taxes passed by Parliament. Led the Boston Tea Party and threatened tax collectors. |
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