Unit 3

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Proclamation of 1763

The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists

a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.

Writ of assistance

issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform a certain task.

Search and seizure

Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime.

Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

Declaratory act

Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765.

series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.

Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

Intolerable/coercive acts

the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.

belief in the benefits of profitable trading

Lack of representation in parliament

No taxation without representation

French and Indian War

The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies.

British economic policies following the French and Indian war

The French and Indian war was part of the Seven Years war which was a global dispute between England and France. By the end of the war both France and England were near bankruptcy. So, the British decided to start making the American colonies pay more in taxes, to cover the cost of maintaining British troops in North America. Most of the policies England adopted were higher taxes at home and abroad to save them from bankruptcy.

Salutary neglect

Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to an unofficial and long-lasting 17th- & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.

Stamp act congress

The Stamp Act Congress, or First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America

First continental congress

The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

Minutemen were members of well-prepared militia companies of select men from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Patriot Whigs and, later Patriot Party, was a group within the Whig party in Great Britain from 1725 to 1803.

Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Empire and the British monarchy during the American Revolutionary War

Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice President, and second President, of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President.

John Adams was the second president of the United States, having earlier served as the first vice president of the United States. Wikipedia

Wentworth chestswell

Wentworth Cheswell was an African-American teacher, American Revolutionary War veteran, assessor, auditor, selectman and Justice of the Peace in Newmarket, New Hampshire

American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States.

Mercy Otis warren

Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men.

James Armistead

James Armistead Lafayette was an African American slave who served the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War as a spy and double agent.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin FRS was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American".

Bernardo de Gálvez

Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Viscount of Galveston and Count of Gálvez was a Spanish military leader and colonial administrator who served as colonial governor of Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain.

Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks may have been an American slave or freeman, merchant seaman and dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent

King George III

George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.

Haym Salomon was a Jewish American businessman and political financial broker who immigrated to New York from Poland during the period of the American Revolution.

Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.

The marquis de Lafayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, in the U.S. often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the United States

Thomas Paine was an English and American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

George Washington

George Washington was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution

Civil Disobedience

the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

Boston Tea Party

a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Intolerable Acts

the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.

a series of four acts established by the British government.

Sons of liberty

an organization of dissidents that originated in the North American British colonies

a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.

Declaration of Independence

defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.

the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened

Second continental congress

a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.

John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Robert Livingston

Robert R Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor", after the office he held for 25 years

Roger Sherman was an early American lawyer and politician, as well as a Founding Father of the United States.

Charles de Montesquieu

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.

John Locke FRS, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism".

William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone KC SL was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England.

the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

Pursuit of happiness

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.

Something that belongs to someone

Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

Good sense and judgement

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