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| the First Continental Congress met in this city on September 5, 1774 |
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| banned the use of paper money in the colonies |
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| were a special unit of men created by the town of Concord that were trained to fight at a moment's notice |
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| name given to Americans who were loyal to Britain, also known as Tories |
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| this pamphlet written by Thomas Paine attacked the monarchy |
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| asserted that the Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies |
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| was a pledge entered into by merchants to not buy any British goods until Parliament repealed the Stamp Act |
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| extended Quebec's boundaries to include the much of what is today Ohio, Illinois, MIchigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin |
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| under this treaty the French lost all title to mainland North America |
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| woman's group that began sinning their own rough cloth called "homespun" |
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| committees of correspondence |
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| were created by the colonies to communicate with one another about British activities |
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| changed the tax rates on imports of raw sugar and molasses and placed new taxes on silk, wine, coffee, and indigo |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| document in which colonies declared themselves independent |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| states that everyone is created equal |
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| were a set of laws that the British hoped would dissuade other colonies from challenging British authority like Massachusetts had with the Boston Tea Party |
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| Royal Proclamation of 1763 |
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| declared that colonists could not settle west of a line drawn north to south along the Appalachian Mountains |
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| incident in which the colonists burned a British ship that had run aground |
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| its purpose was to negotiate an alliance with the Iroquois |
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| Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
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| this document expressed loyalty to the king, but condemned the Coercive Acts and stated that the colonies would enter into a nonimportation association |
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| proposed that the colonies join together |
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| was the first direct tax Britain placed on the colonists |
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| these were general search warrants used by customs officers to help them arrest smugglers |
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| at Quebec was a turning point of the French and Indian War |
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| resulted because a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house |
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| along with Paul Revere, spread the alarm after British troops were on a road that took them past the town of Lexington |
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| these taxes were placed on goods that were imported to and exported from America |
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| were another name given to both the Quebec Act and the Coercive Acts |
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| protested the Stamp Act by refusing to buy goods from Britain |
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| brought temporary peace to the colonies after the Boston Massacre by repealing most of the Townshend Acts |
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| occurred because both the French and the British wanted the Ohio River Valley |
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| was the name of the war that eventually started as the French and Indian war between the French and the british but later spread to Europe |
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| as independent states, declared themselves able to establish trade with other nations and contract alliances |
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| was appointed as commander in chief of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress |
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