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Michael Kadish
9/17/95
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1) JOHN HANCOCK Colonial wholesale smuggler, who became a hero in his exaggerated form of rebellion. Became known as "The King of Smugglers" and went on to great American prominence
2) LORD NORTH A yes-man appointed as primeminister by George III whose lack of thinking led to the revolution.
3) GEORGE GRENVILLE Prime minister of England during the colony's stamp tax. A good business leader but poor politician.
4) SAMUEL ADAMS Brother and uncle of two different presidents, strong radical Mass. supporter of revolution.
5) CHARLES TOWNSHED A brilliant drunken member of Parliament who convinced them to passing the Townshed act, a tea tax.
6) JOHN ADAMS Second president of the united states. Brother of samuel, but the shrewd defense attourny of the soldiers in the Boston Massacre. Firey speaker who inspired the Continental Congress to fight.
7) CRISPUS ATTUCKUS An escaped slave, who was the first to die in the Boston Massacre; the first to die for American independance
8) PATRICK HENRY Loud Virginia speaker, helped inspire revolutionary feelings with "Give me liberty or give me death"
9) MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nineteen year old French General who helped prepare American men for the Revolutionary War on his own accord, and gave nearly $200,000 for the war effort
10) KING GEORGE III A king on the verge of senility who did the British Empire in with his own eas approaches.
11) BARON von STEUBEN A German Baron who was a much needed American drill sargeant for the Rev. War.
12) MERCANTILISM Economic theory opposed by Adam Smith, that made a colony do whatever it could to please its mother country
13) NONIMPORTATION AGREEMENTS Basically, an attempt by the colonies to avoid all British goods. This for the first time brought the people together.
14) "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" Battle cry arguement against the small taxes inflicted upon the colonies by England. This was the issue that was not to be resolved.
15) PROTECTIVE TARIFFS Tariffs instilled to increase the price of alien imported goods.
16) DUTY A tax payed on all wholesale or retail goods brought through a country that increase it cost.
17) "ROYAL VETO" An unpopular and sparsely used power by the throne to veto any ruling a legislative body made in the new world.
18) INTERNAL\EXTERNAL TAXATION The two different types of taxation brought upon the colonists. The former being a sales tax of sorts-added to the price of a retail good, the latter being a set fee for bringing things into the country.
20) PROPAGANDA Used in this chapter by Adams and Paul Revere to demonstrate the tyrany of the British
21) VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION The English rebuttal to "No taxation without representation." They claim that their representatives represented the good of all England.
22) BOYCOTT The avoidance, in this chapter, of buyin British goods, most notably tea, to avoid taxes and decrease the English sales
23) BOARD OF TRADE Founded in 1696, a committee deciding on the welfare of the American people. Quickly considered a joke, yet Parliament passed its bills.
24) SONS OF LIBERTY An anti British pro revolution group. Based in Mass, and worked with Daughters of Liberty.
25) QUEBEC ACT Act passed in 1744 that gave the 50,000 or so frenchman a larger track of land. This angered the American Anglicins by helping the Catholics along with "Intolerable Acts"
26) NAVIGATION ACTS England started needing money in 1764 after the French and Indian Wars, and turned to these for money. They went back to the Mercatile theory for this issue.
27) DECLARATORY ACT A protective measure by Parliament in 1733. Passed after the Stamp Act was repealed it gave Parliament the right to controll the colonies.
28) FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS Futile legislative group drawn together in Philly in 1774 to protest the acts issued by Parliament.
29) SUGAR ACT 1764, it was the first attempt to raise money for the crown by the colonies.
30) TOWNSHEND ACTS An act passed in 1767 that collected a tax on tea and payed the crown appointed governor. This led to the Boston Tea Party.
31) QUARTERING ACTS Passed in 1765 hthis infuriated colonists as they had to keep soldiers in their homes under request.
32) BOSTON MASSACRE The provoked or unprovoked slaying of a dozen colonists by British infantry in 1770. This was played as a trump card by the colonists who got most of their taxes repealed.
33) THE ASSOCIATION Created in outrage in 1775. This called for a complete bocott of British goods.
34) STAMP ACT Passed in 1765, this created a tax on some fifty paper contracts or forms. It was a tax to make something official
35) COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE The first meeting of a congress in the colonies to protest Briotish activity. Had representatives from nine colonies.
36) HESSIANS German soldiers of fortune working for the British in the Revolutionary War
37) ADMIRALLY COURTS Courts in Britain without a jurry, where you are assumed guilty unless proved innocent.
38) BOSTON TEA PARTY Occurence where Bostonians (over)reacted to the Townshed Acts by dressing up as Indians bording a British East India ship and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the water. This was the anger point from Parliaments point of view
39) LOYALISTS The colonists that remained loyal to the throne; Torries
40) STAMP ACT CONGRESS A very futile congress created in 1765 which broght 27 delegates together to complain about the Stamp Act
41) INTOLLERABLE ACTS Passed in 1774 this was a series of acts that were directly intended to punish Boston.
42) "CONTINENTAL" Money issued by the Continental Congress. Soon became inflated to near worthless.
43) PATRIOTS The colonists that were rebelling against the throne; Whigs
44) OLIVE BRANCH PETITION A petition sent to the king in 1775 in a fruitless attempt to keep peace with the king, but to fight Parliament