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| British prime minister who sought to tighten British control over the colonies and impose taxes on colonial trade |
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| King of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820); his government's policies fed colonial discontent and helped start the American Revolution in 1776 |
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Ottawa chief and former French ally who organized the Covenant Chain; he mounted an unsuccessful siege of Fort Detroit in 1763
N.B.: Pontiac was also an American brand of automobile that was produced from 1926 to 2010; The center of American auto production was the city of Detroit. |
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| An alliance of American Indian peoples formed to resist colonial settlement in the Northwest and British trading policies |
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| Proclamation Line of 1763 |
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| British policy that banned white settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains; it was intended to reduce conflict between Indians and settlers, but it angered settlers. |
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| A government agency authorized to collect taxes on foreign goods entering a country |
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| General search warrants issued to customs officers by colonial courts, giving them the authority to search ships and warehouses for smuggled goods |
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| British law (1764) that taxed sugar, molasses, and other colonial imports to defray British expenses in protecting the colonies |
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| Any court that hears cases regarding the rights of private citizens |
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| British court that hears cases involving shipping |
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| A period of drastic economic decline, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment |
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| British law (1764) that banned the printing of paper money in the American colonies |
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| A protest in which people refuse to buy goods from or otherwise deal with a nation or group of people whose actions they object to |
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| Tax explicitly imposed to raise revenue |
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| British Law (1765) that levied direct taxes on a large variety of items, including newspapers, almanacs, and legal documents |
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| A secret organization formed in Boston to oppose the Stamp Act; its leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere |
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| Massachusetts revolutionary leader and propagandist who organized opposition to the Stamp Act and took part in the Boston Tea Party |
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| A representation of a hated or despised person |
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| Boston merchant who served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and later as governor; his efforts to enforce the Stamp Act prompted a mob to destroy his house |
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| Boston lawyer who argued that writs of assistance violated colonists' rights under British law and who called for colonists representation in Parliament |
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| A meeting of colonial delegates in New York in 1765, which drew up a declaration of rights and grievances for presentation to the king and Parliament |
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| A formal written request to a superior authority |
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| nonimportation agreements |
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| Colonial policy of refusing to import British goods, undertaken as a protest against the Stamp Act |
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| British law (1766) that asserted Parliament's right to make laws for and import taxes on the American colonies |
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| chancellor of the exchequer |
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| The head of the British government department in charge of collecting taxes; the exchequer is a treasury department |
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| Person chosen by each colonial assembly to represent each colony's interests in Parliament |
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| British laws (1767) that required the colonials to pay duties on manufactured goods--such as glass, lead, and tea--imported from Britain |
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| Philadelphia lawyer who drafted the Articles of Confederation and argued for the rights of small states |
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| Parliamentary representation that stems from people's status as citizens, regardless of whether they have directly elected delegates to look out for their specific interests |
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| Parliamentary representation by delegates directly elected to speak for voters' interests |
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| A meeting of women to compete or work together in spinning thread or yarn |
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| Patriot who became president of the First Continental Congress and was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
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| Incident in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which British troops fired on a crowd, killing five colonists; it increased colonial resentment of British rule |
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| British prime minister during the American Revolution |
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| The assertive use of militant action, such as demonstrations and strikes, too support a controversial position |
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| The desire to maintain the existing or traditional order |
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| A formal written statement that charges someone with the commission of a crime |
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| committees of correspondence |
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| Groups formed throughout the colonies in 1772 to quickly circulate news of British oppression |
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| British law (1773) that lowered the price of British tea but kept the tax on tea sold to America |
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| Protest against the Tea Act staged by Boston patriots in 1773; they boarded ships carrying British tea and dumped the tea into Boston Harbor |
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| The name colonists gave to four laws that Parliament passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party |
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| A legislative assembly of townspeople characteristic of local government in New England |
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| An offense punishable by death |
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| British law (1774) that aimed to reform the government of the former French colony of Canada; some of the provisions angered Americans |
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| Joseph Galloway's plan to restructure relations between the colonies and the mother country to give the colonies a greater say about local laws while preserving their basic colonial relationship with Britain |
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| Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
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| A resolution, passed by the First Continental Congress in 1774, that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies without their consent |
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| Resolutions adopted in 1774 by Boston and other towns in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, calling on the colonists to take up arms against the British |
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| Am American colonist who opposed British rule and fought for independence |
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| Am American colonist who supported the British side during the Revolution |
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| Nickname first given to the Concord militia and then applied generally to colonial militia at the time of the Revolution |
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| Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 that offered to end armed resistance if the king would withdraw his troops and revoke the Intolerable Acts |
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| British law (1775) that authorized the Royal Navy to seize all American ships engaged in trade; it amounted to a declaration of war |
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| Revolutionary pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in 1776; it attacked George III and argued against the monarchical form of government |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| Document adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1776 that listed the rights of man, described the abuses of George III, and declared the American colonies independent of Britain |
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