APUSH Chapter 7 Flashcards

Wealthy president of the Continental Congress and 'King of the Smugglers'.

British minister who raised a storm of protest by passing the Stamp Act.

Legislation passed in 1765, repealed the next year after colonial resistance made it impossible to enforce.

<p>Male and female organizations that enforced the nonimportation agreements, sometimes by coercive means.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Policies against the Stamp Act that aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary American men and women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Minister whose clever attempt to impose import taxes nearly succeeded, but eventually brewed more trouble for Britain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alleged African American leader of radical protesters killed in the Boston Massacre.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stubborn ruler, lustful for power, who prompted harsh ministers like Lord North.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Zealous defender of the common people's rights and organizer of underground propaganda committees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Event organized by disguised 'Indians' to sabotage British support of a British East India Company monopoly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harsh measures of retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, including the Boston Port Act closing that city's harbor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston Tea Party.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Body led by John Adams that issued a Declaration of Rights and organized The Association to boycott all British goods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nineteen-year-old major general in the Revolutionary army.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organizational genius who turned raw colonial recruits into tough professional soldiers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legislation that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Basic economic and political theory by which 17th and 18th-century European powers governed their overseas colonies to serve the mother country's needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Set of Parliamentary laws that restricted colonial trade and directed it to benefit Britain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Products, such as tobacco, that could be shipped only to England and not to foreign markets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hated British courts in which juries were not allowed and defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Effective form of organized colonial resistance against the Stamp Act.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel Adams.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roman Catholic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British political party opposed to Lord North's Tories and generally more sympathetic to the colonial cause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American revolutionaries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Paper currency authorized by Congress to finance the Revolution that depreciated to near worthlessness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Effective organization created by the First Continental Congress to provide a total, unified boycott of all British goods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rapidly mobilized colonial militiamen whose refusal to disperse sparked the first battle of the Revolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Popular term for British regular troops, scorned by colonials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxes on tea and other products that caused colonial resistance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legislation that extended Catholic jurisdiction into the western Ohio country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British attempt to seize colonial supplies and leaders at Lexington and Concord.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British parliamentary government head at the time of the American Revolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Possible revolts in Ireland and a war with France.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ability to enlist foreign soldiers, Loyalists, and Native Americans into their military forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fighting defensively on a large, agriculturally self-sufficient continent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fought in both American patriot and British loyalist military forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>America's distance from Britain and the growth of colonial self-government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Large British debt incurred defending the colonies in the French and Indian War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British government's attempt to maintain the East India Company's sea monopoly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>British attempt to seize the colonial militia's gunpowder supplies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Continental Congress's reluctance to tax Americans for war.</p> Signup and view all the answers