APUSH 1763-1775

proclamation of 1763

issued of October 7, 1763 and was created to alleviate relations with natives after the French and Indian War and started that Americans were not permitted to passed the Appalachian Mountains.

Thomas Paine/Common Sense

one of the founding father of the United States and on 1/10/1776 he first published a persuasive argument that Americans should become independent and it was written in a style that the common person could read.

Crisis Papers

A series of works by Thomas Paine written between 1776 and 1783 during the American Revolution. These papers were written in a language common people could understand it increase American morale.

Stamp Act Congress

A meeting held October 1765 in NYC with delegates from 9 out of the 13 colonies. There the Declaration of Rights was written and told the hat only colonies could tax themselves, they had the right to trail by jury, all Rights of Englishmen, and the Parliament could not tax the colonist.

Olive Branch Petition

Written during the Second Continental Congress. It claimed that the colonies did not want to break free from Britain but wanted to discuss trade and tax regulations. The king rejected the regulations.

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Began in 1763 with Natives in the Great Lake region after their victory in the French and Indian War. The British won and created the Proclamation of 1763 to prevent further conflict.

Quartering Act

Was an act enforced by the British on their North American colonies. It required colonist to provide adequate housing and basic necessities like food to the troops.

Townshend Act

Were a series of acts imposed by the British on their North American colonies. They were to get the revenue needs to pay for the colonial royal governors and judges. The Boston Massacre was a result of these taxes.

Boston Tea Party

Was a reaction by the colonists of the British. The colonist disguised as Indians boarded a British ship and threw tea into the harbor on December 16, 1773.

Coercive/Intolerable Acts

Two names used to describe the laws enforced by the British Parliament against the colonies in response to the Boston Tea Party, It shut down the harbor.

Loyalist/Tories

The group of American colonist that remain loyal to the king during and after the American Revolution. When the British lost the war many left the United States.

Sons of Liberty

A group of American Patriots during the Revolutionary War. They rebelled by using violent attacks against the British crown and Loyalists.

First Continental Congress

Met in response to the Intolerable Acts and involved 12 out of 13 colonies. They organized boycott and wrote the Declaration of Rights.

Second Continental Congress

Involved all 13 colonies and was a response to Lexington and Concord and wrote the Olive Branch Petition, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation.

Boston Massacre

An event that killed five Boston colonist by British troops. It was sparked by a colonial rebellion in result of British taxes and the British opened fire.

Paxton Boys

A group of frontiersmen that murdered Native Americans. This group took law into their own hands because they didn’t feel the Pennsylvania government was protecting.

Tea Act

A tax on tea by the British Parliament on the colonies passed in 1773 because the British East India company was facing bankruptcy.

Battle of Saratoga

Turning point of the American Revolution that determined the British fate. The Americans defeated the British. The French began an open alliance with the Americans.

"No taxation without representation"

a slogan that abridged the main complaint of the British North American colonies. They felt if Britain was going to tax them, the needed direct representation in Parliament r it denied their rights.

Stamp Act

Many paper goods needed to have a tax stamp. It was imposed by the British on the colonies. The revenue went to pay for the troops station in the colonies.

Non-importation Agreements

the colonies agreed to not import certain items, including tea from the British of the British East India Company to cause hardships on the British economy.

Virtual Representation

when the colonies argued that the British couldn’t tax them without direct representation in Parliament the British government argued they were virtually represented by the king and charter holders

Gaspee Affair

a British ship that enforced the unfair British trade regulation was looted and burned by American patriots.

Sugar Act of 1764

A tax imposted by the British Parliament, which was enforced indirectly. It was used to raised money so that colonist could help pay off the debt of the French and Indian War.