APUSH Ch.7 Study Guide – Flashcards

British royal governor who encouraged runaway slaves to join his army.

Organizational genius who turned raw colonial recruits into tough military soldiers.

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

Zealous defender of the common people's rights and organizer of underground propaganda committees.

Alleged leader of radical protesters killed in Boston Massacre.

EFFECT: Led to gradual developments of a colonial sense of independence years before the Revolution.

EFFECT: Fostered restrictions on colonial manufacturing, trade, and paper currency.

EFFECT: Led Grenville to propose the Sugar Act, Quartering Act, and Stamp Act.

EFFECT: Was greeted in the colonies by the non-import agreements, the Stamp Act Congress, and the forced resignation of stamp agents.

EFFECT: Were responsible for the Boston Massacre.

EFFECT: Spurred patriots to stage Boston Tea Party.

EFFECT: Prompted passage of the Intolerable Acts, including the Boston Port Act.

EFFECT: Prompted the summoning of the First Continental Congress.

EFFECT: Precipitated the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

EFFECT: Resulted in the printing of large amounts of paper currency and skyrocketing inflation.

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

Legislation passed in 1765 but repealed the next year, after colonial resistance made it impossible to enforce.

Minister whose clever attempt to impose import taxes nearly succeeded but eventually brewed trouble for Britain.

Stubborn ruler, lustful for power; served by compliant ministers like Lord North.

Event organized by disguised "Indians" to sabotage British support of British East India Company monopoly.

Harsh measures of retaliation for a tea party, including the Boston Port act.

Body, led by John Adams, that issued a Declaration of Rights and ordered The Association to boycott all British goods.

Nineteen-year-old major general in the Revolutionary army.

Legislation that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops and led to suspension of the New York legislature upon its refusal to obey.

The basic economic and political theory by which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European powers governed their overseas colonies.

The set of Parliamentary laws, first passed in 1650, that restricted colonial trade and directed it to the benefit of Britain.

The term for products, such as tobacco, that could be shipped only to England and not to foreign markets.

Hated British courts in which juries were not allowed and defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocence.

British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members.

The effective form of organized resistance against the Stamp Act, which made homespun clothing fashionable.

The item taxed under the Townshend Acts that generated the greatest colonial resistance.

Underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel Adams that sustained colonial resistance.

Religion that was granted toleration in the Trans-Allegheny West by the Quebec Act, arousing deep colonial hostility.

British political party opposed to Lord North's' Tories and generally more sympathetic to the colonial cause.

German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American revolutionaries.

Currency authorized by Congress to finance the Revolution and depreciated to near worthlessness.

Effective organization created by the First Continental Congress to provide a total, unified boycott of all British goods.

Rapidly mobilized colonial militiamen whose refusal to disperse sparked the first battle of the Revolution.

Term for British regular troops, scorned as "lobster backs" and "bloody backs" by Bostonians and other colonials;British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution; so called because of their bright red uniforms.

Georgia.

Republicanism and fear of corruption/threat to liberty posed by the arbitrary power of the monarch and his ministers relative to elected representatives in Parliament.

The British crown's reserved right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial assemblies if such laws worked mischief with the mercantilist system. Used 469 out of 8,563 times.