A) The boycott's negative effect was less than the government expected because so few people complied.
B) Hard-hit by the boycott,British merchants and manufacturers petitioned Parliament to repeal the Townshend Duties.
C) Disappointed by American-made products,many colonists had stopped boycotting British products by this time.
D) The Radical Whig John Wilkes,an American sympathizer,became leader of the majority in the House of Commons.
F) A) and C)
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A) Southern slave owners needed northerners' support to ensure the preservation of the institution of slavery throughout the colonies.
B) The southern gentry blamed British economic regulations for the drop in their standard of living to a level below that of northern farmers.
C) They feared the British would seize control of courts and assemblies in the South if they succeeded in doing so in Massachusetts.
D) They conducted most of their economic transactions through Boston or New York,which were already embroiled in the crisis.
F) All of the above
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A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court.
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury.
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766.
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F) A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G) Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H) The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I) The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) ,political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J) Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K) British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L) Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M) A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N) British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O) Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P) September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q) An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R) A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S) Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T) Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U) A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V) The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
X) C) and U)
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A) All thirteen
B) Massachusetts,New York,Pennsylvania,and Virginia
C) Virginia,Massachusetts,and Rhode Island
D) Massachusetts only
F) None of the above
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A) The need for higher taxes spurred Britain to increase the size and power of its bureaucracy in England and America.
B) Britain's debt crisis led the Parliament to suspend the colonies' royal governorships and decrease its subsidies to the monarchy.
C) Americans' cooperation with the new tax code allowed Britain to transfer government officials from the colonies back to London.
D) In response to the fiscal crisis,Parliament reduced the size of its domestic and colonial tax bureaucracies,but it increased their power dramatically.
F) B) and D)
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A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court.
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury.
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766.
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F) A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G) Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H) The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I) The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) ,political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J) Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K) British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L) Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M) A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N) British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O) Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P) September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q) An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R) A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S) Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T) Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U) A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V) The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
X) D) and J)
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A) Immediate war with Britain
B) The pursuit of a military alliance with Spain
C) Political union and defensive military preparations
D) The Congress's seizure of British Canada
F) C) and D)
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A) Patriot leaders convened the group in response to the imposition of the Coercive Acts.
B) The group united representatives from all of the British colonies in North America.
C) It reviewed and accepted Joseph Galloway's Plan of Union.
D) Delegates drafted and passed a conciliatory declaration of rights and grievances.
F) C) and D)
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A) They published the names of merchants who imported British goods.
B) Women joined public protests demanding the resignation of British officials.
C) They promoted nonimportation by making and wearing homespun cloth.
D) The group amassed signatures and sent petitions to Parliament for redress.
F) A) and B)
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A) A Pennsylvania Quaker
B) A tenant farmer in New York's Hudson River Valley
C) A yeoman farmer in Connecticut
D) An Anglican minister in Virginia
F) A) and C)
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A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court.
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury.
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766.
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F) A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G) Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H) The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I) The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) ,political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J) Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K) British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L) Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M) A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N) British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O) Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P) September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q) An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R) A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S) Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T) Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U) A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V) The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
X) K) and S)
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A) Delegates elected Sam Adams as president.
B) George Washington became head of the Continental army.
C) The body rejected John Adams's proposal for reconciliation.
D) Southerners agreed to emancipate all slaves who helped fight the British.
F) B) and C)
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A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court.
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury.
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766.
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F) A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G) Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H) The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I) The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) ,political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J) Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K) British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L) Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M) A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N) British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O) Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P) September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q) An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R) A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S) Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T) Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U) A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V) The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
X) R) and U)
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A) They were administered by the British Navy rather than civilian officials.
B) These courts were located in Britain and defendants were required to pay for travel.
C) The courts were run by British-appointed judges.
D) Colonists did not believe they should be prosecuted by the same courts as British criminals.
F) B) and C)
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A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court.
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury.
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766.
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F) A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G) Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H) The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I) The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) ,political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J) Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K) British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L) Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M) A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N) British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O) Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P) September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q) An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R) A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S) Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T) Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U) A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V) The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
X) S) and U)
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A) British law that decreased the duty on French molasses,making it more attractive for shippers to obey the law,and at the same time raised penalties for smuggling.The act enraged New England merchants,who opposed both the tax and the fact that prosecuted merchants would be tried by British-appointed judges in a vice-admiralty court.
B) A maritime tribunal presided over by a royally appointed judge,with no jury.
C) British law imposing a tax on all paper used in the colonies.Widespread resistance to the Stamp Act prevented it from taking effect and led to its repeal in 1766.
D) The claim made by British politicians that the interests of the American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords (mostly sugar planters) who owned estates in the West Indies.
E) A British law passed by Parliament at the request of General Thomas Gage,the British military commander in America,that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.
F) A congress of delegates from nine assemblies that met in New York City in October 1765 to protest the loss of American "rights and liberties," especially the right to trial by jury.The congress challenged the constitutionality of both the Stamp and Sugar Acts by declaring that only the colonists' elected representatives could tax them.
G) Colonists-primarily middling merchants and artisans-who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies.
H) The centuries-old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the lives and property of the British monarch's subjects.
I) The rights to life,liberty,and property.According to the English philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) ,political authority was not given by God to monarchs.Instead,it derived from social compacts that people made to preserve these rights.
J) Law issued by Parliament to assert Parliament's unassailable right to legislate for its British colonies "in all cases whatsoever," putting Americans on notice that the simultaneous repeal of the Stamp Act changed nothing in the imperial powers of Britain.
K) British law that established new duties on tea,glass,lead,paper,and painters' colors imported into the colonies.These laws led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
L) Colonists attempted nonimportation agreements three times: in 1766,in response to the Stamp Act;in 1768,in response to the Townshend duties;and in 1774,in response to the Coercive Acts.In each case,colonial radicals pressured merchants to stop importing British goods.In 1774 this policy was adopted by the First Continental Congress and enforced by the Continental Association.American women became crucial to the movement by reducing their households' consumption of imported goods and producing large quantities of homespun cloth.
M) A communications network established among towns in the colonies,and among colonial assemblies,between 1772 and 1773 to provide for rapid dissemination of news about important political developments.
N) British act that lowered the existing tax on tea and granted exemptions to the East India Company to make their tea cheaper in the colonies and entice boycotting Americans to buy it.Resistance to this act led to the passage of the Coercive Acts and imposition of military rule in Massachusetts.
O) Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea.Known in America as the Intolerable Acts,they led to open rebellion in the northern colonies.
P) September 1774 gathering of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis precipitated by the Coercive Acts.The Congress produced a declaration of rights and an agreement to impose a limited boycott of trade with Britain.
Q) An association established in 1774 by the First Continental Congress to enforce a boycott of British goods.
R) A 1774 war led by Virginia's royal governor,the Earl of Dunmore,against the Ohio Shawnees,who had a long-standing claim to Kentucky as a hunting ground.The Shawnees were defeated and Dunmore and his militia forces claimed Kentucky as their own.
S) Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770s.These volunteers formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
T) Legislative body that governed the United States from May 1775 through the war's duration.It established an army,created its own money,and declared independence once all hope for a peaceful reconciliation with Britain was gone.
U) A document containing philosophical principles and a list of grievances that declared separation from Britain.Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4,1776,it ended a period of intense debate with moderates still hoping to reconcile with Britain.
V) The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate.
X) K) and N)
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