Term
|
Definition
| British statement that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachain mountains. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| War from 1756 to 1763 between France and Great Britain for supremacy in North America. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| court orders authorinzing British troops to search for smuggled goods during colonial times. |
|
|
Term
| favorable balance of trade |
|
Definition
| value of exports is higher than the value of imports. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| British law placing a tax on printed colonial material. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| another word for a legislature. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| colonial group that opposed the Stamp Act and adovacted independence. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| British Act of Parliament delaring its right to tax and legislature over the colonies 1766. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Housing and caring for foreign soldiers. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| violent confronation between British troops and colonists, 1770. |
|
|
Term
| committees of correspondence |
|
Definition
| groups organized by the sons of Liberty to write pieces in support of independence from Great Britians. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Protest by the sons of Liberty against the British, 1773. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| British laws in response to the Boston Tea Party. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Influential 1776 pamphlets written by thomas paine, that called for indepenence from Great Britian. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Earliest (1754) plan to unify the colonies spearheaded by Benjamin Franklin. |
|
|
Term
| Delaration of Independene |
|
Definition
| Document from 1776 explaining why the American colonies were separating from Great Britian. |
|
|
