Chapter 4 - Toward Revolution

History 109 with Weeks at San Diego State University

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Who Built America? Volume One: To 1877: Working People and the Nation's History
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The Thirteen Colonies

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Benjamin Franklin

Put forward the Albany Plan

Albany Plan

a plan for a union of colonies to conduct defense and Indian affairs, but this came to nothing

creoles

colonial-born

peninsulares

spanish born

Green Mountain Boys

New England settlers whom waged sporadic guerrilla warfare against the New York authorities.
Headquarters: Catamount Tavern

Paxton Expedition

To kill the Paxtonians since in 1763 the Pennsylvania government did not protect them from Indian counterattacks.

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English liberties

voting for representatives, protection from arbitrary power, common law rights such as that to trial by jury

Appalachian Mountains

Virginia settlers and Pennsylvania traders crossed to be a territorial threat to France.

Sugar Act

low duty on imported molasses, making smuggling less lucrative and provided for more customs officers to be sent to America to enforce the law, with the right to receive 1/3 of the values of every vessel and cargo they condemned for smuggling.
Parliament's first attempt to levy a widespread colonial tax over the heads of colonial assemblies

Charles Townshend

1767 chancellor
Sought to levy "external" taxes on goods brought into the colonies.

Revenue Act of 1767

Taxes on paint, paper, lead, glass, and tea as they reached America.

Activists convinced merchants not to purchase goods from Brit

Quartering Act

Obliging New Yorkers to board soldiers in their houses when required.

Loyal Nine

a small group of men composed of a painter, printer, jeweler, and 2 braziers, initiated popular resistance to the Stamp Act in the summer of 1765

John Hancock

Protested with the Loyal Nine.
Boston merchant and smuggler

Battle of Golden Hill

Battle between soldiers and laborer, 2 day street fight in New York January 1770.

Boston Massacre

Redcoats fired and fatally wounded five Bostonians.

Tea Act

not intended as a colonial taxation measure.
Should have made everyone happy: Britain would get taxes, the East Idia Company would get revenue, & colonists would get cheap tea.

Boston Tea Party

Men disguised as "Mohawks" entered a ship and dumped all of the tea into the harbor to revolt against the Tea Act.

Continental Association

measure the decreed a complete boycott of European products and called for the creation of committees throughout the colonies to enforce it.

Common Sense

Embodied radicalism in both senses, arguing both for American independence and for a new form of politics and society in the former colonies.
by Thomas Paine

Battle of Alamance

Ended a 6 year conflict in the North Carolina back country between disenfranchised middling and poor whites (Regulators), and the provincial government dominated by the coastal elite.

About this deck

By: Steven Tran
Textbook:

Who Built America? Volume One: To 1877: Working People and the Nation's History
Created: 2011-06-13
Size: 22 flashcards
Views: 47

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