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General James Wolfe-led the British in taking over Quebec; killed in the battle

Currency Act- banned the use of paper money as legal tender; forced colonists to use gold and silver which was in short supply

Sugar Act- raised price of molasses; improvement on molasses act; rejected by colonists

Navigation Acts- tightened up in 1762; forced colonists to sell goods through Britain; angered colonists

John Hancock- smuggled French molasses so he wouldn’t have to pay for the English kind

Stamp Act- British tax imposed on colonists to pay for the British soldiers in the colony; rejected by many colonists

Sam Adams- wrote a book against the stamp act; An American View of the Stamp Act

Daughters of Liberty- women who provided supplies when the colonists were boycotting English goods; knit clothing etc.

Patrick Henry-one of the most outspoken Patriots in Virginia; blamed George III for supporting the ministers who designed the stamp act

James Otis-Massachusetts; disputed legitimacy of a general search warrant; cited English legal precedent

Townshend Acts-imposed duties on paper, paint, glass, and tea; gave some money to American military but more was given to imperial officers to increase their power; also created Revenue Act of 1767 which created a board of American custom commissioners

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania- written by John Dickinson; said that the real issue was not whether tax was internal or external but the intention of the legislation; argued the Townshend duties were designed to raise the revenue of the imperial government

Lord North-became prime minister; took away all taxes except for tea tax; American merchants did not mind

Tea Act-took away taxes on tea for East India Company; making it cheaper than the Dutch tea; when Americans began buying this tea Patriots thought it was a British scheme; directly leads to the civil war

Coercive Act-made to force Massachusetts in to submission; just after Boston Tea party; Boston Harbor was to be closed until the tea was paid for; local town meetings were prohibited; barracks were to built for the British soldiers or they were to be quartered in people’s houses; and all trials would be done in England

Excise levies-essentially sales taxes on goods such as salt beer and distilled spirits, once again passion on the costs of the war to the kind’s ordinary subjects (Pg. 136)
Rotten Boroughs-tiny districts whose voters were controlled by wealthy aristocrats and merchants. (Pg. 136)
Vice-admiralty courts-maritime tribunals composed only of a judge and not by a local common law jury. (Pg.137)
Radical Whigs-The emergence of a big and expensive government confirmed the predictions of the British opposition parties. (Pg.136)
Virtually represented- in the home legislature by the merchants who sat in parliament and by other members with interests in America. (Pg.139)
Sons of Liberty- led by men, the mobs demanded the resignation of newly appointed stamp tax collectors, most of whom were native born colonists. (Pg.141)
Common Law- the centuries old body of legal rules and procedures that protected the king’s subjects against arbitrary acts by the government. (Pg.143)
Homespun- American women ordinarily excluded from public affairs became their to the non importation movement through their production. (Pg.146)
Minutemen-The concord town meeting voted to raise a defensive force to stand at a minutes warning in case of alarm.