Chapter 4 Terms and Names
committees of correspondance
On of the groups set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their attributes.
Stamp Act
A 1765 law in which parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
Marques de Lafayette
A French aristocrat who offered to help Washington
Friedrich von Steuben
A Prussian captain and talented drill master. Made Washington's armey better.
egalitarianism
A belief in the equality of all people
Boston Massacre
A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770,in which five of the colonists were killed.
Olive Branch Petition
A plead from Congress to the king to go back to the former harmony
Samuel Adams
A powerful and influential political activist
Townsend Acts
A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767,establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America
Loyalists
Against Independence
Common Sense
An anonymous 50 page pamphlet
inflation
An increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money
minutemen
Civilian soldiers
Treaty of Paris
Confirmed U.S independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
Second Continental Congress
Congress that approved the Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
Drew in the concepts of John Locke
Intolerable Acts
Laws that shut down Boston Harbor
King George III
Made Parliament do the Intolerable Acts
martial law
Rule imposed by military forces
Charles Cornwalls
Sailed south with 8,500 men.
Yorktown
The British surrender hapoened near here.
Thomas Jefferson
The author of the Declaration of Independence, known for his broad knowledge and skillfully crafted prose
Boston Tea Party
The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act.
profiteering
The selling of goods in short supply at inflated prices.
Trenton
The site of the Battle of Trenton. Americans fought the Hessians and won.
Valley Forge
The site of the Continental Army's camp during the winter of 1777-1778
Patriots
The supporters of independence
Saratoga
This is where Burgoyne surrendered his battered army to General Gates on October 17,1777