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APUSH CHAPTER 5 VOCAB

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Intolerable Acts: The Intolerable Acts was the American

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Second Continental Congress (1775): This meeting took

Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British


Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant
to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in
throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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Patrick Henry: was an American attorney, planter and


politician who became known as an orator during the movement
for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. A Founding Father,
he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of
Virginia. Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and
is remembered for his "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech.
Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is regarded as
one of the most influential champions of Republicanism and an
invested promoter of the American Revolution and its fight for
independence.

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Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war


between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented,
and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to
Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.
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Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act


Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes
imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were
unconstitutional.
The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial
protest but was not directed exclusively at the Stamp Act 1765,
which required that documents, newspapers, and playing cards
be printed on special stamped and taxed paper.

George Washington: was the first President of the United


States (1789-1797), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental
Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the
Founding Fathers of the United States.[3] He presided over the
convention that drafted the United States Constitution, which
replaced the Articles of Confederation and remains the supreme
law of the land.

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Land Ordinance of 1785: was adopted by the Continental


Congress in the United States on May 20, 1785. Under the
Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to
raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United
States. Therefore, the immediate goal of the ordinance was to
raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped
territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the
Revolutionary War in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Over threefourths of the area of the continental United States ultimately
came under the rectangular survey.

First Continental Congress (1774): A meeting of delegates

Declaration of Rights and Grievances: The Declaration of

Declaration of Independence: is the usual name of a


statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776,
which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at
war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly
independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British
Empire. Instead they formed a new nationthe United States of
America.

from twelve colonies in Philadelphia in 1774, the Congress


denied Parliament's authority to legislate for the colonies,
condemned British actions toward the colonies, created the
Continental Association, and endorsed a call to take up arms
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Thomas Jefferson: was an American Founding Father, the


principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and
the third President of the United States (1801-1809). He was a
spokesman for democracy, embraced the principles of
republicanism and the rights of the individual with worldwide
influence. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he
served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and
then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia

John Dickinson: was a solicitor and politician from


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware, He is
known as the "Penman of the Revolution". As a member of the
First Continental Congress Dickinson drafted the 1774 Petition
to the King, and as a member of the Second Continental
Congress wrote the 1775 Olive Branch Petition, two attempts to
negotiate with the King of England.

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Olive Branch Petition: was adopted by the Second Continental

John Adams: was the second president of the United States ,


having earlier served as the first vice president of the United
States. An American Founding Father, Adams was a statesman,
diplomat, and a leading advocate of American independence
from Great Britain. Well educated, he was an Enlightenment
political theorist who promoted republicanism, as well as a
strong central government, and wrote prolifically about his often
seminal ideas

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Samuel Adams: was an American statesman, political


philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United
States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a
leader of the movement that became the American Revolution,
and was one of the architects of the principles of American
republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United
States.

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place in Philadelphia in May 1775, in the midst of rapidly


unfolding military events. It organized the Continental Army and
commissioned George Washington to lead it, then began
requisitioning men and supplies for the war effort

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787: was an act of the Congress of


the Confederation of the United States passed July 13, 1787. The
primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest
Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from
lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains and south of the Great
Lakes and the international border with the Kingdom of Great
Britain and its territory of British North America , north and west
of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River across which
lie the colonial lands of the Kingdom of Spain, known as
Louisiana, exchanged later in 1802 from the French Republic
from its former New France colony in modern Canada.

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Paul Revere: was an American silversmith, engraver, early

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industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is


most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of
British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord
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Lexington & Concord: were the first military engagements of

1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare


and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of
1776
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the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on


April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln,
Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near
Boston. (Americans)
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absolute monarch: is a monarchical form of government in


which the monarch has absolute power among his or her people.
An absolute monarch wields unrestricted political power over the
sovereign state and its people. Absolute monarchies are often
hereditary but other means of transmission of power are attested.

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Prohibitory Act (1775): was passed as a measure of retaliation


by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in
the American colonies, which became known as the American
Revolutionary War. It declared and provided for a naval blockade
against American ports

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Treaty of Paris (1783): negotiated between the United States


and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized
American independence.

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Thomas Paine: was an English-American political activist,


philosopher, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the
author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the
American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare
independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenmentera rhetoric of transnational human rights.[

Minutemen/Continentals: were members of well-prepared


militia companies of select men from the American colonial
partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They
provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the
colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.

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Valley Forge: was the site of the military camp of the American
Continental Army over the winter of 1777-1778 during the
American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles
northwest of Philadelphia. Starvation, disease, and exposure
killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February
1778.

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Abigail Adams: was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice
President, and second President, of the United States, and the
mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. She is
remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while
he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental
Congresses

Articles of Confederation: was an agreement among the 13


founding states that established the United States of America as
a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first
constitution.

Loyalists (Tories): were American colonists who remained


loyal to the British Empire and the British monarchy during the
American Revolutionary War

Battle of Yorktown: the latter taking place on October 19, 1781


at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force
of American Continental Army troops led by General George
Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de
Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and
Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The culmination of the
Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land
battle of the American Revolutionary War, (Americans)

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Battle of Saratoga: marked the climax of the Saratoga


campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the
British in the American Revolutionary War. This victory for the
Americans allowed the French to fight with them on their behalf
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Patriots: were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who


violently rebelled against British control during the American
Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of
America an independent nation. Their rebellion was based on
the political philosophy of republicanism, as expressed by
spokesmen such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Thomas
Paine.

Battle of Bunker Hill: took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on


and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the
American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the
adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the
battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British
troops (British)

Common Sense: is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in

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Shays' Rebellion: was an armed uprising that took place in


Massachusetts, (mostly in and around Springfield,) during 1786
and 1787, which some historians believe "fundamentally altered
the course of United States' history."

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