8th Grade ELL Lab List 4

​Enlightenment - the beliefs that influenced the American Revolution were natural rights, the social contract, and the right to overthrow the government if the social contract was violated.

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​proclamation - a public or official announcement, especially one dealing with a matter of great importance

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​Stamp Act - It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. The tax also included fees for playing cards, dice, and newspapers.

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​Townshed Acts - To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

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​Coercive (intolerable) acts - The British instated the acts to make an example of the colonies after the Boston Tea Party, and the outrage they caused became the major push that led to the outbreak American Revolution in 1775.

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​Quartering Act - This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This only further enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.

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​Sons of Liberty - The Sons of Liberty, a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy, was established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the Boston Tea Party.

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Common Sense - ​ a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

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.Quebec Act-It was passed to gain the loyalty of the French-speaking majority of the Province of Quebec. Based on recommendations from Governors James Murray and Guy Carleton, the Act guaranteed the freedom of worship and restored French property rights. Many colonists interpreted this is an establishment of Catholicism in the colonies.

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