US History Unit 2 Vocab

an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a duty on newspapers and legal and commercial a duty newspapers and legal and commercial documents

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Money Act

• Checks Act

a series of religious revivals in the North American British colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries

• Great Awakening

• Great Religous Ferver

• Great Prayer Time

• Religious Awakening

a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the American cause

• revolutionary

• loyalist

• general

• patriot

known as the Coercive Acts by the British; these laws helped close the British port from colonial use and ban colonial town hall meetings

• Terrible Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Ridiculous Acts

• Stamp Act

were designed to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world

• Shipping Acts

• Trade Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Navigation Acts

the inclusion of different types of people (such as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization

• diversity

• welcoming

• nicety

• persecution

a political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty

• Democracy

• Democratism

• Republicanism

• Republic

ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years War between Great Britain and France and their respective allies

• Treaty of Paris of 1763

• Treaty of Paris of 1977

• Treaty of Paris of 2017

• Treaty of Paris of 1865

a secret organization that was created in the 13 American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

• Sons of Anarchy

• Sons of Liberty

• Sons of Guns

• Sons of Washington

a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause

• revolutionary

• loyalist

• patriot

• hater