Apush Period 2 Vocab

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense:

• This discouraged Americans to rise in opposition to the British government and reform the government based on Magna Carta ideals. Historians have cited the publication of this pamphlet as the event that finally sparked the Constitution

• This encouraged Americans to rise in opposition to the British government and establish a new government based on Enlightenment ideals. Historians have cited the publication of this pamphlet as the event that finally sparked the Revolutionary War.

• This encouraged Americans to pay to the British government taxes incurred during the French and Indian war

• This encouraged Americans to rise in opposition to the British government and establish a new government based on Roman ideals.

First law passed by Parliament that raised tax revenues in the colonies for the crown. It increased duty on foreign imports from the West Indies.

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Jays' treaty

This New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France, ultimately ending with a British victory and a huge debt.

• Seven Years War

• The French and Indian War

• The Northwest Ordinance

• Both A and B

This provided framework of natural rights for both American and French Revolution, rise of capitalism and heavily influenced Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine.

• Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• The Enlightenment

• The French Revolution

• The articles of Confederation

The Second Continental Congress

• issued a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington in May 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war.

• It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.

• Managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

• It established the precedent by which the Federal government would be sovereign and expand westward with the admission of new states

The New England law that allow all protestants to worship freely

• Malice Maleficarum Act

• The Tolerance Act

• THe Congregationalist act

• The Declaratory Act

The Term for Indentured servant families

• Exemptors

• Redemptures

• Patriaries

• Evangelicals

This 1773 Pennsylvania purchase was considered a fraudulent deal with the Lennni Lenape Indians took much more land than anticipated

• The Walking Purchase

• The Lenni Agreement

• The Quaker State Deal

• The Delano - Lenape Act

Passed by Oliver Cromwell i 1651, aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch. This law required American goods to be shipped only in English ships

• The trade acts

• The Coercive Acts

• The Navigation Acts

• The Trumble Acts

1676 Bacon's rebellion was an uprising against the governor, so new settlers gain new land through the extermination or removal on Native Americans

• Christian Roberts

• Jacob Marley

• Johnston Dowdson

• William Berkeley