APUSH- Ch. 7 Vocab

Defined a just society as one in which all citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish self interests to the common good

Followers believed that wealth was power and that a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury

Law passed by Parliament to regulate the mercantilist system; aimed at rival Dutch shippers. Said that all commerce flowing to and from the colonies could only be transported in British/colonial vessels

First aroused the resentment of the colonists in 1763 by ordering the British navy to begin strictly enforcing the Navigation Laws

First law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown; among various provisions, it increased the duty on foreign sugar

Required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops

Mandated the use of stamped paper/the affixing of stamps

Assemblage in New York City which brought together 27 delegates who drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act

Reaffirmed Parliament's right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsover". It defined absolute and unqualified sovereignty over its North American colonies

Imposed a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea; was an indirect customs duty payable at American ports

One of the first to die in the Boston Massacre

When British troops opened fire into a jeering crowd, killing/wounding eleven people

Ruler of Britain attempting to assert the power of the British monarchy

Master propagandist and engineer of rebellion; organized the local committees of correspondence in Massachusetts

December 16, 1773 - About 100 Bostonians disguised as Indians smashed open 342 chests of tea and dumped them into Boston Harbor

Guaranteed French subjects their Catholic religion and permitted them to retain many of their old customs and institutions

Fifty-five delegates who met in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances

Swayed his colleagues at the First Continental Congress to a revolutionary course

Called for a complete boycott of British goods

Battle in which the British sent a detachment of troops to seize stores of colonial gunpowder; first mitilary act

19-yr-old French nobleman who was made a major general in the colonial army

Drillmaster who whipped his colonial soldiers into line