American History Unit 1 Review

1. Salutary Neglect

• a British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically.
• 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials
• colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament
• group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774
• American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies

2. Stamp Act

• a British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically.
• 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials
• colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament
• group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774
• American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies

3. Intolerable Acts

• a British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically.
• 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials
• colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament
• group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774
• American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies

4. First Continental Congress

• a British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically.
• 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials
• colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament
• group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774
• American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies

5. Nonimportation Agreements

• a British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically.
• 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials
• colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament
• group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia, that met in 1774
• American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed in 1774 to control the colonies

6. Members of armed Patriot groups who would take the field at a moment's notice in the days leading up to and during the Revolutionary War

• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Second Continental Congress
• Continental Army
• Declaration of Independence

7. Assembly of delegates representing every colony that met in 1775 in Philadelphia following the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Second Continental Congress
• Continental Army
• Declaration of Independence

8. Army that represented the colonies during the Revolutionary War

• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Second Continental Congress
• Continental Army
• Declaration of Independence

9. Colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War

• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Second Continental Congress
• Continental Army
• Declaration of Independence

10. Document drawn up by the Second Continental Congress, and approved in 1776, that announced American independence and explained the reasons for it

• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Second Continental Congress
• Continental Army
• Declaration of Independence