first battles of the revolutionary war, fought outside of boston economic theory that closely linked a nation's political and military power to its bullion reserves boycotts against british goods adopted in response to the stamp act and later the townshend and intolerable acts required colonies to provide food and quarters for british troops

1. battle of lexington and concord

first battles of the revolutionary war, fought outside of boston

2. mercantilism

economic theory that closely linked a nation's political and military power to its bullion reserves

3. nonimportation agreements

boycotts against british goods adopted in response to the stamp act and later the townshend and intolerable acts

4. quartering act

required colonies to provide food and quarters for british troops. many colonists resented the act, which they perceived as an encroachment on their rights

5. quebec act

allowed the french residents of quebec to retain their traditional political and religious institutions, and extended the boundaries of the province southward to the ohio river

6. radical whigs

18th century british political commentators who agitated against political corruption and emphasized the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary war

7. republicanism

political theory of representative government, based on the principle of popular sovereignty, with a strong emphasis of liberty and civic virtue

8. sons of liberty

patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the stamp act and enforcing non-importation agreements

9. stamp act congress

assembly of delegates from 9 colonies who met in N.Y.C. to draft a petition for the repeal of the stamp act

10. stamp tax

widely-unpopular tax on an array of paper goods