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in the mid-eighteenth century Britain, the whigs were a political faction that dominated Parliment.
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Parliamentary Soverignty-
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A concept in the Anglo-American.
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Notion that although colonists had not elected members to parliment, they were nonetheless represented by it.
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People who sided with the king and Parliment during the Revolution.
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Meeting of colonial delegates in New York City in october 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, a law passed by Parliament to
raise revenue in America.
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A violent confrontion between British troops and a boston mob on March 5,1770.
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Committee of Correspndence-
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Vast Communication networ formed in Massachusetts and other colonies to communicate grievances and provide colonists
with evidence of British oppression.
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Also known as the Intolerable Acts, the four pieces of legislation passed by Parliment in 1774 in response to the Boston
tea party were meant to punish the colonies.
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First Continental Congress-
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A meeting of delegates from twelve colonies in Philadelphia in 1774, the congress denied parliaments authority to legislate
for the colonies, condemned British actions toward the colonies, created the continental Association, and right to vote in
the south.
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Norimportation-
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During their controversy with Britain over taxation, the colonists devised a stategy of political resistance in which
they boycotted a wide range of british imported goods to put economic pressure on Britain.
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Second Continental Congress-
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This meeting took place in Philadelphia in May 1775, in the midest of raoidly unfolding military events.
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Common sense-
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Revolutionary tract written by Thomas Paine in January 1776.
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