HIGH SCHOOL OF AMERICAN STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE
MR. ELINSON’S U.S. HISTORY I
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Class Section HUS61H -
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Date:
Reading Schedule: - - pgs. 99-103 (The Great War for the Empire) by Monday December 14, 2015(Quiz)
- pgs.103-107 (The British and the Tribes)by Friday December 18th, 2015
- pgs.107-113 (The Townshend Acts) by Monday December 21st, 2015(Quiz)
- pgs 113-123 (end of the chapter) by Monday January 4th, 2016 (Quiz)
(Chapter #4 EXAM
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Before we approach the subject it is important that we identify the meanings of key terms used
in the textbook and the class lectures. In order to improve our comprehension of the material this week
we will define these terms at home using our class glossaries as well as our own dictionaries.
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Proclamation of 1763
constituents
encroachments
provisioning
Sugar Act of 1764
vice-admiralty courts
Currency Act of 1764
beleaguered
Paxton Boys
Regulators
redress
land speculation
precipitating
circumvent
appropriations
Home rule
Stamp Act of 1765
hampered
evoked
rationalized
Patrick Henry
“Virginia Resolves”
Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
disparities
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boycott
Marquis of Rockingham
repealed
Declaratory Act
Charles Townshend
Quartering Act of 1765
disbanded
Townshend Duties
annihilation
defiantly
board of customs
commissioners
homespun
affront
March 5, 1770
Crispus Attucks
“Boston Massacre”
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
public virtue
dissidents
safeguards
English Constitution
“No taxation without
representation”
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virtual representation
division of sovereignty
disenchantment
monopoly
Tea Act of 1773
exemption
Mercy Otis Warren
December 16th, 1773 –
Boston “tea party”
Coercive Acts
Quebec Act
martyr
extralegal bodies
“committees of
correspondence”
First Continental Congress
conciliating
“minutemen”
Gen. Thomas Gage
Lexington & Concord
William Dawes
lurid
irreconcilable