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Chapters 4,5,6,7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Artisan | A skilled worker, using hand tools, usually in a small shop, such as a carpenter, copper, shoemaker, or silversmith |
| Franchiser | The right to vote, widespread among colonial free white males? |
| Half-way Covenant | An attempt by New England clergy in 1662 to counteract declining church membership by allowing the children of church members to join the church even though they had not experienced salvation; they were, however, denied voting and communion rights. |
| Power of the purse | The power of colonial legislatures in the eighteenth century to initiate money bills, specifying the amount to be raised and its uses. |
| Nonimportation and nonconsumption agreements | Economic boycotts, as individual colonists pledged neither to import nor to use any British articles but rather to go without or to make their own, the main tactic of colonists protesting the Townshend and the Tea Act |
| Privateers | Privately owned ships licensed by colonial governments to attack French merchant shipping during the Seven Years' War |
| Revolutionary Republicanism | A set of political ideals developed in the American Revolutionary era that emphasized anti-monarchy, liberty in balance with power, and political equality in tension with rule by an aristocracy of talent. |
| Bills of credit | Paper money issued by the continental government and backed by government credit to finance the war |
| Loyalists | Americans loyal to the crown during the Revolution who actively supported, sympathized with or fought on the British side |
| Partisan Warfare | American strategy (Guerrilla warfare) under Nathaniel Greene in the South whereby several small, highly mobile bands of soldiers waged hit-and-run attacks on British troops rather than standing together as one army |
| Privateering | Government chartering of private vessels to prey upon English merchant ships |
| Sovereignty | Source or locus of ultimate power; for republican ideology, sovereignty resided in the people |
| Federalism | A system where political power is divided between a central(national)government and smaller government units called states or provinces |
| Ordinance | A governmental law or regulation |
| Ratification | Formal sanctioning of a document such as a proposed constitution or treaty |
| Relief ("stay") laws | State laws desired by debtors and farmers in hard times that would suspend the collection of private debts and the foreclosure of farms for a specified period. |
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