5-1 Test Flashcards
(17 cards)
Proclamation of 1763
- issued by British government
- closed west of Appalachian Mountains to colonists
Reasons:
-high pop in east
-stopped growth of colonies
-fewer resources: less farmland, fur + lumber
SAVED ENGLAND LOT OF $$$ CUZ ARMY WASN’T FIGHTING N.A. WEST OF APPS.
Stamp Act
•England collected $$$ by selling stamps that had to be purchased and attached to
- all printed materials in colonies
- land deeds
- legal documents
- marriage licenses
- newspapers
- playing cards
Stamp Act Repealed
•Colonists HATED it! Colonists: -protested -boycotted goods -tarred + feathered tax collectors
Declaratory Act
- stated colonists still under Parliament’s control
* Parliament’s way to show power after they repealed Stamp Act (lol not)
Quartering Act
- required colonists to provide shelter to British soldiers
- colonists believed this was a way England taxed them without calling it a tax
- brits could save $, eat + watch colonists
Townshend Acts of 1767
Parliament taxed goods such as: -glass -tea (not repealed in 1770) -paint -lead -paper -silk Led to Boston Massacre
writs of assistance
customs officials used special search warrants to help collect taxes + stop smuggling
-agents could search any home, ship or warehouse without reason
Pontiac (1763)
- Ottawa Chief who organized Native Americans
- attacked for 2 years
- destroyed most British forts along frontier
- defeated at Fort Detriot
Boston Massacre
•March 5, 1770
•Colonists taunted + snowballs filled with ice and rocks at British soldiers
•The British shot into the crowd because someone yelled “FIRE!”
•5 colonists died
-Crispus Attucks was an African American sailor
John Adams
The MA lawyer who defended the British soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre
The Tea Act
- British India Tea Company could sell DIRECTLY to colonists
- Colonists objected and REFUSED to buy tea
- BOYCOTT
- refused to unload tea from ships
The Boston Tea Party
•December 16, 1773 •Sons Of Liberty... -dressed as Mohawk Indians -tossed 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor (worth $75,000) •Led to Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
#1- No ships could enter or leave Boston Harbor until the $75,000 for the TEA dumped in harbor was paid back #2- Cancelled MA Charter - no town meetings #3- All trials of MA officials (if charged w/ criminal offense) moved to BRITAIN #4- Quartering Act - British soldiers moved into colonists' QUARTERS GOVERNOR Hutchinson OUT, GENERAL Gage IN
Sugar Act (April 1764)
Parliament set duties on foreign sugar, textiles and other goods entering the colonies
Redcoats
A term used by colonists referring to British troops
Charles Townshend
The British finance minister in 1766 who was the author of the Townshend Acts
Committee’s Of Correspondence
The groups were formed by the colonists to share information about resistance to Britain
