Acts & Duties (The American Revolution)

Question 1

Townshend Duties (1767)

Answer 1

• Townshend

- duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea that was imported to the colonies

Question 2

The New Quartering Act (1774)

Answer 2

• North
• one of the Coercive Acts
• gave broader authority to military commanders seeking to house their troops

Question 3

The Impartial Administration of Justice Act (1774)

Answer 3

• North
• one of the Coercive Acts
• provided for the transfer to Britain of murder trials

Question 4

The Massachusetts Government Act (1774)

Answer 4

• North
• one of the Coercive Acts
• allowed the royal governor to appoint & remove most civil officials
• town meetings could not be held without his permission

Question 5

Boston Port Act (1774)

Answer 5

• North
• one of the Coercive Acts
• closed Boston to all trade until the destroyed tea had been paid for

Question 6

The Quebec Act (1774)

Answer 6

• North
• placed authority in the hands of a governor without an elected assembly and limited trial by jury
• designed to improve British governance over Quebec

Question 7

Tea Act (1773)

Answer 7

• North
• enabled the East India Company to export tea to the colonies without paying duties to the British government
• colonists would continue paying the tea duties imposed under the Townshend Duties

Question 8

New York Restraining Act (1767)

Answer 8

• Townshend
• one of the Townshend duties
• took away the right of the colonial government in New York to pass its own bills

Question 9

Stamp Act (1765)

Answer 9

• Grenville
• a tax on documents
• its payment being confirmed by the affixation of a stamp

Question 10

Currency Act (1764)

Answer 10

• Grenville
• placed a ban on colonial paper money
• colonial debts must be paid in an acceptable currency
• e.g. British sterling or Spanish dollars

Question 11

Sugar Act (1764)

Answer 11

• Grenville
• reduced the duty on sugar & molasses from 6d to 3d per gallon
• added more products to the list of enumerated commodities; wine, silk & coffee
• any customs officials convicted of accepting a bribe would be fined £500 and disqualified from serving in any government job

Question 12

The Coercive Acts (1774)

Answer 12

• North
• the Boston Port Act
• the Massachusetts Government Act
• the Impartial Administration of Justice Act
• a new Quartering Act

Question 13

Proclamation Line (1763)

Answer 13

• marked the Appalachian Mountains where the colonists expand their colonies past

Question 14

Anti-Smuggling Measures (1763)

Answer 14

• enforcement of customs duties
• smuggling cases were tried in court
• the end of salutary neglect