Acts Of British Parliament,1763-1775

Question 0

Sugar Act 1764

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Taxed the import of sugar, wine,coffee,molasses, and other goods.Allowed British officers, not colonial judges and juries, to try offenders Barred colonies from trading lumber andiron to countries offer to Britain

Question 1

Proclamation of 1763

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Declared that American colonist would not be permitted to establish new settlements west of line drawn though the Appalichan mountains

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Stamp Act 1765

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Required colonist to ad direct tax on all paper used. Colonist had to used stamped paper from London for all printed materials

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Quartering Act 1765

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Made colonists house British troops and provide them with weapons, food, and materials

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Declaratory Act 1766

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Declared Parliament the right to make new laws

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Townshend Act 1767

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Taxed the important of paper, paint, glass and tea cut tea taxes in Britan and Setup British courts in the colonies act

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Tea Act 1773

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Tried to help the British east Idia company by shipping its surplus tea to the colonies to sell below the price of colonial merchants

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Intolerable Acts 1774

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Closed the Bostons part to all trade except for food,fuel and provisions from British troops Expanded power of British appointed govenor and a pointed a new governing council in Massachusetts moved trials of British officials

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Democracy

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a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

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Self government

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1.
government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
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Manga Carter

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Definition of MAGNA CARTA. 1 : a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede. 2 : a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.

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The English Bill of Rights

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Declaration of Rights, declaring the rights and liberties of the subjects and settling the succession in William III and Mary II.

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Mercantilism

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belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

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French and Indian war

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French and Indian War definition. A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years’ War, which was then underway in Europe.

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Ohio River Valley

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The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Sons of Liberty

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The Sons of Liberty was an organization of dissidents that originated in the North American British colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government.

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Daughters of Liberty

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The Daughters of Liberty were a successful Colonial American group, established in the year 1765, that consisted of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.

Question 17

Boston Massacre

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A violent attack that took place between the minute men and the British Soldiers and nobody knows who shot/hit and began the attack but led to five deaths

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Paul Revere

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Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution.

Question 19

Battle of Lexington and Concord

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The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists’ military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.

Question 20

Virginia Resolution

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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.

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Continental Congress

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The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations.

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Common Sense

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He knowing of something, knowledge that comes knowing as ordinary or to have a certain understanding

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Natural Rights

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Are the rights people are born with such as life, liberty, freedom and to be happy

Question 24

Inedible rights

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Rights that are taken away because of dumb mistakes or kings wanting too much power