Chapm7 Flashcards
The colonial economy should be carefully controlled to serve the Mother’s country’s needs
The British theory of mercantilism by which the colonies governed held that
By inhibiting the development of banking and paper currencies the colonies was…
One of the ways in which mercantilism harmed the colonial economy was
What happened when the passed the sugar act?
Tax on sugar to raise revenue, also stricter enforcement on the navigation acts and crackdown on smuggling. (Violators tried in admiralty courts)
Admiralty courts
In British law, special admiration courts designed to handle maritime cases without a jury. Both the sugar act and the stamp act provided for typing offender in the hated admiralty courts
When was the sugar act passed?
1764
Courts without jury and has crown chosen judges?
Admiralty courts
Define mercantilism
The economic theory that all parts of the economy should be coordinated for the good of the whole state. Hence, the colonial economics should be subordinated for the benefit of an 3mpire.
When was the quartering act passed and what was it
1765 and colonists required to provide food and housing for British soldiers
When Was the stamp act passed and what was it? Was it passed with consent?
1765,;and it placed a tax on a variety of legal documents and items
Passed without consent of the colonial legislators
Colonial responses to the stamp act
Then Britain’s responds to this
Virginia resolves by Patrick Henry in the house of burgesses(reiderates no taxation without representation)
England responds with virtual representation.
Stamp act congress, representatives from 9 complies meet to oppose British policies. Move towards inter colonial unity. First organized resistance amongst the colonies to British policy.
Sons of liberty: secret organization that at times used violence to disrupt enforcement of the act.
Who attacked royal officials with tar and feathering?
The sons of liberty
What does virtual representation state?
Means that parliament had in mind the interest of all the kings subjects no matter where they resided. Thus the colonists had virtual political representation
What did the navigation law say and when was it issued?
1650, and it said that all commerce flowing to and from the colonies could be transported only in British vessels.
What first around the resentment of the colonists and when was it?
Prime minister George Grenville aroused the resentment in 1763 by ordering the British navy to begin strictly enforcing the navigation laws. Also he secured from parliament the sugar act.
What were the boycotts?
Various colonists were issuing non importation agreements against British imports were the most affective form of resistance.
There was a huge drop in trade. Many British merchants were demanding parliament repeal the stamp act because they were loosing so much money.
Why did parliament vote to repeal the stamp act?
Because of the boycotts.== the nonimportation agreements.
What act was passed after the stamp act in 1766?
The declatory act in 1766: England says they have power over the colonies still
Who becomes the new chancellor of the exchequer and proposed his own revenue plan?
Charles townshed.
What was the Townsend act? When did it happen? Why did it happen? What happened as a result?
Tax on imports such as paper tea glass and other items. It happened in 1767. It happened because britain still had that debt after repealing the stamp act and Charles Townsend became the new chancellor and had his own revenue plan. As a result there was a lot of controversy because the money raised by the acts would be used to pay royal officials in the colonies. Previously they were paid by the colonial assemblies. And the colonists believed that if they were paid by the British then they would rule in favor of them too. ANOTHER part that angered the colonists was that they could search private homes by just getting a writ assistance. Rather than a warrant.
How big was the resistance to the townshed acts? How did they resist and what was the result? When were they repealed?
It was not as widespread as the other resistanc3s
John Dickinson “letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania argued “no taxation without representation”
England argues back that they have virtual representation
Colonists created the nonimportation and non consumption agreements
Boycott British goods, daughters of liberty organized spinning bees
England was loosing more money than they were generation so they repealed the townshed acts in 1770
Who wrote no taxation without representation?
John Dickinson in letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania
The coercive acts and the interoperable are
The same thing
In the colonies, how many troops did they have garrisoned
10000
What are the two major roots of the revolution?
Republicanism and threat to their rights
Define republicism
A just society in which all citizens willingly give up their private interests to the common good. Opposed to higharchy land authoritarian institutes such as aristocracy and monarchy
How was America governed at this time?
Mercantilism
