Chapter 3 Flashcards
What what war does this remind you of?
- War is expensive
- The British king and parliament started taxing the colonies to pay their war debt
- Told colonist not to move past the line of proclamation of 1763
- Colonist felt the real reason Britain wanted to control them and take their money is through taxes
French and Indian war
What do this two facts represent?
The French and the British both practiced Mercantilism.
Prevented colonies from trading with anyone else except the mother country.
Mercantilism
What was happening?
- Colonist did not have representation in parliament
- Did not feel that parliament had the right to make them pay taxes
- Thought that the only people who could tax the, were their own colonial assemblies
British control
In order to regulate trade in the colonies, Great Britain issued a set of rules called the ————– —-
Navigation act
Want did the laws make the people do for the navigation act?
- Colonists were expected to use British-owned ships for all importing and exporting
- Certain goods (including rice ,tobacco ,and indigo) exported from colonies had to be sent to England first before they sent to the other countries
Results of the French and Indian war?
- The British government did not strictly enforce these laws until after the French and Indian war
- Colonists couldn’t smuggle that they used to
What is the sugar act?
- Designed to stop illegal trade with French and collect revenues to fund the war effort.
- smugglers were prosecuted in vice admiralty courts, which did Not use juries
What’s the currency act
- Mainly impacted southern colonies, including South Carolina
- Stopped the colonies from printing their own money
Why was the stamp act so important?
- This was a duty (a tax) on paper ( legal documents, playing card and newspapers)
- It was the first direct tax
- Colonists wanted the rights of their own colonists assemblies to impose taxes to continue
Why was the stamp act congress part of history?
Colonists argued they should not be subject to laws of parliament since it was so far away mad they did not not have representation in parliament
Colonists organized a boycotted on British goods that led to the repeal of the stamp act
How did the colonists react?
The sons and daughters of liberty- has a secret organization that helped to enforce boycotts against the British
- Sons of liberty persuaded and intimidated people to follow them.
- Daughters of liberty engaged in spinning bees and reused to buy British products finding substitutes instead
- They also wrote newspapers that contained propaganda against british rule
Who was Christopher Gadsdens
A wealthy merchant from Charles town and he was one of he first people to speak out against British taxes
How did the stamp act end?
After the stamp act was repealed, parliament issued the declaratory act
Declared parliament had “full power and authority to make laws… In case whatsoever
This was a act that this law allowed for 10,000 British troops to be permanently stationed in the colonies
Colonists viewed the British army as an obstacle to new land and a threat to their liberty
This is the Quartering act
Who was M. John Wilkes?
British parliament member who criticized the British government for its actions in the colonies.
Parliament shut down his newspaper and dismissed him from parliament
