Chapter 4 Sec 1 Flashcards
Who was the commander of the British troops and n America and also named governor of Massachusetts following The Boston Tea Party?
General Thomas Gage
What was an organization of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies who gathered in response to the Stamp Act and vowed not to pay any taxes without the consent of their colonial legislatures?
Stamp Act Congress
Who was the fugitive slave that killed during the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
Who was the Indian chief who raced settlements in the Great Lakes Valley because American settlers were moving onto Indian lands in great numbers?
Pontiac
What is another name for a search warrant used during colonial times?
Writ of Assistance
What was the act that prohibited settlements eat of the Appalachian mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What was the act that indirectly taxed tea, glass, lead and colors for paint on all American imports?
Townshend Acts
What was an underground organization of Boston citizens that staged riots and destroyed offices of royal officials?
Sons of Liberty
What act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in America?
Tea Act
What was an agreement by colonial merchants not to buy or import British goods?
Non-importation agreement
What was the act that required the colonial legislature to provide housing and supplies for the British troops stationed in America?
Quartering Act
What act forbade the colonists from issuing paper money and forcing them to pay taxes in gold or silver?
Currency act
What was the name of the act that placed a tax on molasses and sugar?
Sugar Act
What is 1 of the 2 names for a series of acts which were meant to punish the people of Massachusetts because of the Boston Tea Party?
Coercive Act
What is the name of the tax place on paper products?
Stamp Act
What were goods, like tobacco, that could only be sent to England?
enumerated
What was an economical and political theory where by a nation tries to gain greater wealth and power than its rivals?
Mercantilism
What was the event where British soldiers fired into an angry Boston crowd and killed a number of american colonists?
Boston Massacre
What was the event in Boston where colonists dressed like Indians, boarded ships and threw cargoes of tea into the bay?
Boston Tea Party
What is the Act whir stated that the British Parliament could pass laws for the colonies - which would include tax laws?
Declaratory Act
What was the major source of colonial trade which involved the colonies and Africa and the West Indies?
Triangle Trade
What was the popular slogan in the colonies that showed their displeasure with the taxes being passed on them and their lack of their legislative consent?
No taxation without representation
What was the colonial organization whose main function was to inform the other colonies what was happening in Massachusetts?
Committee of Correspondence
What are the 2 problems facing Britain after the French and Indian War?
Debt
Cost of defending new territory
What was an organization of delegates from 12 colonies, which demanded their rights as Englishmen - a change in British policies and would meet again if the laws that punished Massachusetts were not repealed?
!st Continental Congress
