Chapter 5 Flashcards
Stamp act
Parliament’s 1765 requirement that revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter, documents, and playing cards
Sugar Act
1764 decision by parliament to tax refined sugar and many other colonial products
No taxation without representation
The rallying cry of opponents to the 1765 stamp act. The slogan decried the colonists’ lack of representation in parliament
Sons of liberty
Organization formed by Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and other radicals in response to the stamp act
Regulators
Groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies
Boston Massacre
Clash between british soldiers and a boston mob
Intolerable Acts
Four parliamentary measures in reaction to the Boston Tea Party that forced payments for the tea, disallowed colonial trials of British soldiers, forced their quartering in private homes, and reduced the number of elected officials in Massachusetts
Continental Congress
First meeting of representatives of the colonies, held in philadelphia in 1774 to formulate actions against British policies
Common Sense
A pamphlet anonymously written by Thomas Paine in January 1776 that attacked the English principles of hereditary rule and monarchical government
Benedict Arnold
A traitours american commander who plan to sell out the american garrison at westpoint to the british. his plot was discovered before it would be executed before he joined the british army
Treaty paris
Signed on September 3,1783, the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, recognized American Independence from Britain, established the border between Canada and the United States, fixed the western border at the Mississippi river
What unified the colonist and what divided them at the time of the revolution?
The things that unified the colonists was that they all wanted liberty. The colonists wanted their rights back that Britain took from them. They believed that Britain didn’t have consent to tax them and that they should have the same freedom as the people from their motherland. But once the British empire revoked the Stamp act, some colonists didn’t fight for their independence and believed that they were safer inside the British empire.
How did new ideas of liberty contribute to tensions between the social classes in American colonies?
The new ideas of liberty contributed to tensions between the social class in American colonies because slaves were encouraged to escape by fleeing to the British army. Which wealthy people needed those slaves to keep things flowing. Southern loyalists also joined forces with the British army.
How did the actions of the British authorities help to unite the American colonies during the 1760s and 1770s?
The actions of the British authorities helped unite the American colonists during the 1760s and 1770s when they started to get taxed. During the Seven years war,Britain borrowed millions of dollars from the bank and was left in debt. So they thought it was only right for the colonists to help them with the damage and pay for it with the Navigation and Stamp act. The colonists became outraged over the new taxes and began to riot against the British empire.
