Chapter 5 - Imperial Breakdown 1763-1774

Question 1

Cherokee War

Answer 1

• Conflict.
• 1759-1761.
• Cherokee Indians vs colonist in Virginia southward.

Question 2

Pontiac’s War

Answer 2

• Conflict.
• 1763-1766.
• Indian uprising led by Pontiac of the Ottawas and Neolin of the Delawares.

Question 3

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 3

• Royal proclamation.
• Establishes boundary called the Proclamation Line roughly following the Appalachian Mountains.
• British settlements were only allowed on the eastern side of this line.

Question 4

Quartering Acts

Answer 4

• Acts of Parliament,

* Required colonists to provide supplies and quarters for the troops stationed in America.

Question 5

Sugar Act

Answer 5

• Law.
• 1764.
• Increased the restrictions on colonial commerce but halved the tax on molasses imports.
• Purpose was to increase revenue in the American colonies.

Question 6

republicanism

Answer 6

• Idea.

* Government must exercise power, but said power could overwhelm liberty.

Question 7

British Constitution

Answer 7

• The principles, procedures, and precedents that governed the operation of the British government.

Question 8

sovereignty

Answer 8

• The supreme authority of the state, including both the right to take life and to tax.

Question 9

Stamp Act

Answer 9

• Law.
• 1765.
• Purpose was to raise revenue in America.
• Taxed, stamped paper was required for legal documents, publications, and playing cards.

Question 10

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 10

• Meeting of delegates sent by 9 colonies.
• October 1765.
• In response to the Stamp Act.
• Resulted in adoption of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
• Formally petitioned against the Stamp Act.

Question 11

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

Answer 11

• Asserted that the Stamp Act and other taxes imposed on the colonists without their consent were unconstitutional.

Question 12

Sons of Liberty

Answer 12

• Organization.
• Led by Samuel Adams.
• Formed to oppose the Stamp Act.

Question 13

Declaratory Act

Answer 13

• Law.
• 1766.
• Accompanied repeal of the Stamp Act.
• Asserted that Parliament had the authority to legislate for the colonies in all cases.

Question 14

Townshend Duty Act of 1767

Answer 14

• Imposed taxes on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass.

Question 15

nonimportation movement

Answer 15

• Tactic for the colonists.
• Refusal to but British exports in the colonies; a boycott.
• Purpose was to pressure Britain.

Question 16

Boston Massacre

Answer 16

• Incident.
• British troops stationed in Boston—unprovoked—fired on townspeople.
• March 5, 1770.
• Preceded by months of increasing friction between British troops and American civilians.

Question 17

committees of correspondence

Answer 17

• Committees formed in the colonies.

* Purpose was to inform Americans regarding British measures that would affect them.

Question 18

Regulators

Answer 18

• Vigilante groups.
• In western parts of North and South Carolina.
• 1760s and 1770s.
• S.C. Regulators combatted outlaws.
• N.C. Regulators concerned themselves with high taxes and court costs.

Question 19

Tea Act of 1773

Answer 19

• Permitted the East India Company to sell through agents in America without paying the taxes customarily collected in Britain.
• Reduced retail price.

Question 20

Boston Tea Party

Answer 20

• Incident.
• December 16, 1773.
• Bostonians disguised as Indians and destroyed £9000 worth of tea belonging to the British East India Company.
• Purpose was to prevent payment of the tax.

Question 21

Coercive Acts

Answer 21

• Legislation.
• 1774.
• Included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act of 1774.

Question 22

Quebec Act

Answer 22

• Law.
• 1774.
• Appointed government for Canada.
• Enlarged the boundaries of Quebec.
• Confirmed the privileges of the Catholic Church.

Question 23

Intolerable Acts

Answer 23

• American term for the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act.

Question 24

Suffolk Resolves

Answer 24

• Militant resolves.
• 1774.
• Adopted by representatives in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, including Boston.
• Response to the Coercive Acts.

Question 25

First Continental Congress

Answer 25

• Meeting of delegates from most of the colonies.
• 1774.
• Held in response to the Coercive Acts.
• Endorsed the Suffolk Resolves.
• Adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
• Agreed to establish the Continental Association.

Question 26

Continental Association

Answer 26

• Agreement.
• Adopted by the First Continental Congress.
• In 1774.
• Response to the Coercive Acts.
• Cut off trade with Britain until the objectionable measures were repealed.

Question 27

Whigs

Answer 27

• Name used by advocates of colonial resistance to British measures during the 1760s and 1770s.

Question 28

Tories

Answer 28

• Derisive term.

* Applied to loyalists in America who supported the king and Parliament just before and during the American Revolution.