Chapter 7 Flashcards
Americans had to provide food and supplies to British troops stationed in the colonies
Quartering Act
Declared all of the colonies in open rebellion and suspended trade between North America and Britain
Prohibitory Act
Idea that British would protect the colonies and provide trade opportunities, but other than that, the colonies were left to their own devices
Salutary Neglect
Taxed virtually all printed material. Colonies argued “no taxation without representation”
Stamp Act
British government established regulations and restrictions on molasses. This was not enforced
Molasses Act
Designed to incorporate the French Canadians and their land into Britain’s colonial American Empire
Quebec Act
Intended to subordinate American capital to British capital by preventing American businessmen from turning raw materials into finished commodities
Wool, Hat, Iron Acts
Forbade colonists from printing their own currency and instead required them to use hard currency (gold and silver). All taxes had to be paid in hard currency as well.
Currency Act
Attempted to control sugar trade between colonies and the Spanish and French West Indies. Also, the British wanted to punish smugglers.
Sugar (Revenue) Act
Created to promote English Shipping and control colonial trade in regard to important crops and resources, which had to be shipped exclusively in British ships
Navigation Laws
Created when the British East India Company was given a monopoly of the tea trade.
Tea Act
Stated that Britain possessed the right to tax the colonists without challenge
Declaratory Act
Closed the port of Boston, required the trials of royal officials accused of serious crimes to be held in Britain, and limited citizens’ right to organize freely
Intolerable Acts
Created when Charles Townsend called for a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea
Townsend Tea Tax
Prohibited colonial migration and settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Occurred when a crowd of Bostonians attacked British troops; the British opened fire, killing and wounding about eleven of the provokers
Boston Massacre
King of England at the time of the American Revolution
George III
Documents that allowed custom officials to search colonial homes, businesses, and warehouses for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge
Writs of Assistance
Colonists who fought for independence from the British
Patriots
Distributed throughout the colonies and stated that the Townsend Acts needed to be replaced
Massachusetts Circular Letter
Defended the British soldiers who took part in the Boston Massacre; he won the trial and was able to get acquittals for most of them
John Adams
Document sent by the Second Continental Congress to the King England; they wanted him (for a second time) to consider colonial grievances
Declaration of Causes and Necessities of Taking Arms
After Bunker Hill, the Continental Congress sent the __ to the King of Britain because they wanted to end the hostilities.
Olive Branch Petition
Occurred when Bostonians disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded tea ships and proceeded to throw the cargo into the Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
