Chapter 7: Road To Revelution Flashcards
George Greenville
Navigation acts (only trade with England) enforced. Sugar act 1794? Currency act 1794. Quartering act Stamp acts
Radical Whigs
Feared threat to liberty posed by monarch powers and ministers warned citizens to be in guard of corruption
Admerility courts
People were true without jury. Assumed guilty
Virtual represent ion
The idea that because all colonists are legally British, they are represented in parliament. India didn’t have representatives either
1765 stamp act congress
Drew up statement of rights and complaints to the king. Ignored
Sons of liberty resiste stamp act
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Non importation agreements
Encouraged homemade goods boycott British. British lost money repealed stamp act
Townshend acts
Light tax on major staple items. Sent tax collectors to make people pay. Given writs of assistance to search for smuggled goods. Indirect custom duty still without consent
Boston massacre March 5, 1770
Over exaggerated, colonist harassed redcoats. Crisps Atticus shot
Ship gaspee incident 1772
British ship followed smuggling ship –> burned. Direct fire to British
Comitee of correspondence
Warn neighbors about British heighten patriotism. Exchanged letters to spread the spirit of resistance
Tea acts
British east India company tea even with tax was cheaper than other teas sill wouldn’t buy it cause they had no say. –> Boston tea party. Closed port of boson passed intolerable acts
Intolerable acts:
Port shut down
Government act
Quartering act
Administration of justice act. No jury
First continental congress
started army In colony. British heard they were stockpiling went to concord. Paul revere warned colonists
2nd continental congress
Didn’t want war wanted respect and king George didn’t care.
