Chapters 5-6 Flashcards
During the Seven Years’ War, Britain treated the colonies as their
ally
After the Seven Years’ War, London insisted that the colonists play
a subordinate role to the mother country and help pay for the protection the British provided.
Members of the British Parliament had
virtual representation
The colonists argued London could not tax them because
they were underrepresented in Parliament.
threatened the profits of colonial merchants.
The Sugar Act of 1764 and a revenue act
was a direct tax on all sorts of printed materials.
The Stamp Act of 1765
was wide-reaching and offended virtually every free colonist.
stamp act
the first great drama of the Revolutionary era and the first major split between the colonists and Great Britain over the meaning of freedom.
Opposition to the Stamp Act
American leaders viewed the British empire as
an association of equals in which free settlers overseas enjoyed the same rights as Britons at home.
met in 1765 to endorse Virginia’s House of Burgesses’ resolutions.
stamp act congress
big player of stamp act congress
patrick henry
No word was more frequently invoked by critics of the Stamp Act than
“liberty.”
A Committee of Correspondence was created in Boston and other colonies to
exchange ideas about resistance.
were organized to resist the Stamp Act and to enforce a boycott of British goods.
sons of liberty
London repealed the Stamp Act, but issued the
declaratory act
Two groups in the Carolinas were known as
regulators
The South Carolina Regulators consisted of
wealthy backcountry residents who protested their underrepresentation in the colonial assembly and the lack of local governments.
The North Carolina Regulator
s mobilized small farmers upset with corrupt local government run by elites.
defeated the North Carolina Regulators at the battle of Alamance (1771), which ended their protests.
NC Militia
imposed taxes on imported goods.
1767 Townshend Acts
By 1768, colonies were again
boycotting brit goods
ather than rely on British goods, colonists relied on
omespun clothing; use of American goods came to be seen as a symbol of American resistance.
strongly supported the boycott.
strongly supported the boycott.
The March 1770 conflict between Bostonians and British troops left five Bostonians, including a mixed-race sailor named Crispus Attucks, dead.
boston massacure
The boycott ended after the Townshend duties were
repealed; only tax on tea
convinced many settlers that England was succumbing to the same pattern of political corruption and decline of liberty that afflicted other countries.
The treatment of John Wilkes and the rumors of Anglican bishops being sent to America
was in financial crisis, and the British government decided to market the company’s Chinese tea in North America.
East India Company
was intended to aid the East India Company and to defray the costs of colonial government.
tea act
