Conflicts Between The Colonists And The British Flashcards
Proclamation of 1763
British law that banned English settlements west of the appellation Mountains
- it ordered settlers to leave Ohio Valley which upset the colonists
- King George the 3 made this law
- 2nd
What is Pontiacs rebellion?
May 1763 chief Pontiac forces attacked fort Detroit to prevent settlements
-1st
Sugar act
Tax on sugar and molasses
- also controlled smuggling by searching ships
- herhurt new England’s business
- 3rd
Committees of correspondence
It was a group of committees that contacted towns and colonies and shared ideas and information on the British laws and to to challenge them
- Sam Adams
- no taxation without representation
- 4th
Stamp act
A tax/acts that required colonist to pay for a stamp or seal when they bought paper items
- first tax directed at the individual colonists
- 5th
Stamp act Congress
Delegates from nine colonies met in New York, issued a declaration of the stamp act. This involved the sons of liberty.
- pressure to repeal
- to boycott
- against their rights and liberties
- 6th
declaratory act
The British repealed the stamp act but then decided that Parliament had the power to make the laws
-7th
Townshend acts
Parliament place taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
- boycott
- Also allow rights of assistance
- 8th
Non-importation acts
Colonists agreed not to import goods
- daughters of liberty
- Sam Adams
- mercy Otis Warren
- 9th
Boston massacre
Colonist and British soldier Had an argument, the soldier shot a person they protested and shot more
- Christos Attucks
- John Adams
- Sam Adams
- Paul revere
- 10th
The Tea act
Passed a tax that lowered the tax on tea while making money
- British East India Company sold cheap tea directly to the colonist
- colonists thought that the mother monopoly would put them out of business
- 11th
Boston tea party
The sons of liberty wanted ships to leave the harbor but they did not so they disguised them selfs as Indians and dumps tea overboard
-12th
Intolerable/coercive acts
Parliament punished Boston by
- closing the harbor
- canceled the Massachusetts charter
- royal officials were accused of crime
- quartering act: forced to house British soldiers
- Quebec act: have large amounts of land to Quebec(France)
- 1774
- 13th
Put these in order
- sugar act
- intolerable acts
- boston massacre
- Townshend acts
- stamp act
- declaratory act
- proclamation of 1763
- Boston tea party
- committees of correspondence
- stamp act congress
- non importation act
- tea act
- Pontiac’s rebellion
Pontiac's rebellion Proclamation of 1763 Sugar act Committees of correspondence Stamp act Stamp act congress Declaratory act Townshend acts Non importation acts Boston massacre Tea act Boston tea party Intolerable acts
External taxes
Tax from overseas
