Exam 1 Flashcards
No freeman can be taxed without his consent.
John Adams
Tension tension…if this be tension, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry
American war-making seemed to differ morally from British war-making…
Royster
The parliament may be deceived, they may have been misinformed by facts…
James Otis
Today we would say that many of the revolutionaries’ ancestors came to America to protect their orthodoxies…
Royster
If another tryal for Canada should take place…
James Otis
The late acquisitions in America as glorious as they have been…
James Otis
We further apprehend this tax to be unconstitutional.
John Adams
In the late war, the northern colonies not only rais’d their full quota of men…
James Otis
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment or sheet…
The Stamp Act
Here indeed opens to view a large field; but I must study brevity..
James Otis
To say the parliament is absolute and arbitrary… The parliament cannot make 2 and 2; 5…
James Otis
Sir, in all the calamities which have even befallen this country..
John Adams
For every pack of such cards…and for every pair of such dice…and for every paper, commonly called a pamphlet…
The Stamp Act
And it is hereby further enacted, that all forfeitures and penalties hereby inflicted shall be divided…
The Stamp Act
That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a People…
Declarations of The Stamp Act Congress
Another grievance to be considered is the alarming attempt of the people of Old England to restrain our manufactures.
Silas Downer
That the duties imposed by several late Acts of Parliament..
Declarations of The Stamp Act Congress
That the Restrictions imposed by several late Acts of Parliament…
Declarations of The Stamp Act Congress
That as the Profits of the Trade of these Colonies ultimately center in Great Britain..
Declarations of The Stamp Act Congress
No tax (scutage) except by the general council. “No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom.
Magna Charta
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.
US Constitution
If this doctrine of the material authority of one country over another…
Silas Downer
A mob reliable of saucy-boys…
John Adams
The ground we first formed upon was something elevated, and commanded…
Frederick MacKenzie
This claim of the common to a sovereignty over us, is founded by them on their being the Mother Country.
Silas Downer
That the foundation of English Liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council…
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
Riding through town warning
Threatened if doesn’t confess
Paul Revere
As the Country for many miles round Boston and in the Neighborhood of Lexington and Concord…
Frederick MacKenzie
Also the Act passed the same session for establishing the Roman Catholic Religion in the province of Quebec…
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit…
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
There was a general Muster of all the Neighboring Militia only the day before…
Frederick MacKenzie
The parent country, with undeviating prudence, and virtue, attentive to the first principles of colonization…
Dickenson
It is conceived by many, that the expedition to Concord for the destruction of Military Stores…
Frederick MacKenzie
In the course of our inquiry, we find many infringements and violations of the foregoing rights…
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
You will therefore…changing names…
Dickenson
