Midterm- Acts

Question 1

quebec act

Answer 1

Extended Canada’s southern border, cutting off lands claimed by several colonies

Question 2

Stamp Act

Answer 2

Tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and most other printed materials
Direct tax- required official government stamp to be printed and attached to these materials to show tax had been paid
First time parliament imposed direct tax
Colonists Reaction:
Wide spread and extremely against act
Directly affect powerful people in colonies
Led to stamp act congress
Delegates from 9 colonies
James Otis “No taxation without representation
Protested by sons of liberty

Question 3

Intolerable Act

Answer 3

Known as coercive acts in Great Britain
Coerce: force
Attempted to punish Boston because of Tea Party
Undermined independence of colonial government
British general Thomas Gage was appointed governor of Mass by Royal Crown

Question 4

Quartering Act

Answer 4

Also known as the Billeting Act

Required colonists to provide housing and supplies for troops in America

Question 5

Townshend act

Answer 5

Duties on imported goods- lead, glass, paper, paint and tea (valued imports from Britain)
Thought indirect tax to the colonists would appease them more
Revenue used to support troops, royal governors and judges
American response
Being taxed without consent
Don’t import paper and paint from Great Britain
Great Britain sent troops to America to put down violent resistance to these acts

Question 6

declatory acts

Answer 6

Purpose: reassert authority over colonies
Said parliament had authority to make laws that applied to colonists “in all cases whatsoever”
Put in place the same day the Stamp Act was repealed

Question 7

Sugar Act

Answer 7

Replaced the Molasses Act
Lowered duty on foreign molasses
George Grenville’s idea
Chancellor of Exchequer
Treasurer
Tax on sugar, coffee, wine
Lowered taxes from Molasses but now enforced
Custom officers were assigned
Courts created to collect duties and prosecute smugglers
Hoped these would encourage colonists to pay the tax

Question 8

Molasses Act

Answer 8

High taxes on foreign molasses

Replaced by Sugar Act

Question 9

Navigation Acts

Answer 9

Required colonies to sell certain goods only to England, like sugar, tobacco, cotton
Had to use English ships for all trade - angered New England
Not enforced regularly - smuggling

Question 10

Act of Toleration

Answer 10

First legislative act of religious toleration

Permitted religious freedom only for all that believed in the Trinity (Christians)