Pre-Revolution Flashcards
Who said “We have an old mother… She snubs us like children that can’t walk alone… She forgets we’re grown up and have a sense of our own?”
Benjamin Franklin
Period of time in which Americans gained a sense of identity?
Salutary Neglect
Tax placed on sugar and other imports by George Greenville?
Sugar Act
Line that kept colonists east of the Appalachians after winning the War of 1812?
Proclamation Line of 1763
Act which made every piece of paper require a stamp, causing colonists to pay excess taxes? This was introduced by who?
Stamp Act, George Grenville
Organization that responded to the excess taxations placed on the colonists in a radical manner? One of the heads of this organization was? They tried a more diplomatic approach, creating this to try to get the crown to reduce taxations?
Sons of Liberty, Sam Adams, and the Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Type of courts system that paid the judge for each conviction he made?
Admiralty courts
Type of representation given to the colonists during pre-revolutionary times?
Virtual representation
Method used by George III in a way of completely removing the colonists voice? He used it 435 times.
The Royal Veto
Acts which placed an indirect tax on paper, paint, lead, glass, and TEA?
Townshend Acts
Documents that allowed British authorities to search the homes of colonists?
Writs of Assistance
Case which lead to the belief that private property must have protection from unlawful search and seizures? “A mans house is his castle”
James Otis case
Play-write and founder of “Spinning Bees?”
Mercy Otis Warren
Event in which 5 colonists were killed by redcoats? They were defended by who in court?
Boston Massacre, John Adams
Groups formed to ignite passion and zeal in the colonists against the red coats? Started by who?
Committees of Correspondance, Sam Adams
Which acts put Boston under martial law, shut down the harbor, and implemented a new quartering act?
Intolerable Acts
Act which gave the French the OH river valley and allowed them to govern themselves?
Quebec Act
Meeting in which colonies began storing weapons and training militias? “Attack on one is an attack on all”
First Continental Congress
Poet who wrote about Paul Revere, giving him widespread fame?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
