Road to revolution Flashcards
The Proclamation Line
-Pur:Separate the native Americans from the colonists
-Native Americans to the west and colonists to the East.
-Colonists wanted more land for settlement and tobacco
The sugar act
Pur: pay off debt form French and Indiana war.
-made molasses and sugar prices drop by half
-price is actually more because of previous bribery but now customs are more strict so the price doubled
- colonists= mad
The stamp act
Pur: pay off debt from French and Indian war
-tax on stamps which were used in all legal documents
- if colonists did not obey they could be fined or tried without jury
-colonists = unfair/mad
The stamp act Congress
Pur:to boycott English goods
-9 of the 12 colonies met in New York and told merchants to boycott English goods
-worked English sales in America droped by 300000 pounds
-eventually England stoped stamp act
The declatory act
-England passes act saying that they can make Americas laws.
-colonists mad because they wanted a compromise where they would follow parliaments laws but they also wanted their own laws made by colonial legislaters.
The Townshend Acts
-passed by parliament and treasury leader Charles Townshend
heavy taxes on imported goods (lead glass paper paint and tea)
-reorganized Americas custom service so that it was easy for English offices to seize a ship who had broken a small rule or law
-Had governor of New York (British) veto any laws passed by NY Legislature until they supplied troop Brits with food and housing
- this law led to boycott and 40%drop in imported British goods in America
Boston Massacre
British troops sent to enforce taxes and control colonists were pelted by snowballs with glass and stones in them by drunk colonists
-brits got confused and fired killing 5 colonists
-first to die was Crispus Atticus a African American
-Sam Adams inflated and spread the story through newspapers
Boston tea party
- Lord North let East India company sell tea without a tax so they got a monopoly
-this put other merchants out of business and they couldn’t make money smuggling any more
-protest arranged by Sam Adams and they dressed up as native Americans and through 342 chests of tea in the harbor