Semester Final pt. 1 Flashcards
British declaration that forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts.
Colonists’ Reactions:
colonists settled west anyways
(SCREW YOU GREAT BRITAIN!)
Proclamation of 1763
colonists could not coin their own currency- had to use British pound
Colonists’ Reactions
opposed-interrupted trade especially with French
Currency Act
placed tax on sugar, molasses, rum, indigo and other products
Colonists’ Reactions:
- hurt businesses
- threat to rights
Sugar Act
act requiring colonists to house and feed British soldiers
Colonists’ Reactions:
- anxiety
- colonists feared Parliament intended to use troops to control their movements and restrict their freedom
Quartering Act
law that required all legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards to carry an official stamp to show that tax was paid
*REPEALED
Colonists’ Reactions:
- petitioned the King
- boycott British goods
- Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act
- placed duties (tax) on imports (ie glass, paper, silk, lead and tea) to the colonies
- allowed British officers to issue writs of assistance (search warrants)-search for illegal and smuggled goods
- REPEALED DUE TO BOYCOTTS
Colonists’ Reactions
- boycott
- protests-MA
- Daughters of Liberty
Townshend Act
- British soldiers arrive in Boston
- colonists and youth surrounded British soldiers in the State House
- crowd grew bigger-mob
- soldiers feared for their safety and fired-killed 5
- resulted in a trial in which John Adams defended the British troops
Colonists Reactions:
-John Adams defended soldiers-aquitted
-colonists saw Boston Massacre as a sign of
British tyranny
Boston Massacre
- law gave the East Indian Company the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies
- restricted colonists from acting as shippers and merchants of tea
Tea Act
-the Sons of Libery, disguised as Native Americans, boarded British tea ships and broken and threw tea chests overboard- 342 chests to protest the Tea Act
colonists’ reaction:
- Committees of Correspondence were formed to secretly exchange info about British policies and American resistance
- protests and tea smuggling
- offered to pay for tea if Tea Act was repealed- refused by Parliament
Boston Tea Party
- closed Boston port
- banned town meetings
- replaced elected government into an appointed one
- increased royal governor’s power
- British soldiers cannot be tried by colonists
Colonists Reactions:
- colonies sent food and money to Boston
- refuse to buy from Britain
- First Continental Congress
- colonies trained troops
- committee of correspondence
- boycott
- provincial Congress in MA
- militia prepared to fight
Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Act
FIRST BATTLE -April 19, 1775 700 British v 70 militiamen -no one knows who fired first -8 militiamen dead -colonists retreated and British continued to Concord
Lexington
ruler of Great Briain during the American Revolution
King George III
aliases Fat George, George (pronounced Hore-Hay), Farmer George, Mad King George)
During the Battle of _________, the Patriots steadily wore down British defenses, forcing Cornwallis to surrender to Washington on October 20, 1781?
Yorktown
battle considered turning point of the war
Saratoga
what countries came to America’s aid
France and Spain
when was the declaration of independence signed?
july 4, 1776
who wrote the declaration of independence
thomas jefferson
philosopher that influenced the declaration of independence’s “inalienable rights”
Locke
first plan of gov for the USA
articles of confederation
weaknesses of articles of confederation
no enforcing laws, no collecting taxes, no regulating trade, no amending articles, no creating courts, no executive branch or judicial branch
Great Compromise
Senate:2 per state
House: proportional by population
Supreme law of the land
Constitution
to edit/ change constitution is an
amendment
the purpose of the Bill of Rights
secure liberties of people
1st amendment
speech, press, assembly, religion, petition
division of powers between federal and state is called:
federalism
stops one branch from becoming too powerful
checks and balances
two parts of Congress
house and senate
bicameral legislature
two houses
what compromise settled the dispute between federalists and anti-federalists allowing for ratification of the constitution
Bill of Rights
the term of president
4 years
president is elected through__________________
electoral college
purpose of executive branch
enforce laws
how does executive branch check the legislatie branch
signing/vetoing bills
