Test 2 Flashcards
Persuade to do something by using force or threats
Coerce
Organization formed to exchange information about British policies and American resistance
Committee of correspondence
Organization of colonial woman form to protest British policies
Daughters of liberty
Import tax
Duty(customs)
Formal complaint
Grievance
The right not to be held in prison without first being charged for a specific crime, constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
Habeaus corpus
Americans who supports the British
Loyalist
Organized body of armed volunteers
Minutemen
Americans who sided with the rebels
Patriot
Introduction to declaration, constitution, and other official documents
Preamble
To cancel
Repeal
Secret society formed to oppose British policies
Sons of liberty
Court orders that allows officials to make undefined searches
Writs of assistance
Proclamation that made law against colonists to settle to the west of the appellation Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Required colonist to put British soldiers in their homes and to provide soldiers food and stuff
Quartering act
Parliament put indirect tax on sugar
Sugar act
-put tax on every paper purchased
Caused colonists too feel like their freedom has been threatened
No taxation without representation
Stamp act
- Made parliament have complete authority over colonies
- passed when parliament took away stamp act
Declactory act
- small indirect taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea
- Gave soldiers right to enter home searching for illegal goods
- suspended New York assemblies
- colonists say it went against natural rights
- protesting thought the colonies
Townsend acts
-Put tax on tea
-caused Boston tea party
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Tea act
- Reaction to the Boston tea party
- forced colonists to pay for the Tea they lost
- colonies now have a military governer
- closed bostons port
Intolerable acts
Why did the southern states refuse to let slaves fight?
Feared they would revolt
What happened to slavery in the north during the war?
Took steps to end slavery
How did the Americans pay for the war?
- Congress had to plead for money from state
- printed paper money that had very little value
Organized campaign to refuse to bye,or use certain goods and services
Boycott
What were the articles of Confederation? Why were they written and when?
The articles of Confederation was a document that was supposed to unite the state under one central government. It was written in 1777 after the revolutionary war.
Describe the branches of the articles of confederation
It had one branch of government which was Congress. Their roles were to declare war, raise an army and navy,print money, deal with foreign nations, and make laws
Describe the design of federal and state government under the articles of confederation
Federal government had very little power, state government had very high power
Explain what the land ordinance of 1785 was, and describe three key features of this ordinance
The land ordinance of 1785 divided lands in the six square mile townships. Each township was divided into one room I’ll grades with three sections. One section beach township was for education
