unit 3.3 flashcards

Question 1

What was salutary neglect?

Answer 1

parliamentary rules and laws were loosely/not enforced on the American colonies and trade; the colonists then ignored the places laws and started to form their own

Question 2

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 2

a series of laws passed by the British parliament in 1651 that imposed restrictions of colonial trade; declared what england and its colonies could import and export

Question 3

What did the Navigation Acts lead to?

Answer 3

smuggling and secret trade between other nations

Question 4

What was George Grenville’s plan?

Answer 4

Sugar Act 1764
Currency Act 1764
Stamp Act 1765
Quartering Acts 1765

Question 5

What was the Sugar Act of _?

Answer 5

put taxes on molasses, sugar, rum and other luxury goods in 1764

Question 6

What was the Stamp Act of _?

Answer 6

required a stamp on all paper; newspapers, documents, playing cards, dice, novels, poems, essays, etc

Question 7

What was the Quartering Act of _?

Answer 7

stated in 1765 that British soldiers could live in a colonists house; the colonists would have to pay for the soldiers and themselves to live in their own houses

Question 8

What was the Currency Act of _?

Answer 8

prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency; couldn’t make any new money at all

Question 9

What was virtual representation?

Answer 9

elected members of a representative body do not represent a specific area ( the colonies ) but represent the nation ( colonies and Britain )

Question 10

Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?

Answer 10

American colonists who supported the patriot cause; used threats, protests, and acts of violence to intimidate loyalists

Question 11

What was the patriot cause?

Answer 11

rebelling against British monarchical control

Question 12

What and when was the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 12

1765
to petition the King of England and the repeal of the Stamp Act

Question 13

What was the Declaratory Act of _?

Answer 13

that the British had the right to tax them and implement rules on them whenever they wanted because they are stronger and are in control in 1766

Question 14

What were the Townshend Acts of _?

Answer 14

1767
taxes on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper, tea and other imported British goods to the colonies

Question 15

How did the colonists create economic tension?

Answer 15

they did not buy British imported goods, for example: women would make their own clothes and tea would be smuggled from other nations such as the dutch or they made their own

Question 16

What and when was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 16

a street fight in March 1770 between a patriot “mob” harassing a squad of British soldiers

Question 17

Who defended the British soldiers who killed the men in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

they were defended and pleaded not guilty by John Adams

Question 18

What and when was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 18

where American colonists dressed as Indians threw 345 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in 1773 by the Sons of Liberty after the Tea Act

Question 19

What was the Tea Act of _?

Answer 19

a tax break on tea in 1773; tea was made cheaper than the smuggled tea from other places

Question 20

What was the Quebec Act of _?

Answer 20

1774
increased political freedoms for Catholics

Question 21

What were the Intolerable Acts of _?

Answer 21

four laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party; also known as the Coercive Acts of 1774

Question 22

What were the Committees of Corresponce?

Answer 22

system of inter-colonial assembly communication; exchange of letters about potential British threats

Question 23

What was the Massachusetts Circular Letter?

Answer 23

that Parliament had no right to tax Americans, bc they had no representation; by Samuel Adams in 1768 in reaction of the Townshend Acts of 1767

Question 24

What were the Letters from a farmer in Massachusetts?

Answer 24

townshend acts were illegal because all they did was raise revenue, a power that only colonial assemblies should have