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23 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 govenors | approveed or vetoed laws |
| assemblies | created laws |
| courts | upheld laws |
| James 2nd | took control over both the colonies and England |
| effects of the English Bill of Rights | reduced the power of the king |
| goods traded | beef flour sugar manufactored goods rum iron molasses slave |
| mercantilism | a system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade |
| navigaton acts | colonies could only: trade with England, ship using English ships, & all goods must be passed through English ports |
| colonists reaction to the navigation acts | started to smuggle |
| the great awakening | a religious movement that promoted political and spiritual equality |
| the enlightenment | taught that equality and natural rights couldn't be taken away |
| French and Indian war | France England Native Americans |
| proclamiation act of 1763 | forbidded Brithish settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| cheif Pontiac | Indian leader who led the fight against Brithish settlers in the Ohio Valley |
| why tax the colonies | 1) to pay the deubt from the French and Indian war 2) have a standing army for the colonies |
| sugar act | taxed sugar and molasses |
| England's reactions | crack down on smuggling |
| stamp act | *paid for most of the paper goods sold * repealed in 1766 |
| tonshed act | *taxed paper, glass, lead, paint, and tea *parts of the act were repealed in 1768 |
| 4 responces | 1) protest 2) oycotts 3) increased smuggling 4)violence |
| "phrase" used | "No Taxation Without Representation" |
| propaganda | distortion of the truth used to make te British seem evil |
| Intolerable Acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
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