US History- American Rev. 10/5/08
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VaraTC on October 5, 2008
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hermann, us history, columbusacademy, columbus academy, revolutionary war
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Created for test 10/6/08
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Writs of Assistance | Search warrents; a writ of assistance authorized customs officials to search for smuggled goods |
| "No Taxation Without Representation" | colonists believed that they had the right to send representatives to parliament to accept or deny issues; mainly taxation |
| Navigation Laws enforced 1763 | George III appoints George Grenville as first minister (for solving debt crisis); laws put more tight restrictions on shipping and trade in general |
| Proclamation Line of 1763 | stated that colonists must remain east of the Appalachian Mts. |
| Sugar Act of 1764 | reduces the tax imposed by Molasses Act, want to stop people from smuggling; increased power of courts; NO MORE JURIES (just judges appointed by the King of England) |
| Currency Act of 1764 | Prohibited colonies from issuing paper money; causes shortage of currency in colonies |
| Quartering Act of 1765 | Colonists forced to share hospitality w/ British troops, responsible for: room and board, food, and equipment and supplies.---Troops there to enforce tax and monitor smuggling |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | British parliament passed a law requiring colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers, including wills, newspapers, and pamphlets |
| Declaratory Act 1766 | Parliament affirms power to make laws; stamp act was repealed, but British still in firm control |
| Townshend Act of 1767 | Places duties on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint. --Pay salaries of governors and judges in the colonies (brits); required courts to provide customs officials w/ writs of assistance-----> Colonists issue non-importation boycott |
| Tea Act of 1773 | bailed out bankrupt East India company, direct sale of tea has to come through England, colonial merchants hurt, boycott on British Tea----> close ports (to stop British ships for Tea transport) |
| Intolerable Acts of 1774 | close Boston port until tea paid for (from the Boston Tea Party), created a crown-appointed government in the colonies (old governments lose power), expanded British power over courts, any English officials must be tried in England, quartering of troops, -----> leads to 1st Continental Congress |
| Stamp Act Congress | (October 1765)-- upheld the power of representative assemblies, not parliament, to tax the colonists and defend trial by jury--New York: Stamp Act repealled in 1766 (tax collectors hurt, textile ind hurt--b/c of boycott) |
| Boston Massacre | (1770) a pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of the resentment against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and to enforce the Townshend acts (1st important rebellion, 5 people killed, six wounded)---> causes repeal of Townshend Acts except for tea* |
| Sons of Liberty | small merchants, shopkeepers, and craftsmen, people who needed documents to conduct business and suffered from the stamp tax, established networks to organize boycotts of British goods (until Stamp Act repealed) |
| Boston Tea Party | (1773) Bostonians protested the Tea Act by dumping chests of tea into Boston Harbor---> Sons of Liberty board ships dressed as Indians and dump tea |
| Committees of Correspondence | Virginia assembly appointed (it) to monitor British policy and facilitate communication among colonies |
| 1st Continental Congress | all 13 colonies attended (except for Georgia; wanted to repeal "intolerable acts", passed resolutions to boycott consumption, importation, and exportation (to England) of British goods, close their ports, stops importation of slaves, sets up continental association... |
| The Continental Association | enforced ban through elected local committees, would expose violators of the boycott as traitors, eventual government as war progresses |
| Gaspee Incident | (1772) colonists burn British ship in Rhode Island---> leads to form the committee of correspondence |
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