Chapter 4-5 Test
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Mr Hartley's AP US history chapter 4 and 5 review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Governors | these people had most of the power in the colonies, they were elected by the king and were usually brough up to power by connections with the aristrocracy |
| Albany Plan of Union | proposed by Ben Franklin. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes" |
| Seven Years War | Was started by George Washington. Was settleed by the Treaty of Paris |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | British made some substantial overseas gains at the expense of France and, to a lesser extent, Spain.[3] Preferring to keep Guadeloupe, France gave up Canada and all of its claims to the territory east of the Mississippi River to Britain.[4] Spain ceded Florida to the British, but later received New Orleans and French Louisiana from the British; Manila and Cuba were restored to Spain. France retained Saint Pierre and Miquelon and recovered Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint Lucia in exchange for Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago going to the British. In India, the French lost out to the British, receiving back its "factories" (trading posts), but agreeing to support the British client governments, as well as returning Sumatra and agreeing not to base troops in Bengal. The British garrison on the Mediterranean island of Minorca was returned to her control, having been captured by the French at the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. |
| Proclamation Act 1763 | established that the colonies would not try to expand any longer to the west |
| Navigation Acts | were a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between Great Britain and its Colonies |
| Mercantilism | increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests |
| Molasses Act 1733 | imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on molasses from non-British colonies. Parliament passed the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.The Act was not passed for the purpose of raising revenue, but rather to regulate trade by making British products cheaper than those from the French West Indies. |
| Sugar Revenue Act | was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764 |
| Stamp Act | requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents. Those that pay the tax receive an official stamp on their documents.A variety of products have been covered by stamp acts including playing cards, patent medicines, cheques, mortgages, contracts and newspapers. The items often have to be physically stamped at approved government offices following payment of the duty, although methods involving annual payment of a fixed sum or purchase of adhesive stamps are more practical and common |
| Andrew Oliver | commissioned to administer the unpopular Stamp Act in Massachusetts. On August 14, he was hanged in effigy from Boston's Liberty Tree in a protest organized by the Loyal Nine, a precursor to the Sons of Liberty. That night his house in Boston was ransacked by an angry crowd. On August 17, he was compelled to publicly resign his commission. On December 17, the Sons of Liberty again forced him to publicly swear that he would never act as stamp distributor |
| Thomas Hutchinson | compelled him to order the removal of the troops from the city. His letters were intercepted and printed by Ben Franklin |
| Patrick Henry | was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is remembered as one of the most influential (and radical) advocates of the American Revolution and republicanism, especially in his denunciations of corruption in government officials and his defense of historic rights. |
| Stamp Act Congress | consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act. |
| Sons and Daughters of Liberty | males were radicals who did not support the crown and in effect would show their discontent by rading ships, and burning efuges(sp). The women of this group were in charge of Boycotts and not buying products |
| Declaratory Act | Act of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1766, during America's colonial period, one of a series of resolutions passed attempting to regulate the behavior of the colonies. It stated that Parliament had the right to make laws for the colonies in all matters. |
| Townshend Acts | the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act. Purpose was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay for governors and judges who would be independent of colonial control, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies |
| Boston Massacre | the legal a |
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