Vocabulary
The organized effort to not purchase certain goods
What is Boycott?
Passed in 1763, this acted forbade the colonists from trading with the natives in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Colonists smuggled in items primarily from the Caribbean during this act.
What is the Sugar Act?
An attempt to get money to pay off the war debt from the French and Indian War, Parliament did this to the colonists.
What is Tax?
The biggest offense of Parliament in acts such as: The Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts.
What is Taxation With No Representation?
A law passed by a body of government. (In this case Parliament)
What is an Act?
A statement from Parliament reiterating its power over the colonies.
This group of people, that included John Hancock and Sam Adams, organized events in Boston against the British.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
To save money after the French and Indian War, Parliament told the colonists to house soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
According to the English Bill of Rights, this is something that you are entitled to if you are convicted of a crime. It is also the 6th Amendment in the American Bill of Rights.
What is a Trial By Jury?
The physical representation of a person used to intimidate that particular person.
What is an Effigy?
The first direct tax upon the colonists, it was similar to today's sales tax.
What is the Stamp Act?
The practice of getting a product or shipment of products into an area illegally.
What is Smuggling?
To intimidate tax collectors and force their resignations from their posts.
What are Effigies?
The 3rd Amendment was enacted as a result of this Act Parliament passed in 1765.
What is the Quartering Act?
Something a citizen of a country has to protect it from the government.
What is a Right?
The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts forced colonists to pay this kind of tax to the British crown.
What is a Tariff or Import Tax?
When the police search a home of a citizen they need this document, not something the British soldiers needed in 1767 to perform similar searches.
What is a Warrant?
To cause harmful, yet non-violent, damage to businesses and their profits.
What is Boycott?
Peter Zenger proved that British citizens had the right of freedom of the press as long as they did not commit this crime.
What is Libel?
The idea that the mother country of a territory will allow the territory to operate on its own with minimal interference.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Parliament allowed soldiers to search for smuggled goods in this Act.
What is the Writs of Assistance?
This event led to Parliament declaring that colonists were not allowed in the Ohio River Valley.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
An attempt to protect the goods traded between the colonies and Britain, these Acts also attempted to stop the smuggling of goods from other regions.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Guaranteed by the creation of Parliament, this is the fundamental right that all British citizens held in their society.
What is Representation in Government?