British Problems
British needed help paying for the cost of housing their soldiers
What was the quartering act
stamp act was first direct tax
what is "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"?
first attempt at forming a national government
What was the articles of confederation?
protesting a lack of representation and opposition to virtual representation (1660)
What are the Navigation Acts?
produced goods for the Patriot Cause and spearheaded boycotts, collected money, medicine and food for continental army
Who are women?
"The Philadelphia Ladies Association"
cost of protecting colonist, colonial smuggling and debt from the French and Indian War
What is the reversal of salutary neglect?
British needed to save the East India Tea company
What is the Boston Tea party?
established procedures by which territories could become states
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
no power to levy taxes
What was the articles of confederation?
a major consequence of the French and Indian war
What is increased imperial control and imposing of new taxes.....reversal of salutary neglect?
The French blocked the British colonies from the Ohio river valley with a string of forts
what is the cause of the French and Indian War?
was first sign of colonial unity
boycotts
British crown's response was to declare the colonies to be in open rebellion
What was the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
called the colonies to enforce economic boycotts on British goods
What was the First continental Congress?
Britain needed to coordinate a colonial defense and way to collect taxes and recruit troops
What was the Albany Plan of Union
reversal of salutary neglect, The King of England and the principle of monarchy are attacked
What was Thomas Paine's "common sense"?
action of uneducated disgruntled farmers experiencing economic depression
What was "shay's rebellion"?
called for the abolition of slave trade
what is the declaration of independance
France negotiated a treaty of alliance with America
What was the battle of Saratoga
trade was damaged and profits diminished
What are the Townshend Act and Stamp Act?
lack of American representation in the British Parliament--debated by the First Continental Congress
What was Galloway's Plan?
most likely to agree with John Dickenson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Who were merchants in New England?
limited western expansion of colonial settlement by settling a boundary along the crest of the Appalachians
what was the Proclamation of 1763?
did not want to leave their state, had inadequate supplies, were paid with worthless currency, and used guerilla warfare
What is a Continental soldier?