Miscellaneous
These increased exponentially for Britain with the end of the Seven Years' War.
What are taxes?
This act passed by George Greenville prohibited colonists from using paper money as legal tender.
What is the Currency Act of 1764?
Delegates from nine colonial assemblies sent delegates where sent to this congress in New York City to discuss recent British taxes and what to do about them.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
This assembly convened in Philadelphia in 1774 with representatives from 12 mainland colonies in response to Britain's Coercive Acts.
What is the Continental Congress?
This group of people faced huge costs if caught, including death or "forced transportation" to the Colonies as indentured servants.
Who are smugglers?
This act passed in 1764, was largely ignored by colonists that largely avoided it by smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
This group of angry colonists attacked royal tax collectors, and eventually dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in response to British taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This popular propagandist wrote “Common Sense”.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This established a line along the Appalachian Mountains following Pontiac's Rebellion that prohibited American Colonists from settling the West and encroaching upon Native American land.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This act levied taxes on more than 50 goods in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This act was passed in 1766, stipulating that Britain's Parliament had full power to institute future laws or taxes in the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This early colonial leader argued that slavery was indeed wicked, extending the argument that Britain was usurping colonists' rights and treating them as "slaves". Most colonists ignored this argument.
Who is Ben Franklin or James Otis?
The end of the French Indian War led to the end of this, much to the chagrin of American Colonists.
What is salutary neglect?
What are vice-admiralty courts?
This act was pushed through by Parliament's Charles Townshend in 1767 and instituted a taxes on paper, glass, paint, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
This man rejected colonists' overture for peace in 1775 including their Olive Branch Petition.
Who is King George the III?
This was a second boycott of British goods led by the Daughters of Liberty.
What was the nonimportation movement, or refusal to buy English goods?
This act passed in 1765 allowed for British soldiers to be housed in American Colonists' homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
Many colonists pointed to this long standing legal English tradition, that colonists argued protected them as well from abusive state powers and conferred upon them certain rights.
What is English Common Law?
This man led settlers into Kentucky wilderness and settled on the banks of the Kentucky River, land that had before been off limits to colonial exploration and settlement.
Who is Daniel Boone?