Laws
They were laws that regulated trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
What were the Navigation Acts?
This was an act passed by the British parliament in 1765 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
What is the Stamp Act?
He was the founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This event occurred on March 5, 1770, when a group of 10 British soldiers was harassed by a mob of colonists that threw rocks and snowballs at them, a few even going so far as to try and wrest the rifles from the soldiers. The soldiers retaliated by firing a volley point-blank into the crowd, killing or wounding 11 citizens.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This was an economic system (c. 18th-century Europe) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests and having colonies contribute their resources to the metropole.
What is Mercantilism?
This law accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act, and said British law was binding in all cases whatsoever
What was the Declaratory Act?
This was an act passed by Parliament that required the colonies to provide housing for British troops
Quartering Act
He was a British Prime Minister that believed in strict enforcement of laws. He oversaw passage of the Sugar Act 1764 and Stamp Act 1765. He was not liked by the American Colonists
Who was George Grenville?
In this event, Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians smashed and dumped 342 boxes of tea leaves into the harbor on December 16th, 1773.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American revolutionaries
Who were the Hessians?
These laws were passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. They closed Boston's port, reduced powers of self-government, allowed royal officers to be tried in England or other colonies, and provided for quartering of British troops in empty houses or barns.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This was the first law ever passed by Parliament for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown; it was a duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies; after bitter protests from the colonists, the duties were lowered significantly, and the agitation died down
What was the Sugar Act of 1764?
He was a British Chancellor of the Exchequer who spearheaded efforts to levy taxes on a variety of goods in order to help pay salaries of royal governors.
Who was Charles Townshend?
They were committees whose chief function was to spread the spirit of resistance by exchanging letters and keeping opposition to British policy alive.
What were the committees of correspondence?
They were a group of British political commentators. They were very nervous about the power of Parliament and the arbitrary powers of the monarch. They warned the colonists to be always on the lookout for a violation of their rights.
Who were the radical Whigs?
This law gave Catholic French Canadians religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law, nullifying many of the western claims by extending the boundaries of the province of Quebec to the Ohio River.
What was the Quebec Act of 1774?
This put a light import tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea.
What were the Townshend Acts (Revenue Act) of 1767?
He was a Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Valley Forge in the American Revolutionary War.
Who was Baron Von Steuben?
In this event, 2800 American soldiers went without bread for 3 days in 1777-1778 in Pennsylvania.
What was the winter at Valley Forge?
They were payments of money to a person in exchange for temporary military service
What were bounties?
This was the British right to nullify any legislation passed by the colonial system if it went against Mercantilism.
What was the royal veto?
This was the Intolerable Act which closed the Boston harbor until damages were paid for the destruction of tea during the Boston Tea Party, and order could be ensured
What was the Boston Port Act of 1774
He was the British Prime Minister during the revolution. He oversaw passage of the Coercive Acts and supported the king greatly to the extent that Britain was ruled only by the king.
Who was Lord North?
These agreements told colonists to stop using British goods. Instead, people made their own clothes and didn't eat lamb so that they could have more wool to make clothes. These agreements were an important step towards union. They united the American people for the same cause for the first time.
What were the nonimportation agreements?
This was an effective organization created by the First Continental Congress to provide a total, unified boycott of all British goods (non-importation, non-consumption, non-exportation)
What was the Association?