Events Part 1
The direct tax that the British government placed on newspapers, books, playing cards, and documents sold in the colonies - 1765
The Stamp Act
American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won
Patriots
The British enforced this line to lessen conflict between White Settlers and Native Americans after the end of the French and Indian War:
The Proclamation Line of 1763
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought -- MORE IMPORTS THAN EXPORTS
Mercantalism
slogan that reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament
"No Taxation without Representation"
(March 5, 1770) Colonists gathered outside the Boston customs house. Colonists and redcoats taunted each other and insulted each other. Snowballs, rocks, and oyster shells were thrown by the Boston mob. British shots were fired killing five colonists. Stirred up anti-British feelings.
The Boston Massacre
American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence
Loyalists
Arrangements were made by the British government that forced American colonists to provide food and shelter for the British troops during the Revolutionary War.
The Quartering Act
a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations - Example: Tax on tea
Indirect Tax
What group of colonists stopped buying British luxuries and joined others in spinning bees, places to make colonial-made cloth designed to show colonists' determination to boycott British-made cloth. These colonists also boycotted British tea and exchanged recipes for tea made from birch bark and sage.
Women
In retaliation for the Tea Party, the British passed several punitive acts aimed at bringing the colonies back into submission to the King - the British called them the Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts
A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. The leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, the members included Boston shop-keepers, artisans, and laborers
The Sons of Liberty
A law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies, also called harsh punishment of smugglers.
The Sugar Act
a tax paid directly by the person or organization on whom it is levied - Example: Income Tax
Direct Tax
Also known as the Seven Years War, it was a war between The French and the British in the colonies over land in the Ohio Valley region. The British and French both have Indian Allies (British have the Iroquois). British end up winning
The French & Indian War
1767 - Taxed goods, such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. It also allowed customs officials to search without real reason in order to prevent smuggling. Colonists believed that this indirect tax was an example of taxation without representation.
The Townshend Acts
The assemblies of Massachusetts and Virginia set up this organization to communicate with other colonies about this and other threats to American liberties. By 1774, such committees formed a buzzing communication network linking leaders in nearly all the colonies.
Committees of Correspondence
This Act closed the port of Boston until the East India Company was paid for the lost tea.
The Boston Port Act
the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis)
Martial Law
Passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed, the Act declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally, and had absolute power over the colonial legislatures.
Declaratory Act 1766
1773 - a group of men (The Sons of Liberty) dressed up like Mohawk Indians with hatchets and marched to the harbor, boarded ships, and dumped 343 chests of tea into the water
The Boston Tea Party
Convention of delegates from the colonies called in to discuss their response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
passed on May 20, 1774, authorized the governor of Massachusetts to move trials of royal officials accused of committing capital offenses, while performing their official duties, to another colony or to Great Britain, if he believed the accused would not receive a fair trial in Massachusetts.
The Administration of Justice Act
A tactical means of putting economic pressure on Britain by refusing to buy its exports to the colonies.
nonimportation movement
A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over the settlement of Indian lands in the Ohio River Valley after the French & Indian War
Pontiac's War