Random British Stuff
The lawmaking body of England. This consisted of the king or queen, the House of Lords and the House of Commons
What is the British Parliament?
The economic philosophy used by by Britain. It promoted the idea that countries should (a) import more than they export and (b) increase their supplies of silver and gold.
What is mercantilism?
Famous Lieutenant Colonel in the British military who fought in the opening battle of the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
This act taxed glass, lead, paper, paint and tea imported into the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts of 1767?
Another name for import taxes.
What are customs duties?
Originally used for investigating smuggling on colonial ships, they were later used for searching houses suspected of holding smuggled merchandise.
What are writs of assistance?
These acts were passed in 1651. They were passed to make sure that colonists raised the right products and sold them in the right places.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Area that the British and French both claimed in North America.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This act was made into law when the colonist repealed the Stamp Act. Parliament basically said they can tax the Americans when they feel like it.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Act forbidding American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Historians see Britain as guilty of not enforcing tax laws in the American colonies.
Who is salutary neglect?
They were the goods that colonial producers could sell to the British. The British would make manufactured goods from them.
What are raw goods?
Allies of the French who were wary of help the British during the war.
Who are Native Americans?
These acts were "payback" by the British government for actions by the Sons of Liberty at the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
Many Americans pointed their displeasure at increased taxes at this person.
Who is King George III?
Gentleman of mixed Native American/African ancestry.
Sometimes referred to as the first death of the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Controversial law that made colonists offer room and board to British Redcoats stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
British Prime Minister who made American colonists pay more taxes after the French and Indian War.
Hint: The city of Pittsburgh is named after him.
Who is William Pitt?
This act taxed sugar, coffee, and a number of other products the colonists imported.
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
The representative body that represented the American colonists' reaction to the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
These were also knows as assemblies. Many colonists, including Ben Franklin, believed they were the only rightful "bodies" that could tax Americans.
What are legislatures?
Before the Sugar Act of 1764, the legislation that made colonists pay a tax on sugar imported from the West Indies.
What is the Molasses Act of 1733?
After the French and Indian War, Britain controlled everything from the Atlantic Ocean to this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This law taxed the use of all sorts of printed matter, deeds to land, marriage license, advertisements, newspapers, diplomas, customs documents, even packets of playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
Slogan used by Americans to relate how they felt about taxes such as the Stamp Act.
What is "No taxation without representation"?