Vocab
Made a law that the colonies could only trade with England, no one else.
What is the Navigation Act?
The first permanent English settlement
What is Jamestown?
The English were forced to eat horses, rats, cats, dogs, even shoes.
What is the starving time?
July 4, 1776, voted on and approved.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Taxes on all printed items
What is the Stamp Act?
Taxes and fees were very high on sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
English troops sent out men to round up rebellion leaders and steal their supplies.
What is British Retaliation?
Fired up over the Tea Act, the Sons of Liberty started blocking the harbor and that didn’t work, so they boarded three ships, and threw $900,000 worth of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Let the troops live and eat in colonial homes without the owners permission (directly against previous law)
What is the Quartering Act?
Taxed paper, lead, glass, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
Smugglers tried in vice courts, not before juries, People were presumed guilty until proven innocent, and Judges were usually from Britain, and didn’t like the Colonists.
What is the enforcement of the Sugar Act?
Five people were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
England LOWERED the price of tea in the colonies, but still imposed the Townshend Act tax on tea.
What is the Tea Act?
England closed the harbor until all tea was paid for, Massachusetts lost its charter, Imposed martial law, Outlawed meetings, Sent criminals to England for trial and Forced quarter of troops.
What is the Intolerable Act?
Soldiers were tried by the courts, and found innocent, Outraged, the colonists began circulating the story in newspapers, and Lines were drawn between “Loyalists” and “Patriots”.
What was the Boston Massacre fallout?
The over-chief of more than 18 tribes known as the Powhatan Empire.
Who is Chief Powhatan?
In response to intolerable acts,12 of 13 colonies sent delegates (not Georgia),Began writing grievances to England, which were ignored, Began organizing militias of “minutemen”, Not initially working for independence, just protecting their rights as English Citizens.
What is the First Continental Congress?
May 11th, 1775, It was clear the king refused to listen to his subjects, Some members still wanted reconciliation, Some want independence, and The vote had to be unanimous
What is the Second Continental Congress?
The attitude towards the end of the French and Indian War.
What is The Colonists also don’t do as they are told, The Colonies dislike men in red coats bossing them about, Impressment, Militia, Quarter?
He was a captain with the Virginia Company and Quickly became the leader of the Jamestown colony.
Who is John Smith?