Tax Acts
What was the tax on paper goods?
Stamp Act
Britain repealed the taxes after the Boston Massacre. What does repeal mean?
to take back
Leader of Britain
King George the III
What does liberty mean?
Freedom and Rights
This required colonists to house British Soldiers
Quartering Act
How did colonists still get goods if they boycotted items from England?
-smuggled in goods from elsewhere
-made their own
The Acts not only increased taxes but made it easier to do what to suspected smugglers.
Arrest, search, and seizure without Evidence.
Who was involved in the French & Indian War and what sides were they on?
The British fought against the French & Indians
What does "no taxation without representation" mean?
Colonists had no representatives in parliament and felt that taxation was unfair to them.
This tax lowered an existing tax on sugar and Molasses but made it easier to search and arrest people and their cargo.
Sugar Act
How did Colonists respond to the tax acts
Protests, riots, and violence.
How did colonists view Britain and what they were doing after the war
Tyrants, and dictators, taking away rights, freedoms, and liberties. Ignoring them and their issues.
The riot that broke out between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in 5 deaths was called...
The Boston Massacre
True or False the Intolerable Acts were a punishment for the Boston Tea Party
True
What was the cause of the Boston Tea Party?
The Tea Act
How did Britain view and treat the colonies after the French and Indian War?
Needing to be controlled and order restored, terrorists, brutes, thugs, savages, whiners, non-British, trouble makers.
These people increased in number after the war to enforce the laws and control the colonies. Colonists saw it as Britain's power and oppression.
British Soldiers
Groups that went against British rule and believed in freedom protested them. Calls Sons/daughters of...
Sons of Liberty/ Daughters of Liberty
The colonists felt that Parliament ignored documents that guaranteed certain Tax rights and rights of the accused.
Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights
These tax acts were passed to show the colonies who was "boss" after Parliament was called cowards for not taxing the colonies.
Townshend Acts
Name 2 restrictions that the Intolerable Acts placed on the colonists of Boston.
-closed the Boston Port until damages of the Boston Tea Party were paid
- Couldn't have town meetings or choose officials
-Placed under more British control
-Colonists ordered to quarter British soldiers
What were the acts that Britain passed in response to the Tea Party called?
Intolerable Acts.
This did not allow settlers to move west past the Appalachian Mountains and forced them back east.
Proclamation of 1763
The system in which colonial trade and business was controlled by Britain, to bring wealth to the "Mother Country" was hated by the colonists.
Mercantilism/ist