Vocab
What is Mercantilism
System of Gov. that controls trade and determines price
What was the effect
Taxed everyday items that colonists use
What happened before
A teenager was beat before
What laws were included
House troops
Close Boston Harbor for trade
Banned Committees of Correspondence
Tea Act
Allowed the British Government to control trade in the colonies
Define Act
A law that must be followed by citizens
Fear the act made
British going to seize power
Outcome
5 colonists dead
Why were they intolerable
To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Townshend Acts
Grievance
A complaint over something that is believed unfair
Requirements
Tax wine, sugar, molasses, and indigo
Colonists believed Britain was evil
What did they say to King George III
To stop intolerable acts
Quartering Acts
To feed and house british troops
Unalienable rights
Rights that cannot be taken away
Proclamation Act of 1763
Forced them to stay inside the colonies