British Tax/Acts
Placed taxes on imports of many goods, including sugar, cloth, wine and coffee
What is the Sugar Act
This is the proclamation was issued in this year.
What is 1763?
The year this war began
What is 1756?
This act replaced
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
The deliberate spreading of disease among an enemy population
What is germ warfare?
Placed import taxes on glass, paper, lead, paint and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
This King issued the proclamation.
Who is King George the third?
This war cost
What is 82 million pounds?
What is 1774?
The name for Canadians of French descent
Who are Canadiens?
Required people to buy government stamps to place on all legal documents(e.g. contracts) and printed materials (e.g., newspapers).
What is the Stamp Act?
Civil Law is.
What is the branch of law that deals with landholding and private matters rather than with criminal acts?
The British expected these citizens to pay for the war
Who are the colonists or the Thirteen Colonies?
This religious group could now participate in the government
Who are Roman Catholics?
The Thirteen Colonies were split into these three groups
What is the North, Middle and Southern colonies?
Declared that colonies were under the control of the British governement.
What is Declaratory Acts?
This civil law replaces French Law abolishing the seigneurial system,
What is English civil law?
This group were defeated in the war
Who are the French?
This act made what French System legal again
What is the seigneurial system?
What is the Boston Tea Party of 1773?
Closed down the port of Boston and restricted discussion of taxes in public meetings.
What is the Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts?
The British now controlled these two territories of France.
What is Acadia and New France?
In order to pay for the war, the British imposed these
What are special taxes/ parliamentary acts?
This act enlarged the territory of Quebec to include these three islands
What are Labrador, islands in the St. Lawrence River and the Ohio Valley?
He name is synonymous (perfect example of) with villain in US history
Who is Benedict Arnold?