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Vocabulary
Dealing with Great Britain
New Taxes on the
Colonies
Important People
100
The income or money received from taxes.
What is Revenue?
100
What the Proclamation of 1763 meant to the Colonists.
What is they were not allowed to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
100
The effect the Sugar Act had on the colonies.
What is it lowered the tax on Molasses and allowed British officers to search Colonial homes and seize smuggled items?
100
The only person in the committee of five that didn't actually sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Robert Livingston?
200
A stuffed figure that was made to look like one of the tax collectors.
What is an Effigy?
200
Three things the Proclamation of 1763 did.
What was 1) Kept peace with the Native Americans for a while? 2) Kept the Colonists near the coast so they could be taxed? 3) Controlled westward expansion?
200
Items that were taxed by the Stamp Act.
What was all printed materials such as newspapers, playing cards and deeds.
200
The statesmen that said Thomas Jefferson should head up the writing of the Declaration because he was a "Virginian."
Who was John Adams?
300
A document that allowed British soldiers to search colonial houses for smuggled goods.
What was a Writ of Assistance?
300
Items that were taxed by the Townshend Act in 1767.
What was imported goods from Britain...such as glass, tea and paper?
300
Delegates from 9 colonies that sent a resolution to the King saying that only colonial assemblies could tax their citizens?
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
300
The oldest of the Patriots, he went to England to ask for representation for the colonies.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
It was an official declaration of an action a group was taking.
What was a Resolution?
400
The colonists response to new taxes placed on them after the French Indian War.
What is they began to smuggle goods to other countries?
400
British merchants asked Parliament to do this when they started losing money.
What is to Repeal the Stamp Act?
400
The "Hot Head" governor of Virginia that convinced the House of Burgesses to send a resolution to the King.
Who was Patrick Henry?
500
When a law or an act is cancelled and no longer valid.
What is a Repeal?
500
The four things the colonists did in response to the Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townshend Acts.
What is 1) They began smuggling goods? 2) They Boycotted all British goods? 3) They burned effigies in the streets to protest taxes? 4) They began making their own America goods instead of buying from Britain?
500
This Act said that only Parliament had the power to tax the colonists NOT their assemblies.
What was the Declaratory Act?
500
The patriot that actually wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?