Taxes
This was the first indirect tax created by the British.
What is the Sugar Act?
They met in secret and opposed British control of the colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This area was hotly contested between the British and the French in the mid 1700's.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This is when a nation's wealth is determined by how much gold & silver it has.
What is mercantilism?
Britain had issued this at the start of the French & Indian War, in order to ensure their victory.
What was a "blank check"?
This tax required that every item made from paper be stamped.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was a communications system that was set up throughout the 13 colonies.
What are the Committees of Correspondance?
George Washington played a crucial role in the outbreak of this early conflict.
This is the name of Britain's legislative body.
What is Parliament?
This movement led people to begin to question the role of government.
What is the Enlightenment?
This tax was placed on lead, paper, glass & tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This phrase was used by the colonists to justify their refusal to pay taxes.
This was really the first unifying force within the Colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
Britain's failure to uphold its own laws in the colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
This movement lead to the emergence of new Protestant denominations, like, the Baptists & Methodists.
What is the Great Awakening?
Great Britain claimed the rising taxes were needed because...
to pay off the war debt & protect the colonies
These were contests between the women of a community as part of a defiance of British taxation.
What are the "spinning bees"?
What is salutary neglect?
This is the term that Britain used in response to the colonial argument of "no taxation without representation."
What is "Virtual representation"?
What was the Albany Congress?
This tax was created due to the over supply of tea the British East India company had.
What is the Tea Act?
This guaranteed that British officials who commit a crime in the colonies are tried in Britain.
According to John Locke, if the people are unhappy with their government, they had the right to...
When the tax is built into the price of a product.
What is an indirect tax?
This was passed in 1650 and required that all goods being sold to the colonies be sold only through British merchants.
What are the Navigation Acts?