Sept. 9-10 SS day 13
What is the Southern, Middle, and Northern Colonies type of economies?
Southern is plantations. Middle is mixed. Northern is industrial.
What was the Stamp Act?
It was a tax on all printed materials.
What are the protest methods, boycotting and smuggling?
Boycotting is refusing to buy certain goods or services to hurt a group financially. Smuggling is to import or export goods secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty (tax)
What was the Boston Massacre? Who was the most notable that died?
A group of colonists taunt redcoats and shots were fired by the soldiers killing 5 colonists. Crispus Attucks most notable.
Who are minuteman?
soldiers ready to fight at a minute’s notice
What are the cash crops?
Tobacco, indigo, and rice
What was the Sugar Act? What was it ment to stop?
It lowered the tax on molasses to convince colonists to pay tax instead of smugglin.
Who are the Sons of Liberty? What did they do to get their point across?
A group of male colonists who protest taxes and acts, starting in Boston. They used violence to make their point.
What was the Tea Act?
Gave East India Tea Company exclusive rights to sell tea to colonists, a monopoly.
What happened as the British began to return to Boston?
They were ambushed from the trees by 15,000 militia from all over.
What are 2 industries in the middle colonies?
iron working and forestry
What what was the Townshed Act? What did it allow?
The act was a tax on all imports like tea, glass, and paper. It enacted Writs of Assistance giving officials permission to search taxable goods with no warrant.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty? What did they do?
They are a female group who supported colonial protests after the Townshed Act. They spun their own cloth and found replacements for British tea.
What was the colonists reaction to the tea act?
Stopped unloading tea from harbors and the Boston Tea Party(Patriots go to tea ship and dump tea only)
How many minuteman were ready when the British reached Lexington?
70 minuteman
What were effects of the French and Indian War? Name at least 1. (hint: what happens to France, what are Britains finances, how do the colonists develop)
France loses land possession in North America, Britian has a large amount of debt, colonists develop unity, and move into the ORV.
What feelings did the colonists have about the Acts and British officials? What did they do about it?
The colonists created a Stamp Act Congress sending statements to the King. They disliked tax collectors, smuggled goods, and boycotted the taxes.
What was the committees of correspondence job?
A group to exchange information throughout the colonies, share information on boycotts and other protest, and form First Continental Congress.
What were the Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts?
Closed Port of Boston until tea was paid back and the Quatering Act, forcing colonists to allow soldiers to house in private homes.
What did the colonists do in the 1st Continental Congress?
Stockpile weapons, form militias, and boycotting British goods.
What was Pontiac’s Rebellion/Pontiac’s War? Why did it happen?
It was a series of attacks launched by Native Americans led by Pontiac. It happened because the Naives were not happy that colonists were moving onto there land and settling.
What was Parliaments response to the statements sent by the colonists?
They repealed and set up the Declaratory Act (the right to tax make decisions for the British Colonies in all cases.)
Who was the most famous smuggler?
John Hancock
What is propaganda.
A form a communication that is aimed at influencing attitude of a community toward some cause or position.
What did the riders say?
”the regulars are coming out”