Acts
This act passed in 1765 required a special government stamp on legal papers, wills, and playing cards
Stamp Act
This is the refusal to buy certain goods or services as a form of protest
Boycott
This major event created a massive debt for the British government, leading directly to the decision to tax the colonies.
French and Indian War
This is the theory that a nation's economic strength comes from selling more than it buys, with colonies existing to enrich the "mother country"
Mercantilism
This person engraved the famous picture of the Boston Massacre
Paul Revere
Colonists argued this act violated their rights as Englishmen because it allowed officials to conduct searches of private property without probable cause or specific warrants.
Writs of Assistance
This famous slogan expressed the key political idea that colonists should only pay taxes if they had representatives in Parliament
"Taxation without Representation"
How many people died in the Boston Massacre
5
This is the general term for the product stream flowing from the Mother Country to the Colony in the Mercantilism diagram.
Manufactured goods
Who made made powerful speeches in support of the colonists’ cause
Patrick Henry
What year did the Navigation Acts start?
1650s
What is propaganda?
The spread of biased, not always true information through newspaper articles, etc.
The initial purpose of the "Join, or Die" cartoon was to unite the colonies against this common enemy, not the British.
French and their Native American allies
This is one example of an advantage, or positive, of the Navigation Acts for the colonists, as it secured a buyer for their crops
Guaranteed market for their goods in England
Who Used his knowledge of British law to help American colonists
John Adams
How did the colonists respond to the Stamp Act (1765)? *(four things and a saying)
They protested, boycotted, rioted, they petitioned the king, and they repealed. "No taxation without representation!"
Why did the colonists resent the Proclamation
they could not move westward
What was the Albany Plan of Union
a proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create a unified government for the British colonies
Why did many traders ignore the Navigation Acts?
Demand for products from the colonies was high and traders knew they could make more money by ignoring the Navigation Acts.
This colonial lawyer helped American colonists in court cases, often arguing against British policies like the Writs of Assistance.
John Adams
The Proclamation of 1763 contributed to the outbreak of the ?
American Revolution
Grenville's policy led to the _________ and __________ conflicts that would divide the colonies and England
political and economic
What was the glorious revolution?
Glorious Revolution - in 1688, the movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens
What does “power of the purse” mean?
Raise or spend money, check on the governors power
Who Wrote letters with Abigail Adams to support the American cause
Mercy Otis Warren