Chapter 4 : Imperial Wars & Colonial Protest

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Pontiacs Rebellion

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Pontiac led a major attack against colonial settlements on western frontier, which tested colonial settlements policy

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Proclamation of Sugar Act

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raised money for the crown & placed duties on foreign sugar &certain luxuries.

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Quartering Act

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required colonist to shelter & provide food for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.

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Stamp Act

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required that revenue stamps be placed on most printed paper in colonies

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Patrick Henry

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expressed the importance of many when he stood in the house of burguesses to demand that the kings government recognize the rights of all citizens

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Stamp Act Congress

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a cooperative action against the stamp act, where 9 colonies came together in New York

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Sons & Daughters of Liberty

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secret society used to intimidate tax agents

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Declaratory Act

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law stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies.

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Townshed Acts

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stated that recenues raised went to the crown officals in the colonies, provided for search in private homes for smuggling goods, enacted new duties to be collected in colonial imports.

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Writs of assistance

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general license to search anywhere

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John Dickinson, letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania

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argued that because duties were a form of taxation, they could not be collected on the colonies without the consent of their representative assemblies, but agreed that parliament could regulate commerce.

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Samuel Adams & James Otis

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Wrote the Massachusetts cirular letter, it urged colonies to petition Parliament to repeal the Townshnd Acts

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Lord Fredrick North

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new prime minister who urged parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts because their effect was to damage trade & to generate only a disappenting amount of revenue

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Boston Massacre

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took place on a snowy day in 1770. British were being harrased by colonist so they fired at them killing 5 people

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Crispus Attucks

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African american killed in boston massacre

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Committees of correspondence

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commites that would regularly exchange letters about suspicious British activities

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Gaspee incidents

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incident where the british ship which caught numbers of smugglers was set in fire by a group of colonist disguised native americans

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Tea Act

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made price of companies teas even withe the tax included

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Boston Tea Party

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shipment of East India Companies tea arrived in Bostons Harbor...but no buyers...were there...with the tea still on board ... colonist disguised as native americans dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor

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intolerable Acts

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various laws

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Coercive Acts

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four acts directed mainly at punishing the people of Boston & Massachusetts & bringing dissidents under control

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Quebec Act

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organized the canadian lands gained from France

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Enlightenment

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18th century Americans were attracted to a European movement in literature & philosophy