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24 Cards in this Set
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What is Salutary Neglect? |
-British didnt pay close attention to colonies -Colonies governed themselves |
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Great Britain followed a policy called... |
mercantilism |
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mercantilism |
the theory that countries should sell more goods to other countries than it buys
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The colonies felt... |
fine as long as they were making money and allowed to handle their own affairs (run gov.. etc) |
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British government passed a series of |
navigation acts |
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navigation acts |
-the colonies could only trade with the mother country -american goods must be exported in british ships |
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Writs of Assistance |
British Customs officials were given the authority to search people's homes for smuggled goods without a warrent |
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The French and Indian War |
-French empire collided with British empire -British dept = high american taxes |
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Treaty of Paris: Proclamation of 1763 |
-Britain claimed land east of the mississpi river -banned all settlement west of the applation mts -increased independant spirit |
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1764 Sugar Act |
-British action.. -Raised taxes on things like sugar, textiles, wine, coffee, indigo -Colonist response... -first time a tax had been passed to raise revenue rather than to regulate trade -colonial merchants protested the increased duties
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1765 Stamp Act |
-British action: taxed all documents, newspapers, and playing cards by forcing colonists to place a special stamp on the items -direct tax |
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Colonial Reaction |
"No taxation without representation" -COlonists felt they shouldnt be taxed bc they didnt elect anybody for parliament -boycotted english goods -sons of liberty was formed who was a group that opposed english rule and advocated independence |
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british response... |
parliament repealed the stamp act... boycotts were so unsuccessful that not one stamp was ever sold |
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1765 Quartering Act |
-British action: colonists had to keep british troops in their homes -purpose was to keep troops in the colonies and reduce the cost -Colonial response: colonists did not get along with the army and did not want them there permanaantly -began to form meetings about the acts they disliked |
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1770 the boston massacre |
5 men killed |
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1772 Commitees of correspondance formed |
-started by samuel adams -used to pass information by the colonists -it was a secret orgnization |
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1773 tea act |
-parliament repealed townshend acts except for taxes on tea -reduced taxes on tea, but forced colonies to buy tea from a certain company -the colonists saw through the trick.. how did they react? |
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1773 boston tea party |
-group of colonists called the sons of liberty dumped tea into the boston harbor as protest -they were thinly disguised as native americans
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spring 1774 the intolerable acts |
-designed to punish the colonists for tea partu -clpsed boston harbor -restricted trial by jury -searches without warrants -quartering troops without permision -no town meetings allowed in massachusetts -all this strengthened colonies unity |
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thomas paine's common sense |
argued for independence |
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Currency Act 1764 |
forbade currency not redeemable in gold or silver, made it difficult for colonists to avoid money drains that British mercantile policies were supposed to create |
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declaratory act 1766 |
passed with the repeal of the stamp act.. it states that the british can tax americans in all cases whatsoever thereby eliminating american right to no taxation without representation |
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TOWNSHEND DUTIES |
Creates Admiralty Courts to try violations, use of Writs of Assistance, paying customs officials out of the fines levied and also suspended New York legislature for noncompliance with the Quartering Act
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quebec act |
Extended the province of Quebec to the Ohio River and established Roman Catholicism as official religion of Quebec. It also set up government without representative assembly
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