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36 Cards in this Set
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Pontiac's Rebellion |
What Rebellion arose from the French Indian Wars? |
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Royal Proclamation of 1763 |
What British proclamation banned settlements West of the Appalachian Mountains? |
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England can only tax trade (External/Indirect) |
What was the Colonial view of British Taxation? |
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John Locke |
Whose views were the colonies inspired by in how they viewed taxes? |
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Everybody ignores Taxation. |
What was salutary neglect? |
It ended due to the debt England acquired from the French Indian War |
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George Grenville |
The first prime minister to try taxing the colonies. |
He was a devout mercantilist. |
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Sugar act. |
The first tax act made by Grenville that harbored a 3 pence tax. |
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Molasses Act |
The previous tax that carried 6 pence. |
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Smuggling |
What did the sugar act cause? |
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Writs of Assistance |
What was Britain solution to smugglers? |
This enabled search and seizure without warrants (Blanket Search Warrants) |
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Vice-Admiralty Courts |
England's right to juries without a fair trial (no jury) |
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Stamp Act |
The second act that enabled Taxation on ALL paper goods. |
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Virtual Taxes |
What kind of taxes were the stamp and sugar acts referred to by the British. |
"The king has everyone in mind" |
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Sons of Liberty |
The stamp act caused the birth of what group? |
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Samuel Adams |
Who was the leader of the sons of liberty? |
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Stamp agents and Gov. Thomas Hutchinson |
Who and what were the targets of the Sons of Liberty? |
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Patrick Henry |
Virginia governor that exclaimed "give me liberty, or give me death!" |
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Boycotting |
What was the second solution to the Taxation that wasn't smuggling? |
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Lord Rockingham |
The prime minister that came to fix George Grenville's tax acts. (Repeal stamp act) |
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Declaratory Act |
What Lord Rockingham issued to make sure the colonies knew who was in control. |
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New Revenue Act |
The revision to the Sugar act that lowered the tax from 3 pence to 1. |
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William Pitt |
The mentally incapable prime minister that comes in after Lord Rockingham. |
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Charles Townsend |
The prime minister that comes after the mentally incapable one, and tries to best Lord Rockingham. |
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Townshend Acts |
Acts implemented to force Taxation on many goods such as lead, glass, paper, paint and tea. |
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Use of revenue from taxed to pay royal officials. |
What was the main thing that Townsend did to enforce his new taxes? |
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Circular Letter |
The document written by Samuel Adams and Jame Otis Jr. in protest of the Townshend Acts |
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John Dickinson |
The wealthy man who wrote the protest against the Townshend acts known as "Letter From a Farmer in Pennsylvania" |
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Liberty |
The riot named after John Hancock's ship that was confiscated that caused 5000 soldiers to come from Britain. |
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Disassemble Colonial assemblies |
What would England do if the colonist did not trash the circular letter? |
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Crispus Attucks |
The first colonist of 5 to die from rising tensions. |
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Boston Massacre |
The term for the incident that caused the first five colonist to die. |
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John Adams |
The lawyer that helped the 20 convicted British soldiers. |
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Lord North |
Who repealed the Townshend acts (except tea) after the Boston Massacre? |
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Gaspee Incident |
The British ship that chased smugglers but was seized and burned by The Sons of Liberty |
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Committees of Correspondence |
The first stable connection between the colonies that was made on the eve of the American Revolution. |
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Tea Act of 1773 |
An act to bail out the British East India Company from bankruptcy. |
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