Chapter 3-5: Proclamation of 1763
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Proclamation of 1763
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A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
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Sugar Act
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British deeply in debt partl to French & Indian War. English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors.
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Stamp Act
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Required a stamp or seal on all paper products including leagle documents, licences and new papers. Some colonists openly ignored the law and intimidated tax collectores. The Law was eventually repealed.
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Townshend Act
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Passed by Parliament in 1767, placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Led to outrage and tons of people boycotted British goods. The law allowed tax collectors to search colonial ships and wearhouses for smuggled goods. Protests begand on British goods, British soldiers were sent to restore order.
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Tea Act
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The British pushed East India Tea co. on coloiests, the idea that cheap tea would discurage smuggling. Coloniest feard they would be put out of busniness, eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party.
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Intolerable Act
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Passed by Parliament in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Passed series of measures including shutting down Boston Harbor and the Quartering Act, which allowed British commanders to house soldiers in vacant private homes and other buildings. This resulted in the colonists forming the First Continental Congress and drawing up a declaration of colonial rights.
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Boston Massare
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Colonists provoked British soldiers by throwing rocks and clubs to the point of British firing in crowd, in which five were killed. this event was dramatized by Paule Revers drawing of the insident that spread throughout the colonies
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Taxation without Representation
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The colonists were angry because they had to pay taxes to England but they did not get to have a representative in the English Parliament.
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Quartering Act
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Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.
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Committees of Correspondence
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Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies
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Boston Tea Party
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A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.
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Sons of Liberty
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A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution
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Writs of Assistance
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Allowed England to search colonists' ships and other private property without an individual warrant
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Patrick Henry
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A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies. \"Give me liberty of give me death\"
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John Adams
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Believed in the importance of the rule of law led him to defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre; his defense demonstrated to the world that the colonists were civilized and could therefore govern themselves
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Stamp Act Congress
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Organization of colonies that protested taxes
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James Otis
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A colonial lawyer who defended (usually for free) colonial merchants who were accused of smuggling. Argued against the writs of assistance and the Stamp Act.
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George Grenville
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Appointed by King George III as the Prime Minister, he had the opinion that the colonists should obey the laws and pay a part of the cost of defending and administering the British empire; passed the Sugar and Stamp Acts.
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Repeal
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To cancel an act or law
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Boycott
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A refusal to buy or use goods and services. Much like the coloniest protest against useing British good or paying taxes
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Innocent until Proven Guilty
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A belief in the American legal system which states that all people accused of a criminal act are considered not to have committed the crime until the evidence leaves no doubt in the mind of the court or the jury that the accused did or did not commit the crime.
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Admiralty Court
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British courts originally established to try cases involving smuggling or violations of the Navigation Acts which the British government sometimes used to try American criminals in the colonies. Trials in Admiralty Courts were heard by judges without a jury.
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Sam Adams
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A Massachusetts politician who was a radical fighter for colonial independence. Helped organize the Sons of Liberty and the Non-Importation Commission, which protested the Townshend Acts, and is believed to have lead the Boston Tea Party.
