Quick Check 10/1/14 – Flashcards
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Mercantilism
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an economic system by which a mother country becomes rich by controlling trade with her colonies.
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The Proclamation of 1763
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The colonists basically ignored this act by settling in the Ohio River Valley
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The Stamp Act
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This act placed the first internal tax (tax on goods within the colonies) on the colonies. It required colonists to pay taxes on products like marriage licenses, newspapers, and even playing cards
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The Sugar Act
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Samuel Adams helped to form Committees of Correspondence to protest this act
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The Intolerable Acts
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This act was created as punishment for the Boston Tea Party and allowed British military rule in Massachusetts
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The Stamp Act
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This act was repealed by the British due to colonial boycotts and the request of a special Congress led by Patrick Henry
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The Sugar Act
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The colonists protested this act by creating the slogan "No Taxation Without Representation."
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The Tea Act
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This act greatly angered the colonists because it allowed the British to drive colonial smugglers out of business
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The Intolerable Acts
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The First Continental Congress met to figure out how the colonies should respond to this act:
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Townshend Act
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The Sons of Liberty attacked the houses of British customs officials as a result of this act that placed taxes on a variety of imported items
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The Stamp Act
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Samuel Adams helped to create the Sons of Liberty in response to this act that affect all classes of colonists
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The Intolerable Acts
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The colonists organized their largest boycott in response to this act that closed the Port of Boston
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The Townshend Acts
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The British were allowed to search colonists' homes without permission due to this act, which led many colonial legislatures to officially protest the act
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Proclamation of 1763
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The colonists ignored the law, people who lived in the Ohio River valley stayed there and many colonists continued to move there.
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Sugar Act
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James Otis, said that the British could not take away their property, without their consent or by representation or without allowing the colonies to have a say in it. He said "Taxation without representation"
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Sugar Act
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Samuel Adams helped to create Committees of Correspondence to share information about the British laws after this act was passed.
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Stamp Act
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Colonists formed groups called the Sons of Liberty, they used violence to scare the tax collectors after this act was passed.Patrick Henry spoke out against this Act, the colonists asked Britain to repeal the this Act. After it was repealed the Declaratory Act was put in place.
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Stamp Act
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Patrick Henry spoke out against this act, the colonists asked Britain to repeal this act. After it was repealed the Declaratory Act was put in place.
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Loyalists or Tories
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Those who continued to support the King were called
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Patriots
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_____ were colonists who believed that the colonies should separate from the English government.
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The Proclamation of 1763
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_________ banned the British from settling on the west side of the Appalachian mountains. The Proclamation also kept more people from settling in the Ohio River Valley.
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Sugar Act
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This law set taxes on molasses and sugar to help pay back some of the debt from the war. This was a one of the first acts to pay back debts from the war. (External Tax)
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Stamp Act
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This law required colonists to pay for an official seal whenever they bought paper items such as licenses, newspapers and letters. If the colonists refused to buy stamps they would be jailed. (Internal Tax)
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Townshend Acts
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The _____ _____ placed taxes on imported glass, lead, paint, paper and tea. The money paid for military costs and the salary of colonial governors. This law violated the colonists rights to have no standing army in peacetime. Writs of Assistance this allowed the colonists house to be searched at any time.
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Tea Act
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The British lowered the taxes on tea to gain complete control over tea trade. Colonists who sold tea were worried they were going to go out of business, other colonists were worried that the East India Company would gain complete control over tea.
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Intolerable Acts
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The ____ ____ forced Boston to pay for the lost tea, the Massachusetts Charter was cancelled, Royal officials were sent to England for trials, the colonists had to supply a house to British Soldiers, an military rule was created in Massachusetts.
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The Intolerable Acts
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This law punished the colonists in Boston by closing their harbor and creating a military rule in Massachusetts:
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The Stamp Act
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This law was placed a tax on paper item to help pay for the French/Indian War:
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The Sugar Act
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This law was placed a duty (tax) on imported molasses into the colonies:
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The Proclamation of 1763.
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This law banned colonists from settling in the Ohio River Valley:
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The Tea Act
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This law attempted to stop colonial smugglers by lowering taxes:
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The Townshend Acts
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This law allowed the British to search colonists housed for smuggled goods and put a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea:
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The Sugar Act
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The colonies protested this act by boycotting British goods for the first time and forming Committees of Correspondence to spread information about protests
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Townshend Act
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Since this act allowed British officials to search through colonists' homes, the Sons of Liberty responded by attacking the houses of British Customs Officials
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The Intolerable Acts
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When this act closed Boston's Harbor, the colonists united by forming a Continental Congress to demand that the King stop his unfair laws
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The Stamp Act
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After this act was passed groups called the Sons of Liberty formed to protest by intimidating tax collectors
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The Proclamation of 1763
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Colonists responded to this early act by simply ignoring the law
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The Tea Act
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Colonists responded to this act with the famous "Boston Tea Party"
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boycott
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to refuse to buy goods
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repeal
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to take back or cancel something
