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Foreign Rel-Midterm
International Relations for Midterm
Question | Answer |
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Incident when the French prime minister demanded a bribe before meeting with American representatives about French violations of US neutrality rights | XYZ Affair |
Economic policy in which the government exercised control over industry nad colonies were believed to exist in order to provide countries with raw materials and markets for their manufactured goods | Mercantilism |
Series of naval engagements launched by President Jefferson to stop attacks on American ships by Barbary pirates | Tripolitan War |
Forbade trade with England and France, but said the US would resume trade with whichever country lifted trade restrictions first | Macon's Bill No. 2 |
British customs ship that the colonials boarded and burned | Gaspee Incident |
Law that said the colonies could not produce paper money in an effort to combat inflation in the colonies | Currency Act |
Said that British colonies could only import goods if they were shipped on British vessels | Navigation Acts |
Warned against foreign | Washington's Farewell Address |
Law that required taxes on official documents; Due to the opposition and the decline in British imports caused by the non-importation movement Parliament repealed it; Benjamin Franklin testified in Parliament against these taxes | Stamp Act |
Issued by Washington that said the US would not take sides in the fighting between France and Britain after the French Revolution | Neutrality Proclamation |
Passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed, it said that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally | Declaratory Act |
Parcels of land given out to colonists in Virginia and Maryland who brought indentured servants to America | Headright system |
Special courts established in which British judges could try colonials with no juries | Vice-admiralty courts |
Taxes that Parliament imposed on paper, lead, tea, and paint; John Dickinson protested these in "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; protests over these taxes led to the Boston Massacre | Townshend Acts |
Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party; shut down Boston Harbor; disbanded the Boston Assembly; required MS to provide provisions for British soldiers | Coercive or Intolerable Acts |
Prime Minister Robert Walpole's policy of dealing with the colonies; believed that unrestricted trade in the colonies would be profitable for England and so he did not enforce the mercantilist laws that parliament had passed | Salutary neglect |
Doctrine that a representative may not be elected by his constituents, but he can represent them in his political beliefs and goals; the type of representation that the colonials had in Parliament | Virtual representation |