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Foreign Rel-Midterm
International Relations for Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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documents; Due to the opposition and the decline in British imports caused by the non-importation movement Parliament repealed it; Benjamin Franklin testified in Parliament against these taxes | Stamp Act |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| Passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed, it said that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally | Declaratory Act |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 |
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