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US History
3.2 The Growing Divide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Proclamation of 1763 | Prohibited colonies from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains in order to reduce conflicts with Native Americans |
| Navigation and Trade Acts | Restricted trade for the colonies in order to bring greater revenue to the British treasury. |
| writs of assistance | general search warrants to search for smuggled goods anywhere including private homes |
| Sugar Act | A tax on certain goods such as sugar, molasses, and coffee that were imported into the colonies |
| Stamp Act | First direct tax on items produced and used entirely within the colonies |
| Quartering Act | Created a peacetime standing army and required housing and food from the colonists |
| Patrick Henry | Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, he presented resolutions declaring Virginians possessed all rights and privileges Englishman |
| Stamp Act Congress | Formally denounced the stamp act and it seizure of colonist rights |
| Sons of Liberty | Led by Samuel Adams. These groups protested the Stamp Act |
| Declaratory Act | Stated that Parliament had the right to pass any law that it desired regarding the colonies |
| Townsend Acts | Placed taxes on glass, paint, lead, and tea. It also strengthened the writs of assistance |
| Gaspee | An armed British customs ship |
| Committee of Correspondence | This committee provided information to other colonies about British threats |
| Tea Act | reduced the tax on tea and granted the East India Company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in America |
| Quebec Act | 1744 act for British Canada that called for a governor appointed by the Crown and no elected legislative assembly, made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec, and extended the boundaries of Quebec southward to the Ohio River |
| First Continental Congress | met in 1744 in Philadelphia with representatives from all the colonies except Georgia which adopted a statement of objections to recent acts of Parliament |
| Declaration of Rights and Grievances | This voiced their objections to thee recent acts of Parliament and stated that colonies must be self-governing |
| Continental Association | This called for all 13 colonies to boycott all imported British goods as well as the export of any goods to Britain |
| Boston Tea Party | a political protest by American colonists in 1773, in which they dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act |
| Coercive Acts | a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and assert British authority |
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