Question | Answer |
Navigation Acts | 1660, 1662, 1662, 1670, 1673.
-Controlled trade between colonies & England
-Benefitted English
trade only
(mercantilism)
-Would lead to smuggling by the colonists |
French & Indian War | -Britain defeat the French and remove France from N.A. Britain receives all land east of the Mississippi River.
-Britain goes into debt paying for
the war. |
Proclamation of 1763 | -Line along the Appalachian Mountains
- Limits colonists to the coast.
-Colonists are angered that they cannot expand. |
Sugar Act | (1764)
-Lowered the tax on imported molasses
-Intended to convince colonists not to smuggle
-Also allowed British
officers to seize smuggled goods without having to go to court |
Stamp Act | (1785) -Taxed almost all printed material (newspapers, pamphlets, wills, playing cards)
-Colonists are upset because they are taxed without representation and without consent
-Effect:Sons of Liberty,Protests/Boycotts,Stamp Act Congress,Tax repealed |
Declaratory Act | (1766)
-In response to the repeal of the Stamp Act, Parliament declares it has the right to tax and make decision for the colonies. |
Townshend Acts | (1767)
-Placed import taxes on basic items like glass, tea, paper, and lead. |
Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770
-Conflict between colonists and 10 “Redcoats”
-5 dead
-British soldiers are arrested but acquitted(two guilty of manslaughter)
-Used as Propaganda: to rally anti-British support
-Committees of
Correspondence formed to spread the word |
Tea Act | (1773)
-Gave the British East India Company a monopoly on all tea imports to America |
Boston Tea Party | December 16, 1773
-Protest of Tea Act
-At midnight, Boston Sons of Liberty (dressed up as Mohawks) boarded English ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard (worth $1 million in today’s money)
-Civil Disobedience |
Coercive/intolerable Acts | |