Section 22

Question 0

What were the advantages of the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 0

• control westward movement and avoid conflicts with north america
• keeping colonists close
• Britain could control fur trade
• Britain sent 0000 troops to colonies to protect these interests

Question 1

How do you think the colonists felt about the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 1

Angry

Question 2

Help!

Answer 2

Britain needed help supporting the new troops in the colonists to pay off the debt of the FAIW (140 million pounds)

• new taxes & enforced taxes
• writs of assistance
• prime minister-smuggling wrong
• smugglers-innocent-american juries
• custom officers -any location-smuggled goods

Question 3

How were the trials conducted?

Answer 3

they were also now conducted by naval courts w/o juries

Question 4

What did the Sugar act do?

Answer 4

• lowered tax on molases
• prime minister hoped to encourage colonists to pay tax instead of smuggling
• smuggled goods could be seized w/o going to court

Question 5

What is the stamp act?

Answer 5

-tax placed on all printed material including newspapers, wills & playing cards

Question 6

How did opposition feel about the sugar act and stamp act?

Answer 6

• parliament interfered into colonial affairs by taxing them directly
• parliament was taxing them without their consent

Question 7

What protest did Patrick Henry lead

Answer 7

• persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action

- Virginia passed a resolution that only they could lay taxes on their citizens

Question 8

What protest did Samuel Adams lead

Answer 8

• started the Sons of Liberty (an organization of protest)

- citizens also rose up burning effigies that represented the tax collectors

Question 9

What are effigies?

Answer 9

rag figures

Question 10

What happened when the colonists protested?

Answer 10

• delegates from 9 colonies met in NY in the Stamp Act Congress
• they petitioned the King saying that colonists could only be taxed by their own governments
• citizens boycotted British and European goods (thousands of merchants pledged not to buy any goods from Britain)
• British merchants lost so much business that they begged Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act
• Parliament did
• Passed Declaratory Act (Britain had the right to tax and make decisions for the Colonies “in all cases”)
• The Townsend Acts (Parliament passed external taxes on imported goods)
• merchants had to pay taxes on goods on glass, paper and tea
• Daughters of Liberty created homemade dresses & clothing
• more manufacturing in America

Question 11

What does repeal mean?

Answer 11

to cancel

Question 12

what does boycotted mean?

Answer 12

to refuse to buy

Question 13

What is the Writs of Assistance?

Answer 13

Officers enter any location to search for smuggled goods

Question 14

What is the Sugar Act?

Answer 14

lowered a tax on molasses to encourage

paying tax

Question 15

what is the stamp act?

Answer 15

tax on all printed materials

Question 16

what is the townshed acts

Answer 16

tax on all imported goods

Question 17

why did the colonists oppose the stamp act?

Answer 17

taxing without consent and direct trade

Question 18

how do colonists protest?

Answer 18

• boycott
• burning effigies
• production

Question 19

What happened when Britain got nervous?

Answer 19

• protests made British officials nervous
• redcoats were sent to Boston
• colonists saw this as infringement on right
• taxed w/o consent
• British troops were controlling the cities

Question 20

What were the redcoats like?

Answer 20

• rude
• poor, stole goods
• took second jobs which created competition for work for colonists

Question 21

What do you know about the Boston Massacre?

Answer 21

• colonial leaders used the killings as propaganda

- Sam Adams called the event a massacre

Question 22

How did the colonists rebel after the Boston massacre?

Answer 22

• colonists called for another boycott on British goods
• Britain repealed taxes, except for the one on tea
• sam adams revived Boston’s committee of correspondence which was used in earlier protests

Question 23

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 23

• British East India company facing ruin in 1773
• to save company, Parliament passed the Tea Act (this gave the company a monopoly of trade for tea in America) (a monopoly is sole control)

Question 24

What is a monopoly?

Answer 24

sole control

Question 25

What did the Tea Act do?

Answer 25

- basically let the British East India company sell right to shop keepers - started another boycott - British ships still tried to deliver the tea - 3 ships docked by government - the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks and dumped tea in harbor

Question 26

What are the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 26

- King George III thought he was losing control | - Parliament passed the Coersive Acts which were meant to punish the people of Boston

Question 27

Intolerable Acts | what happened to Boston Harbor?

Answer 27

-it was closed until the colonists paid for the tea. BUT, the other colonies sent them food

Question 28

Intolerable Acts | -what happened to town meetings?

Answer 28

-town meetings were suspended in New England the colonists rights were trampled, so they were angered

Question 29

Intolerable acts | What were Bostonians forced to do?

Answer 29

-shelter soldiers in their homes Rights violated as British citizens

Question 30

What happened when the crown gave land to colonial Quebec?

Answer 30

Gov for Quebec was set up, they were given land west of the Appalachian mountains