Term
|
Definition
tightened the collection of trade duties
the British Royal Navy seized American ships that were trading with the French West Indies |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| banned American colonies from paying debts with paper money |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| replaced the 1733 Molasses Act, lowered the tax on molasses but took extra measures to be sure that this tax was enforced. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| required stamps on all printed documents (including the receipt for the stamps) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1765, required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for all British troops stationed within their borders |
|
|
Term
| The Stamp Act Congress 1765 |
|
Definition
| New York City, 1765, resulted in the Stamp Act Resolves, which declared that only the colonists' own elected representatives could tax them. This was meant to be a compromise, not a confrontation. It resulted in a boycott of British goods |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1767, imposed duties on colonial imports on paper, paint, glass, and tea |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| suspended the New York assembly, forcing them to comply with the Quartering Acts. This demonstrated to the colonists that assemblies could only exist as Parliament allowed |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1773, lowered the price of British tea and excluded American vendors from the profits of trade |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| annulled the Massachusetts charter, forced them to pay for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party, prohibited most town meetings, and transferred trials out of the colonial jurisdiction (the Intolerable Acts) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| allowed Roman Catholicism in Quebec |
|
|
Term
| The Declaration of Rights and Grievances 1774 |
|
Definition
resulted from the Continental Congress in September 1774, declared that Parliamentary control be limited to matters of trade
it also proposed cutting off imports from Britain |
|
|
Term
| The Declaration of Independence 1776 |
|
Definition
| declared King George III "unfit to be the ruler of a free people", justifying republicanism to Americans |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Lord Rockingham, lowered the duty on Molasses, repealed the Stamp Act, all while still declaring Parliament's power over the colonies |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Townshend, organized the system of customs officials more tightly, vice admiralty courts in big port cities, trying to regulate colonial law and trade policy |
|
|
