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| Issued by the Privy Council, it tried to prevent the colonists from enroaching upon Idian lands by prohibiting settlemen west of the Appalachian watershed unless the government first purchased those lands by treaty. |
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| Head of the British gov't from 1763 to 1765, Grenville passed the sugar act, Quartering act,and the Stamp Act. Provoking the imperial crisis from 1765-1766 |
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| Great indian uprising against the British in 1763-1764 |
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| Passed by the administration of George Grenville in 1765, the Stamp Act imposed duties on most legal documents in the colonies and on newspapers and other publications. Massive colonial resistance to the act created a major imperial crisis |
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| Passed by Parliment in 1767, this act imposed important duties on tea, paper, glass, red & white lead, and painter's colors. It provoked the imperial crisis of 1767-1770. In 1770, parliment repealed all of the duties except the one on tea. |
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| The colonial term for the confrontation between colonial protestors and british soldiers in front of the customs house on March 5, 1770. Five colonists were killed 6 were wounded. |
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| In December 1773, Boston Son's of Liberty threw 342 chests of East Indian Company tea into Boston Harbor rather than allow them to be landed and pay the hated tea duty |
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| Four Coercive Acts were passed in the spring of 1774 by British Parliament. The Boston ports were closed until the colonist paid for their tea, and a new Quartering Act was passed that allowed soldiers to stay amoung civilians if necessary. The Justice Act was also passed which stated, that if a Britsh soldier or Official were convicted of a crime while carrying our his duties was permitted to be tried in another colony or England. The Massachusetts Act was the most hated by the colonists though, it made the council appointive and restricted town meetings. |
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12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to organize resistance against the Coercive Acts by defining their rights as Americans, petitioning the king, and appealing to the British and American people. It created the Association, local committees in each community to enforce no importation. |
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| The intercolonial body that met in Philidelphia in May 1775 a few weeks after the battle of Lexington & Concord It organized that the Continental Army, appointed George Washington, commander-in-cheif, and simultaneously pursued pol policites of military resistance and conciliation. When conciliation failed, it chose independence in July 1776 and in 1777 drafted the articles of confederation, which finally went into force in March 1781. |
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Grenville passed the act in response to the wartime protests of the London merchants against Virginia’s paper money Restricted the use of paper money in the colonies as legal tender. |
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| Prompted by Grenville in 1764, the Sugar Act was passed to help fund the protection and securing of the colonies. The Act placed duties on wine, coffee and other products. It also helped jump started Grenville’s war against smugglers. It required the ship captains to have specific paperwork and allowed seizures of ships if there were technicalities, the act encouraged them to prosecute the violators. |
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| Requested by Sir Thomas Gage, Amhert's successor as army commander. Gage asked parliment if he could quarter soldiers in private homes if neccessary. The act also stated that the soldiers were to be given specific supplys like beer and candles, which the assembly was already doing. The act only permitted soldiers to stay in public buldings like taverns and not in private homes. This act did not solve any problems, only presented new ones. |
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| What was the purpose of the Stamp Act |
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| The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier |
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| Nonimportation agreements |
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| The decision to stop importing British goods in order to protest their taxations |
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A statesman and a patriot who served as president of the Second Continental Congress. Hancock was one of Boston's leaders during the crisis that led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. He served more than two years in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and as president of Congress, was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
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| A group of American Patriots that originated in the 13 colonies, it was formed to protect the rights of the colonists from the British Gov’t. They are most well know for the Boston Tea Party which prompted the Intolerable Acts. |
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| Nonimportation agreements |
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| The decision to stop importing British goods in order to protest their taxations |
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| What were the causes and significance of the Boston Massacre? |
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| The colonists had reached their breaking point with the British after an 11 year old boy was shot and killed in a crowd of stone throwing civilians. An angry mob descended on the guards throwing rocks and snowballs. A soldier allegedly slipped causing his musket to fire thus prompting the rest of the men to fire as well. Civilians were killed and wounded and the British Army had done it unlawfully because the civilians were not wielding fatal weapons. This marked the failure of Britain’s first attempt at military coercion. |
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