Apush Chapter 5

Republicanism

________ asserted that state power directly contrasted liberty and needed to be limited.

Continental Congress

1774: First ________ where most delegates wished to avoid war and favored policy of economic coercion.

Townshend Revenue Acts

1767: ________ placed tariffs on importations of commodities such as lead, glass, paint, paper, and tea into colonies.

Stamp Act

1765: ________ required purchase of specially embossed paper for all newspapers, legal documents, licenses, insurance policies, ships papers, even dice and playing cards.

Massachusetts Circular Letter

1768: ________ denounced Townshend Revenue Acts and attacked British plan to make royal officials independent of colonial assemblies.

Britain

1756- 1763: Seven Years War → War between Great ________ and France.

Administration of Justice Act

________ protected British officials from colonial courts.

Massachusetts

1774: The Intolerable Acts to punish ________ and strengthen British hand.

Articles of Confederation

1777: ________ adopted by Continental Congress.

public expense

Quartering Act legalized housing of troops at ________, not only in taverns and abandoned buildings but in occupied dwellings and private homes.

Bills of Attainder

________ to punish loyalists deprived of civil and property rights.

Sugar Act

1764: ________ placed a tariff on sugar imported into the colonies.

Boston Port Bill

________ prohibited loading or unloading of ships in Boston harbor until the town fully compensated the East India company and custom services for destroyed tea.

Homespun Movement

________ → The movement of American women during the Revolutionary War to boycott British clothing and materials, spinning their own, homemade cloths.

1756-1763

Seven Years War → War between Great Britain and France

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1763

Treaty of Paris, France lost all of North America mainland

1764

Sugar Act placed a tariff on sugar imported into the colonies

1765

Stamp Act required purchase of specially embossed paper for all newspapers, legal documents, licenses, insurance policies, ships papers, even dice and playing cards

1767

Townshend Revenue Acts placed tariffs on importations of commodities such as lead, glass, paint, paper, and tea into colonies

1768

Massachusetts Circular Letter denounced Townshend Revenue Acts and attacked British plan to make royal officials independent of colonial assemblies

1770

Boston Massacre

May 1773

Tea Act

Dec. 1773

Boston Tea Party where some men dressed as Indians, boarded ships, and dumped into harbor 45 tons of tea

1774

The Intolerable Acts to punish Massachusetts and strengthen British hand

1774

First Continental Congress where most delegates wished to avoid war and favored policy of economic coercion

1775

Lexington and Concord

1775

Second Continental Congress agreed military defense was the most important issue

Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)

helped persuade many to let go of loyalty to Britain, outlined Republican principles

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Battle of Saratoga turning point in the war

1781

Yorktown Surrender

1777

Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress

1783

Treaty of Paris