APUSH 1 Unit 3 Flashcards (1763 to 1774)

Townshend Acts of 1767

This law generated a tax on mostly NON-EDIBLE items, including paint and lead.

Declaratory Act of 1766

This law asserted Britain's ability to create tax legislation for the North American colonies.

Townshend Acts of 1767

Series of laws that indirectly led to the Boston Massacre.

Intolerable Acts of 1774

Laws issued in response to the Boston Tea Party.

Revenue Act of 1767 (Townshend)

Law that was used to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges.

Stamp Act of 1765

Inspired the creation of the Sons of Liberty.

Currency Act of 1764

Forbade colonies from using paper money.

Administration of Justice Act (Intolerable)

British government and military officials accused of crimes would face trial in Britain, not the colonies.

Tea Act of 1773

Law that gave a specific business a monopoly over a specific industry in the colonies.

Boston Port Act of 1774 (Intolerable)

Law that closed the port at Boston Harbor until the British East India Company was reimbursed.

Quebec Act of 1774

Law that gave French colonists access to most of the Ohio River Valley.

Sugar Act of 1764

Tax that ended salutary neglect and taxed coffee and wine.

Vice-Admiralty Court Act of 1768 (Townshend)

Law that created 3 new Admiralty Courts in the colonies.

Massachusetts Government Act of 1774 (Intolerable)

Law that suspended the Massachusetts representative government.

Writ of Assistance

Term for a legal order, similar to a search warrant, issued to find smuggled goods

Admiralty Courts

Court system specifically designed to prosecute smugglers

Daughters of Liberty

Group that focused on recruiting women to support the rebellion/boycotting efforts

Stamp Act Congress

Group that met in New York in response to controversial 1765 legislation

Boston Tea Party

December 1773 event in response to the creation of a monopoly on tea

Boston Massacre

Event memorialized by a biased engraving by Paul Revere

Nonimportation Agreements

Term used for boycotts carried out by colonists in opposition to British Legislation

Boston

A second Quartering Act was designed by Parliment in 1774 targetting this city

British East India Company

Bussiness that was given a monopoly on the tea trade in the American colonies in 1773

Navigation Acts

Old laws from the 1600s that limited who American colonists could buy/sell from

Rum Industry

The industry in New England that was damaged by the Sugar Act of 1764

Mercantilism

Term for the belief that the American Colonies only existed to support the "mother country"

Radical Whigs

Political Group that was highly suspicious of political power structures

British Advantages

• Professional army with 50,000 men

• Could hire foreign soldiers (German Hessians)

• 50,000 Loyalists and Natives

• Colonists had poor and disorganized military

Colonial Advantages

• Ireland

• English doubt of conflict (Radical Whigs, fellow Anglo-Saxons)

• Home-field Advantage (geography, guerilla warfare)

• Great leaders (Washington, Lafayette, Steuben, Franklin)

• French were sore losers like the bums they are

Republicanism

Belief that the government should be based on the consent of the governed (representative government) emphasizing civic virtue