quiz#2 for history

1751

Currency Act

1761

Writs of Assistance

1763

Proclamation Act

1764

Sugar Act

1765

Stamp Act & Quartering Act

1766

Declaratory Act

1767

Townshend Act

1773

Tea Act & Intolerable Act

Currency act

Gov, council, or assembly are prohibited from passing or making any act to print or create their own money/bills

Writs of assistance

gave British officials right to search property for smuggled goods without specific cause or suspicion

Proclamation act

Strictly forbidding British colonist from taking possession or move any land owned by Indians in their protection - Definitive Treaty of Peace

Sugar Act

additional tax on sugar (every purchase) —> sugar was popular

• tax money will be used to recover from war

Stamp act

tax on important documents because they must have a stamp

• no stamp = doc was not legit/accepted

Quartering act

must have soldier near your area for protection

•soldiers were provided free resources

Declaratory Act

the government has power, and if you don’t like it, it does not matter because they have the right and power to do it

Townshend Act

taxing imported/everyday goods for revenue

Intolerable act

No person could ship, unload, or lay any goods in Boston harbor until full satisfaction was made to the East India company for destroyed tea cargoes

Tea Act

They have right / freedom to trade tea and be free of change

Articles of Confederation

The nation's first constitution, drafted in York Town, Pennsylvania in 1777, which was weak and inefficient, leaving all significant authority with the individual states.

Requisitions

Requested tax payments made to the Federal Government, which lacked the power to collect taxes directly under the Articles of Confederation.

Daniel Shay

A Massachusetts farmer who led a rebellion against the Massachusetts government, highlighting the urgency and importance of convening in Philadelphia.

Annapolis Meeting (1780)

An attempted gathering of delegates in Annapolis, Maryland in 1780 to make amends to the Articles of Confederation, which failed and was rescheduled for Philadelphia in 1787.

Philadelphia Convention (1787)

A convention held during the summer of 1787 with 55 delegates present, originally convened to revise the Articles of Confederation under rules of privacy, secrecy, and an open agenda.

Rhode Island

The only state that did not send representatives to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787.

Civil Discourse

A policy structured at the Philadelphia Convention to give everyone an opportunity to speak and gather as many perspectives as possible.