History Test/Quiz: Road To Revolution

What is the Colonial Government?

-It was elected by colonists

-Could make local laws on their land

What is the English Government?

-King and Parliament was all in England and no colonial memers

-Governers were apponted by the king

What were the probblems that were involving the poltical government?

1. Colonists get used to their own representation

2. Want representation in Parliament

3. England is 3,000 miles away and is too far for communication

4. Governors are chosen by King because of relationship not ability and little knowledge of colony and temporart position

What is the Mercantilism?

-The idea that the more money a country has, the more power

-Favorable Balance of Trade is an export (sell) more than you can import (buy)

How can Colonies help Economicly?

1. Cheap natural Reasources

2. Markets (customers)

If England wants to sell textiles. What do they need?

They would need COTTON to sell textiles

What do they force Colonist to do?

To only sell cotton in England.

If England manufactoors cloth for law cost. What do they need?

They need MONEY and PROFITS

If they are forceing Colonists to keep gold and silver. Where do they have to get it from?

They have to buy it from England

What is the Navigation Act in 1650's?

Acts of parliament intended to proment the self-suffcienty of the British Empire by restricting colnial trade to England decreasing dependence on Foreign Imported goods

What is the Wool Act in 1699

Prohibited American colonists from exporting wool or wool procucts outside of the colony in which it was produced

What is the Hat Act in 1732?

Birtish law restricting colnial manufacture and export of hats in direct competition with Englinsh hat makers

What is the Molessas Act in 1733

A British law that imposed a tax molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North America colonies

What is the Iron Act in 1750

Intened to stem the delvelopment of colonial manufactoring in competition with home industry by restricting the growth of the American iron industry to the supply of raw metals

What is the Engligtenment in the 1600's-1700's?

-Took ideas of the Scientific Revolution and tried to apply it to socity

-Focus on logic, reason, education, individual

Who is John Lock?

His belief that a government's powers come from the consent of the people is the foundation of modern democracy

Who is Rousseau?

He believed that the only good government was one that was freely formed by the people and guided by the "general will”of society a direct democracy

Who is Montesquieu?

He believed that Britain was the best-governed and most politcally balnced country of his own day

What is the Great Awakening in 1740's-1750's

-Response to the Englightenment

-Response to control of Puritan church

-Tent Revivals travelled from colony to colony

-Ministes like George Whitfird and Jonathan Edwards

How did the Great Awakening help cause a desire for independence?

1. Individual relation with god

2. Act together as Americans

What is the Treaty of Pairs

-France loses all Native American land expect for Hati

-Britain gets everything east of the Mississipppi River

What is the English Det?

-Has huge amounts of det

-Want the colonies to help pay for it

Who are the Native Americans?

-They are still having prolems with the colonists

What is the Proclamation 1763?

-Colonists take lands west of the Appalachains

-Pontiac leads a confederation of Native Americns and urns the towns and ends because of diseases (small pox)

-England cannot afford to fight in North America

-They decide that NO ONE can settle in New Territory

Who is upset during the Proclamation?

-Famers and land speculaters

Who is Grenville?

-New France Minester 1764.

-Knows about smuggling and salutory neglect

-the courts in colonists have cases tried in Nava society

What is the Sugar Act 1764?

-Taxes, sugar, molasses, and rum

-Drop tax to 3 cents per gallon

What is the Currency Act 1764?

-No paper money allowed any more

What is the Stamp Act 1765?

-Tax on printed material

-Have to pay for a stamp

-Direct tax

What is the Colonial Product?

Boycott is most effective because it hurts English Meerchants

What is the Stamp Act Congress?

-nine colonies together and write alelter to parlianment

What is Violance?

-Born in Effigy

-Tar and Feather

-Run out on a Rail.

What is the Declatory Act in 1766?

-Parliament can pass

-Laws about colonies

What is the Townshend Act 1767?

-Britain still needs money

-tax on lead, glass, paper, and tea

-writs of assistance had lead to permenent warrent

What were the Colonial respones to the Townshed Act?

1. Circular letters that were sent to all the colonies in the legislative body and colonies started working togther

2. Non-importation agreements (Boycott- to not buy British goods)

3. Sons of Lierty ment violence

What was the Boston Massacre in 1768?

-4,000 trops were sent to Boston and the problem was that there were 16,000 people in Boston

What happened in 1770 during the Boston Massacre?

-People crowd gathered at coustoms house and taunting "lobsterbacks" and shots were fired

-crispus attacks and 4 others died

Who is Paul Revere?

Political cartoon that circulated through colonies

Who is John Adams?

Defended the soldiers in court

What happens when Britian Repeals the Townshed Act?

What happened is that teea went down to 3 cents a pound of tea

What is the Gaspee Affair in 1772?

-Captain angered everyone in Narragansett Bay

-Ship is caught in mud

-150 Colonists burn the ship to the ground

-Jefferson calls for commities of correspondence

What is the Boston Tea Party in 1773?

-Boston East indies company has 17 million pounds

-Parliament lowers ta on tea if it is brought from British East Indies Company

-Dec. 16, 1773 150 men dump 342 crates over board

What was the Coercive Act 1774 (Intolerable)?

1. Boston port act: shut down port until tea is paid for

2. Massachussetts Goverment Act: Goverment officails now appointed by Governor not placed

3. Quartering Act: Housing soldiers in empty buildings

What is the Quebec Act?

Allowed catholicism in Canda

How did Grenville help pass the Sugar Act?

The sugar act provided for a tax on sugar, molasses, and rum to help raise money. It lowered the tax but was more strict in enforcing it. Grenville helped pass the Sugar act by reducing the taxes and to make sure it was strictly enforced.

How did the Englightenment influence the American Revolution?

The Englightenment influenced the American Revolution by promoting the ideas of individual rights, liberty, and democracy. These ideas caused the colonists to question the way things had been done and fight for their individual rights. As a result they looked for the freedom to develop their own govenemnt based on democracy.