APUSH Vocab Quiz 1

Sugar Act

A tax was placed on colonial imports of sugar, coffee, and wine

Vice-admirality courts

Tribunals governing the high seas and run by British appointed judges

Stamp Act 1765

A tax (stamp) on every printed document- mainly impacted professions like lawyers

Virtual Representation

the argument against the colonists call for no taxation without representation in which the colonists gained representation through the merchants and trade that passed through England

Stamp Act Congress

a representative committee that protested Americans' loss of rights and liberties via the Stamp and sugar acts

First Continental Congress

a meeting of representatives from the colonies with the main goal of getting the intolerable acts repealed and to bring back Salutory Neglect-Suffolk Resolves

Second Continental Congress

a meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies with the main goal of rasing a colonial army and issueing/borrowing money-drafted Articles of Confederation

Sons of Liberty

a group that organized and enforced boycotts so that Britain would lose money, (Patrick Henry, Sam Adams)

Townsend Act 1767

new taxes on lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea

Committees of Correspondence

a system that allowed patriots to communicate w/ leaders in other colonies when new threats to liberty occured

Coercive Acts

in a response to Patriot push back, the King enacted acts that would force Massachusetts to pay for the tea and to submit to imperial authority

Quartering Act

An act that required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops