QUIZ 9 - Chapter 5: The Acts

British Concerns After 1763

1. Sovereignty

2. Control

British Policies After 1763

1. Navigational Acts enforcement

2. Americans must pay taxes

3. No limited autonomy

4. No westward expansion

Benefits of Mercantilism

1. Guarantee of market

2. British Navy protection

Problems of Mercantilism

1. Britain > America

2. Serve Britain only

Folly

The pursuit of an unattainable policy and destroying yourself in the process

- The British taxing America

George Grenville

The first British Prime Minister of 10 who implemented the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765

Sugar Act of 1764

The act replacing the Molasses Act, charging 3 pence per gallon of sugar

- Less tax but enforced

Writ of Assistance

Blank search warrants, illegitimate search warrants

Vice-Admiralty Courts

Juryless nautical courts without due process, where defendants were guilty before proven innocent

Due Process of Law

The rights of people suspected of breaking the law, such as a right to jury, trial, lawyer, and silence, and innocent before proven guilty

Colonists Reaction to Vice-Admiralty Courts

1. Protests

2. Letters

3. Smuggling

Stamp Act of 1765

The act taxing 54 printed items

- Reappealed in 1766 because of boycotts

Boycott

An economic weapon to bankrupt

Declaratory Act of 1766

The act passed after the Stamp Act repeal to assert Parliament's supreme authority in all matters

Iceburg

Top: No taxation without representation

Bottom: Sovereignty

Sovereignty

The supreme authority to make decisions and create laws

- Does Britain or the colonists have the sovereignty to tax the American colonies?