Empire to independence Flashcards
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| 1786707249 | Popular sovereignty | Principle that emphasized parliaments compete legislative authority within the British constitution. | 0 | |
| 1786709549 | Sugar act | Cut tax on sugar, adopted taxes to raise revenue, affected New England. | 1 | |
| 1786711253 | Currency act | Prohibited colonies from printing money, lowered value on paper money | 2 | |
| 1786713238 | Stamp act | Tax on all printed material-newspaper, deeds,playing cards ect. Effected all colonist. | 3 | |
| 1786722427 | Quartering act | Colonies supply British tools with provisions and barracks, applied to all colonies, mainly affected NY | 4 | |
| 1786728524 | Virtual representation | Colonist reactions to the laws passed. Each member of parliament represented the interest of the whole country and empire. Couldn't influence parliament 3000 miles away, colonist refused to obey the laws. | 5 | |
| 1786731359 | Stamp act congress | Meeting to protest the stamp act. | 6 | |
| 1786734324 | Declaration act | House of Commons passed this. A shrill defense of parliamentary supremacy over the Americans | 7 | |
| 1786736721 | Townshend taxes | Levied new taxes on imports. Pay for governors and other officers do they wouldn't be dependent on colonial assemblies for wages. | 8 | |
| 1786737737 | Sam Adams | Supreme genius of revolutionary agitation. Sons of liberty. | 9 | |
| 1786742307 | Boston massacre | Confrontation between British troops and colonist of Boston. 5 citizens were killed when the troops fired. This inflamed anti British sentiment in Massachusetts. | 10 | |
| 1786781160 | Boston tea party | Assault on British ships in which American insurgents threw chests of tea into the Boston harbor as a means of protesting British taxes. | 11 | |
| 1786786228 | Tea act | Lowered price on tea | 12 | |
| 1786790040 | Coercive "intolerable" acts | British response to BTP. Ports of Boston closed, trials of officials transferred to England, no town meetings. | 13 | |
| 1786795319 | First continental congress | Meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in sept. 1774. Concedes parliaments rights to regulate commerce, sent petitions to king, boycott British goods, and endorses continental association. | 14 | |
| 1786798948 | Lexington and concord | "Shots heard around the world" | 15 | |
| 1786804677 | Second continental congress | Meeting in Philadelphia in May 1775. Named George Washington to lead continental army, and printed money to finance war. | 16 | |
| 1786810300 | Battle of bunker hill | 1st major fight. Colonial Militia held their own against seasoned British soldiers. 2 effects: high # of British casualties made the English generals cautious. Continental congress made all able men enlist Divided into loyalist and patriots | 17 | |
| 1786814614 | Olive branch petition | Professed by loyalty to king George III and begged him to stop further hostilities, rejected independence but affirmed the colonists purpose to fight rather that submit to slavery, king refused to look at it and declared colonist as "open and avowed enemies" | 18 | |
| 1786836336 | Prohibitory act | Act of 1775 was passed as a measure of retaliation by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in the American colonies, which became known as the American Revolutionary War (or, to the British, the American War of Independence). | 19 | |
| 1786850677 | Common sense | Revolutionary tract written by Thomas Paine. It called for independence and the establishment of a republican government in America. | 20 | |
| 1786860876 | Declaration of Independence | Role of Thomas Jefferson. July 4th 1776 Written to rest of the world, long list of grievances against king George III, abolished all ties with England. | 21 |