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The Proclamation Line
-organize Great Britain's new North American empire
-stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier
-ensured that British culture and laws were applied in Quebec -
Sugar Act
-Tax on sugar and molasses
-taxed silk, wine, coffee, pronto, indigo
- increase enforcement of smuggling laws ( illegal transport of goods)
-raise revenue -
Stamp Act
-was a direct tax
-required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper
-Newspapers
-Wills
-Mortgages and deeds
-Posters
-Playing cards
-Licenses (marriage and even death certificates) -
Currency Act
-the colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency
-designed to control the colonial currency system
-control the printing and use of colonial paper money -
The Townshend Act
-series of acts passed beginning in 1767
-Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea -
The Boston Massacre
-street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770 between a patriot mob, and a squad of British soldiers
-five men died and six injured
-led to the revolutionary war -
The Gaspee Affair
-a boat,Gaspee, crashed near Rhode Island
-55 men,Sons of Liberty, attacked the boat, they were lead by John Brown
-the Gaspee was a British Navy ship sent to enforce trade laws and the collection of taxes on goods shipped from Britain to America. -
Boston Tea Party
-it was protest against the tax policy that controlled imported tea
-officials refused to return taxed tea to Britian
-colonists boarded the ships and tossed the tea into the Boston Harbor -
The Coercive Acts
-there was series of 5 laws passed in response to the Boston Tea party
-the five laws included:
-Impartial Administration of Justice Act
-Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
-Boston Port Act
-Quartering Act
-Quebec Act -
"Give me liberty or give me death"
-he made the speech at St.John's church in Virginia
--the speech was made to convience his delegates of war against the British
-Patrick Henry believed Great Britian wanted war because they would not compromise with the colonies
