10th Modern World History - Unit 4 Colonial America - Acts Flashcards
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Wool act
• 1699
Plan to increase taxation and increase control over colonial trade and production.
Navigation Act
October of 1651
Required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels mainly
effected the Dutch
Hat Act
- 1732
* It placed limits on the manufacture, sale, and exportation of colonial-made hats.
Molasses Act
• 1733
• It taxed six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies.
Writs of assistance
• 1760
• It made a search warrant officials could enter any ship or building that they suspected might hold smuggled
goods.
Iron Act
Iron Act
• 1750
• Duty-free importation of colonial pig iron and bar iron into any English port.
Line of Proclamation
Line of Proclamation
• Forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
• 1763
Currency Act
Currency Act
• Regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.
• 1751 extended in 1764
Sugar Act
Sugar Act
• Revenue raising act
• 1764
Quartering Act
Quartering Act
• The colones had to provide the British soldiers with any accommodations, housing, and food.
• 1765
Billeting Act
Billeting Act
• 1765
• The Act said the colonists had to provide guns,bullets, gun powder, and anything else they needed military
related
Stamp Act
Stamp Act
• 1765
• They had to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Such as Ship’s papers, legal documents,licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
Declatory Act
• 1766
• Repeal of the Stamp Act.
Townshend Act
Townshend Act
• Put customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
• 1767
Tea Act.
Tea Act
• 1773
• Reduced the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London
warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
Coercive Act
Coercive Act
• 1774
• Series of laws relating to colonies in passed by the British Parliament. Four of the acts were issued in direct
response to the Boston Tea Party.
Quebec Act
Quebec Act
• 1774
• Permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the
Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law.
New England Restraining Act
New England Restraining Act
• Required New England colonies to trade exclusively with Great Britain
• 1775
What did colonists view free trade as?
A natural right
That is why they smuggled
Rhode Island was the capital of__________?
Smuggling
Why did the colonists smuggle?
Out avoided taxes on the gods making them cheaper and more profitable for them
How did the English view smuggling in light of their mercantilist policy?
Stealing. Took taxes that they were using to fund the Navy and other services to the colonies.
How did prisoner exchanges during the”Seven Years War” contribute tho smuggling?
Could slip in smuggled goods under guise of delivering prisoners. Sold white flags
