Revolutionary War Test Flashcards
(26 cards)
Sugar Act
This act cut the price of the molasses act in half but also put a tax on textiles, wine, coffee, and sugar.
Currency Act
No more paper money just coins like in England
Stamp act
A tax is placed on all printed material
Quartering Act
Colonists were required to provide housing and food for the soliders in the colonies
Declatory act
All laws were binding in the colonies
Revenue Act
A tax was placed on all imports to the colonies
Tea act
England lowers the price of tea but keeps a tax on it so it would be the same price as usual and they would just make even more tax money
Intolerable Acts
1) closed Boston harbor until all tea was paid for
2) ability to take trials back to England
3) quartering act more strongly reenforced
4) government officials will now be appointed not elected
Quebec Act
Legislative government in Canada is appointed by King and Catholics get special privileges
Conciliatory act
Colonies can collect tax on the trade money they acquire in their boundaries but had to make voluntary contributions back to England
Continental congress
A group of representatives from each colony to pass decisions for the colonies and write important documents
Battles of Lexington and concord
First battles of the revolutionary war and the British were attacking to try and destroy the supply house of weapons of the colonies and capture Sam Adams and John Hancock
Sons of Liberty
A patriot group founded to organize protest against Britain
What are the results of the stamp act congress
The declaration of rights and grievances was passed which said that parliament had no right to pass these acts and tax the colonies
Letters of a Pennsylvania farmer
Written by John Dickinson. Says that parliament has a right to regulate colonial commerce but not change taxes to make revenue
Boston massacre
Occurred when sons of Liberty were bullying some soldiers so they shot into the crowd because they thought their lives were endangered
What was the objective of the tea act
To sell the tea that was sitting and not making England any money
Battle of bunker hill
3 waves of British soldiers came up the hill and the first 2 were defeated but the 3rd overcame the colonists
Battle of Quebec
Colonies thought they could beat England here when they were totally wrong. 2 forces came up, 1 from NY and the other from Maine. They got crushed in this battle
Common sense
Written by Thomas Paine, it is a political document saying why to fight for the colonies and convinced people to stop being loyalist
Sam Adams
A political thinker who was a leader of the sons and was in the continental congress
Ethan Allen
Leader of the green mountain boys in Vermont
Crisps Attucks
1st man to die in the Boston massacre
John Dickinson
Wrote letters of a Pennsylvania farmer
