American yawp, American Yawp Chapter 5, American Yawp Chapter 5 Exam Questions Marking Scheme New Update

American yawp, American Yawp Chapter 5, American Yawp Chapter 5 Exam Questions Marking Scheme New Update Patriot Whigs - Answer -Based their imperial vision on trade and manufacturing instead of land and resources. They said that the colonies should have equal status to Britain. Thought economic growth would solve the national debt. James Otis - Answer -He wrote that colonists should have the same rights as those in Britain, and sometimes even more. Colonial assemblies - Answer -After each colony was settled, assemblies were created and acted like the House of Commons in Britain. They taxed residents, managed the spending of the colony's revenue, and granted salaries to royal officers. Colonists liked the assemblies and wanted Britain to recognize them. Britain did not like them. John Locke - Answer -He had a great influence on colonial thinking, saying that people were influenced by their environments. He also said that the aristocracy were wealthy or successful because they had greater access to wealth, education, and patronage and not because they were innately superior. Because of this he pressed the importance of education. First Great Awakening - Answer -A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. This, combined with the enlightenment and deist theory placed a focus on the importance of the individual. George Whitefield - Answer -Traveling Calvinist preacher. Gave emotional sermons and said that salvation came from taking responsibility of your relationship with God,. Advocated a "conversion" experience. Also argued that too many ministers had never had this "conversion," and that this stood between the individual and God. Sugar Act - Answer -Sought to stop widespread smuggling of molasses in New England by cutting the duty in half but increasing enforcement. Smugglers would be tried in vice-admiralty courts. Currency Act - Answer -Parliament restricted colonies from producing paper money, which made it hard as they didn't have many gold or silver coins there, and they were going through a postwar recession. Stamp Act - Answer -Parliament required that documents be printed on paper to show that duty had been paid. This was the first direct tax by parliament. Because this affected many people it lead to more colonial resistance. Internal vs external taxes - Answer -Internal taxes are directly placed by Parliament, while an external tax is the colonies contributing to the empire with something like customs duties. Virginia Resolves - Answer -An anti-Stamp Act resolution passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses that said the colonies were entitled to all the rights of those in Britain. When these resolves were passed around changes were made to them, like only the colonial assemblies have a right to tax the colonies, and this made people more radical. Patrick Henry - Answer -There was Patrick Henry. Stamp Act Congress - Answer -A meeting where nine colonies sent delegates, and it said that allegiance was declared to the king, but also said that Americans have the same rights as those in Britain, and the only ones with the right to tax America, are those in their own elected assemblies. Virtual representation - Answer -Parliament and Ministry said that the colonies were virtually represented, just like those in Britain, which the colonists did not believe in. Non-importation agreements - Answer -In response to the Stamp Act, merchants in colonial ports refused to import British goods, hoping that it would make British merchants lobby for the repeal of the Stamp Act, which they eventually did. Sons of Liberty - Answer -Groups that directed and organized popular resistance in the colonies against the Stamp Act. Declaratory Act - Answer -After repealing the Stamp Act, Britain said they had the full authority to make laws that bind people in the Americas. Townshend Acts - Answer -This created customs duties on lead, glass, paint, and tea. It also created formal mechanisms to enforce compliance. Revenues from customs seizures would go to customs officers and other royal officers, so that they would want to enforce it. Vice Admirality Courts - Answer -The Townshend Acts created them to try smugglers. Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer - Answer -John Dickinson wrote in this that it was ok to pay duties for the regulation of trade, but when America only is asked to pay duties for revenue to Britain, that is not right.