APUSH Unit 2 Latest Update (2023/2024) Already Graded A

APUSH Unit 2 Latest Update (2023/2024) Already Graded A salutary neglect not enforcing statutes/acts because too hard or not in debt indirect tax tax on colonies but cost of tax already in price: positive reaction direct tax tax that is added to the product: negative reaction specie gold and silver coins; crown wants debt paid in it, not paper money enumerated commodity specific list of goods that could only be sold to Great Britain writs of assistance search warrants or illegal trade - broad Mercantile Laws said colonists could not export goods the British also export and skilled workers could not immigrate to the colonies Navigation Acts said everything on British ships had to be British with a 3/4 British crew, ships could only stop in British ports, and created a list of enumerated commodities (cash crops); trying to created a monopoly by controlling all trade - ended with Glorious Revolution Molasses Act tax on molasses (sugar) from any country but Britain; rum distillers in the North would get hurt and complain but not really enforced Proclamation of 1763 says English settlers cannot cross the Appalachian mountains because Britain cannot protect them from Indians; result = Pontiac's Rebellion Sugar/Revenue Act cut Molasses Act in half, but enforced; created writs of assistance; colonists got upset, especially rum distillers Currency Act cannot print paper money and all debts had to be paid in specie; drains gold and silver reserves Quartering/Mutiny Act Britain sent soldiers to enforce laws; colonists had to pay for provisions or build barracks for soldiers; colonists see soldiers as intruders, not protectors Stamp Act first DIRECT tax; on all written documents; everyone had to pay it, so big uproar; colonists created a congress Stamp Act Congress asked for repeal of stamp act and wrote petitions to Parliament; wrote Declaration of the Rights of Grievances of Congress; Parliament repealed Stamp Act because not making money Declaratory Act Parliament could tax colonies anytime; more no taxation without representation Townshend Act external duties on paint, lead, tea, and glass; John Dickinson wrote response; Parliament repealed tax on everything but tea John Dickinson wrote "Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer" Tea Act said colonists could only import tea from British East India Company because company about to go bankrupt; result = Boston Tea Party Intolerable/Coercive