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Preisinger History 7
Chapter 3 The English Colonies
Question | Answer |
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Were put in place to punish Boston for the Tea Party | Coercive Acts |
A gathering to decide on important issues | Town Meeting |
Religious group called the "Society of Friends" | Quakers |
One of the first attempts at self - government protecting the general good | Mayflower Compact |
Allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to the colonists | Tea Act |
First permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
Duties placed on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea | Townshend Acts |
Religious movement that included revivals | Great Awakening |
Group who wanted to purify, or reform the Anglican Church | Puritans |
Movement where reason and logic explained things and improved society | Enlightenment |
Passed to reduce the powers of the English monarch | English Bill of Rights |
The practice that nations controlled trade to get rich | Mercantilism |
Samuel Adams help found this group that challenged British laws | Committees of Correspondence |
How did colonists choose to oppose taxes | Boycotting |
Not part of Coercive Acts | Soldiers were found not guilty by reasons of self defense |
Not part of Navigation Acts | All goods had to be shipped to New York Harbor |
Why did the colonists choose to call the Coercive Acts, Intolerable Acts? |