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What were the 3 distinct parts of the British government?
- Monarchy
- House of Lords
- House of commons
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What part of English society did each part relate to in the British government fo the Monarchy?
royal family interests
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What part of English society did each part relate to in the British government for the House of Lords?
- land owners
- voting rights 20% male pop
- -Parliment
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What part of English society did each part relate to in the British government for the House of commons?
- everyone else
- -be a member of parliment had to be land owner
- -couldnt run for office
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What is the orgin for the British idea of liberty?
- Magna Carta
- -arrest somebody-> they must be charged with a crime
- -habeas corpus "produce the body"
- -trial by jury of peers
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What rights were present in the English Bill of Rights?
- 1689
- taxes imposed by legislature, not monarchy
- free spech in Parliment
- monarchy cant judge in legal cases
- citizens can petition their monarch
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What is the Royal Prerogative?
- the authority of the monarch to do what is necessary to run and protect an empire
- (ie. passports)
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Sugar Act
- 1764
- cut down on rum smuggling
- violators tried by an admiralty court in BR
- ---its a court martial by the Navy
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Quartering Act
- 1764
- taxes to house and feed troops in America
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Stamp Act
- 1765
- tax stamps on written documents
- everyone is effected by this, most protest in response
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Virginia Resolves
Patrick Henry's speech
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Sons of Liberty
- Boston to SC
- keeping people from selling tax stamps
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Townshed Acts
- up taxes, 5 items- paper, paint, lead, glass, tea
- closed NY colonial assembly over Quatering Act
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direct representation
Parliament---> colonial legislative--> taxes to citizens--> vote (in a circle)
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virtual resprentation
Parliament---> taxes to citizens
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Stamp Act Congress
- Oct 1765
- boycott of BR goods
- petition the monarch
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The response to Townshed Acts that led to the dissolution of the colonial assemblies
- boycott 1770
- 6 more colonial legislative closed for resistance to Townshed Act
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what was the ruling in the case of Campbell vs Hall?
the moarch can make law and levy taxes on a colony until the colony has its own legislature to do so (the king can no longer impose taxes)
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Coercive Acts
- (Sons of Liberty dressed as natives, took tea and threw in river in Boston)
- close Boston trade
- more troops are sent to Boston
- all local govt in MA is suspended
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Tea Act
- 1773
- allowed British India tea company to sell their tea in America with out taxes
- hopefully it made their cheaper
- increase consumption, save company from falling through
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whigs def of resistance
the act and laws of the govt
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whigs def of revolt
against the monarch himself (the king)
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2nd Continental Congress
- 1775
- Continental Army- lead by G. Washington
- Committee of Secret correspondence
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Prohibitory Act
- blockage of the American coast
- seize American ships
- hire hessian Mercenciers to help crush rebellion
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Declaration of Independence 3 parts
- I. Theory of govt- John Locke
- II. specific violations of the contract
- III. declaration
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