APUSH Cram - Aiming for 5
  • Home
  • Cramming
    • Colonies - American Revolution (1607 - 1789)>
      • Colonies
      • Acts of Parliament
      • Continental Congress & Articles of Confederation
      • American Revolutionary War
      • Aftermath of Revolution
      • Constitution & Acts
    • Washington - Tyler (1789-1845)>
      • George Washington (1789-1797)
      • John Adams (1797-1801)
      • Court Cases (Marshall court)
      • Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
      • James Madison (1809-1817)
      • James Monroe (1817-1825)
      • John Qunicy Adams (1825-1829)
      • Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
      • Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
      • William Henry Harrison (1841)
      • John Tyler (1841-1845)
    • Manifest Destiny - Antebellum (1846 - 1860)>
      • Slavery and Sectioanlism
      • Religious & Social Movement
      • Manifest Destiny
      • What Led to the Civil War
      • Economic Development
      • James Polk (1845 - 1849)
      • Zachary Taylor (1849~1850)
      • Millard Fillmore (1850~1853)
      • Franklin Pierce (1853~1857)
      • James Buchanan (1857~1861)
    • Civil War - Industrilization (1861 - 1897)>
      • Court Cases (Post-Civil War)
    • Progressive Era - WWI (1900 - 1918)
    • Roaring Twenties - WWII (1920 - 1945)
    • The Golden Age - The Cold War (1950 - 1990)
    • American Foreign Policy (the Big Picture)
  • Resources
    • Brinkley Outline>
      • Ch. 1 :: The Meeting of Cultures
      • Ch. 2 :: Transplantations and Borderlands
      • Ch. 3 :: Society and Culture in Provincial America
      • Ch. 4 :: The Empire in Transition
      • Ch. 5 :: The American Revolution
      • Ch. 6 :: The Constitution and the New Republic
      • Ch. 7 :: The Jeffersonian Era
      • Ch. 8 :: Varieties of American Nationaism
      • Ch. 9 :: Jacksonian America
      • Ch. 10 :: America's Economic Revolution
      • Ch. 11 :: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
      • Ch. 12 :: Antebellum Culture and Reform
      • Ch. 13 :: The Impending Crisis
      • Ch. 14 :: The Civil War
      • Ch. 15 :: Reconstruction and the New South
    • Useful Links
    • THE Cram Packet (pdf)
    • Comment
Navigation Acts
1660 : closed colonies to all trade except that carried on English ships (including colonial-built ships) / tobacco trade with England only
1663 : all goods sent from Europe to the colonies must pass through England first
1673 : imposed custom duties (import fees) on coastal trade to stop smuggling

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Acts of Parliament
post French-Indian War (1763)

*ongoing: Committee of Correspondence for boycotts

Proclamation of 1763 : colonists cannot cross Mt. Appalachian
        but settlers still crossed
        1768: new agreement with Western Tribes
Sugar Act (1764) : sugar duty up, molasses duty down
        boycotts
Currency Act (1764) : colonial assemblies cannot issue paper money
        discouraged trades
Stamp Act (1765) : tax all printed documents
        boycotts, “Virginia Resolves” (Patrick Henry at House of Burgesses)
        repealed in 1766; at the same time, Declaratory Act
Mutiny Act (1765) / Quartering Act (1766) : colonists have to provide food and shelter for British troops
        Britain disbanded NY assembly, imposed new taxes
Declaratory Act (1766) : Britain has rights to create laws in the colonies
Townshend Acts (1767) :
        1) [revenue act] tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, tea
        2) [indemnity act] remove duties on East Indian Company’s tea
        3) [commissioners of customs act] strict regulations to halt smuggling
        4) [vice admiralty court act] smugglers would be persecuted even w/out judges
        5) [NY restraining act] disbanding NY assembly until they agree to Mutiny Act
        boycotts on tea; “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” (John Dickinson) : Britain cannot tax for the purpose of raising revenue
Boston Massacre (1770)
Samuel Adams (1772) in Committee of Correspondence accused English
Tea Act (1773) : East Indian Company selling tea without paying regular taxes
        boycotts tea; “Boston Tea Party”, “Son / Daughter of Liberty”
        passed Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) as punishments
Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts (1774)
        1) [MA gov. Act] reducing MA gov. power
        2) [Boston Port Act] close Boston port until Tea Party loss was paid
        3) [Administration of Justice Act] royal officers who have killed ppl can be trailed back to England
        4) [Quebec Act] Quebec boundary increased
First Continental Congress (1774)
“Conciliatory Propositions” (1775) : colonies would tax themselves at Parliament’s demand
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.