APUSH: AMSCO Ch. 4

Before the Constitution the US was governed by the...

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Mayflower Compact

George Washington served for how many years?

• 4

• 8

• 3

• 12

Young Virginian lawyer who coined the phrase "No taxation without representation" in his speech to the House of Burgesses

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Patrick Henry

Great Britain had exercised little direct control over the colonies and did not enforce its navigation laws. This changed after the French and Indian War, as the British adopted more forceful policies for taking control of the colonies.

• custom duties

• salutary neglect

• mercantilism

• self sufficient

In 1763, American Indian chief Pontiac led a major attack against the colonial settlements on the western frontier. The British did not rely on colonial forces, but instead sent their army to deal with the rebellion. This led to the creation of the Proclamation of 1763.

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Pontiac's Rebellion

• Stono Rebellion

• Pueblo Rebellion

The colonists were angry and disobeyed the law, moving to the west of this imaginary boundary in large numbers.

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordisillas

• Treaty of Paris

The British government called for representatives from several colonies to meet in Albany, New York in 1754, to provide for an inter-colonial government to recruit troops and collect taxes.

• House of Burgesses

• Committees of Correspondence

• Albany Plan of Union

• Articles of Confederation

A 1764 British act which placed duties on foreign sugar and other luxuries. Its primary purpose was to raise money for the English Crown.

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Quartering Act

Quartering Act

• Placed duties on printed materials

• Assured that Parliament could pass a tax anytime they wanted

• Required colonists to house and feed British soldiers

• Led to the passage of the 3rd amendment

Guy in Mass. who organized a colonial resistance against Stamp Act.

• Samuel Adams

• Patrick Henry

• George Grenville

• James Otis