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Date Posted: 12:34:32 03/27/01 Tue
Author: saira
Subject: the ones we didn't know from first page

Halfway Covenant – 1662 – partial membership rights to the unconverted Puritans
Wool Act – originally made for Ireland, suppressed American manufacturing of wool
Queen Anne’s War – Britain vs. coureurs de bois with primitive NA allies; guerilla warfare in America
John Law and the MS Company – 1717 – Scottish financier, land speculator, owned Western (MS) Co.; pledged to develop LA and give exclusive right to trade on river. French Duke of Orleans encouraged him to start bank; inflated money, went bankrupt and back to Europe
Assiento – exclusive right to supply the Spanish colonies in America with slaves, given to British in Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
Albany Plan
James Otis – lawyer agitated people to revolt, defended colonial rights against crown
Writs of Assistance – issued by British, allowed officials to conduct unrestricted searches
Hat Act – 1732 – prevented American competition with British hatmakers by restricting colonial hat manufacturing
Iron Act – above, only concerning iron
Sugar Act – 1764 – increased duty on sugar from West Indies to increase colonial revenue, lowered after protests
Stamp Act Congress – 1765, NYC, 27 delegates from 9 colonies, statement of rights and grievances to repeal – ignored, broke down sectional suspicions and stepped toward colonial unity
Declaratory Act – gave Parliament right to bind colonies in any case – futile
John Dickinson – wrote Letters from a Farmer, statement that Townshend acts were unacceptable measures to raise money

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