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Date Posted: 15:23:04 03/28/01 Wed
Author: lynette
Subject: 1st page - finish of the ones we didn't know

Regulators - 176something. Scotch-Irish small and nasty rebellion in NC against eastern domination of colony's affairs.

East India Tea Company Act - gave EITea a privileged position in American markets in order to help pay off EITC debts. Expensive, only tea offered in America. 1774.

Committees of Correspondence - started by VA in 1773 they were established in every colony. Carried messages, ideas, and info through other colonies, evolved into 1st Congress. These made the colonies favor united action.

4 Intolerable Acts (Townshend Acts)
#1 - 1774 Boston Port Act. Closing of Boston's harbor to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party. Port closed until price of tea destroyed was paid.
#2 - MASS Gov't Act forbade public meetings unless sanctioned by the governor. (royal guv'nor i'm guessing?)
#3 - Administration of Justice Act. Any British officials accused of capital offenses were to be sent to Britain for trial. Americans believed they'd be left off easily.
#4 - Quartering Act forced residents of MASS to feed and house the British soldiers of the King.

Olive Branch Petition - 1775 American message to King George III urging a return to the "former harmonY' that had existed between Britain and the colonies.

Wealth of Nations - 1776 political economist Adam Smith's view. He judged the significance of colonies by examination but held a bias because he disapproved of excessive regulation of colonial trade by their parent countries. Other ideas were that the discovery of the New World had brought wealth and prosperity to the Old World as well as divided mankind. Insightful, dispassionate, passage of economic theorist who discussed the problems in lanuguage understandable to all.

Mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line - ?? COULDN'T FIND. WILL LOOK IN MR T'S OTHER BOOKS AT NEXT MEETING.

Land Ordinance of 1785 - acreage of Old Northwest was to be sold and the money was to be used to help pay off the national debt. Also, towns were to be divided into 36 sections, one square mile per section and the land was to be surveyed.

Suffolk Resolves - resolutions endoresed by the 1st Continental Congress in 1774. Denounced Intolerable Acts, urged colonies to form militias, called on colonies to suspend trade with the British empire.

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