Chapter 6 - From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776

Charles Townshend

In June 1767 ________, Chancellor of Exchequer, proposed a new range of Township Revenue Acts which imposed duties on imports into the colonies of products such as plum, glass, paint, paper and tea.

Quebec Act

The British in the ________ authorized for the territory of France taken from the seven years of the War a permanent government, a strictly anti- republican government with the council appointed.

Fort Ticonderoga

The British garrison at ________ on Lake Champlain was taken aback in the evening of 10 May 1775 by a small New Englander army commanded jointly by Ethan Allen of Vermont and Benedict Arnold of Connecticut.

Samuel Adams

In February 1768, ________ 'letter to the chairmen of the other colonial assemblies was approved by the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.

1774

A series of acts, officially known in spring ________ as the coercive Acts but known as the Untolerable Acts by the Americans, were passed by a wrathful parliament that punished the Massachusetts colony and strengthened British power.

independence motion

The first ________ was made on 7 June 1776 by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia:"That the United Colonies should be free, independent, and, of right, is to be free of all loyalty to the British Crown and that every political relationship thereof with the State of Great Britain is and should have been dissolving totally.

sugar tariff

A(n) ________ imported into the colonies was passed by the Parliament under the so- called Sugar Act.