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Mercantilism was a theory of trade stressing that a nation’s economic strength depended on exporting more than it imported. British mercantilism manifested itself in triangular trade and in laws passed between the mid-1600s and the mid-1700s, such as the Navigation Acts (1651-1673), aimed at fostering British economic dominance. |
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| The Mayflower Compact is often cited as the first example of self-government in the Americas. The Pilgrims, having arrived at a harbor far north of the land that was rightfully theirs, signed the Mayflower Compact to establish a “civil body politic” under the sovereignty of James I. |
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| Intolerable Acts, passed in 1774, were the combination of the four Coercive Acts, meant to punish the colonists after the 1773, Boston Tea Party and the unrelated Quebec Act. The Intolerable Acts were seen by American colonists as a blueprint for a British plan to deny the Americans representative government. They were the impetus for the convening of the First Continental Congress. |
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| British laws meant to punish the colonists after the Tea Party which closed Boston Harbor and enforced the Quartering Act. |
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| A tax on all imported goods from England including lead, paper, tea, paint, and glass. Created after the Stamp Act was repealed. |
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| A law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay a tax on printed documents, such as newspapers and books. |
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