Short definitions please??

Question

I got stuck on these on my American Revolution hw. Thanks!!
Navagation Acts:
Triangular Acts:
Green Mountain Boys:
Townshed Acts:
Nonimportation Acts:

Answer 1

type into wikipedia.org

Answer 2

The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which, beginning in 1651, restricted foreign shipping. Resentment against the Navigation Acts was a cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the American Revolutionary War.

The Green Mountain Boys were a paramilitary infantry organized in Southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War. They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, what is now modern Vermont.

The Townshend Acts were passed in 1767 by the British Parliament, having been proposed by Charles Townshend, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, just before his death. These laws placed a tax on common products, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea (though they did not place a tax on silk).

Nonimportation Act: see Embargo Act of 1807.
The first attempt was the Nonimportation Act, passed Apr. 18, 1806, forbidding the importation of specified British goods in order to force Great Britain to relax its rigorous rulings on cargoes and sailors (see impressment). The act was suspended, but the Embargo Act of 1807 was a bolder statement of the same idea. It forbade all international trade to and from American ports, and Jefferson hoped that Britain and France would be persuaded of the value and the rights of a neutral commerce. In Jan., 1808, the prohibition was extended to inland waters and land commerce to halt the skyrocketing trade with Canada.

Answer 3

navigation acts: Various mercantilist laws enacted by Great Britain between 1650 and 1767 sought to control American commerce on the high seas. These eventually became an additional abrasion between the mother country and the American colony.

The Green Mountain Boys (also spelled Green Mountain Boyes) were a paramilitary group organized in Western Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War. They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, what is now modern Vermont. New York was given control of the area by a decision of the British crown and refused to respect the New Hampshire Grants and town charters. ...

townshed acts: The Townshend Acts were passed in 1767 by the British Parliament, having been proposed by Charles Townshend as Chancellor of the Exchequer just before his death. These laws placed a tax on common products, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea. In contrast to the Stamp Act, the laws were not a direct tax but a tax on imports. There was opposition to this in the British colonies of North America, using the slogan "no taxation without representation" spoken by James Otis.

Answer 4

Navigation Acts, government, occupations, customs, religion, education, incuding maps, colonial wars, histories of original colonies, Civil War, slavery.
Green Mountain Boys, popular name of armed bands formed 1770.
The Townshend Acts were passed in 1767 by the British Parliament, to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America.
More on Nonimportation Act from Infoplease:. Embargo Act of 1807 - Embargo Act of 1807, passed Dec. 22, 1807, by the US Congress in answer to the British

Answer 5

The Green Mountain Boys were led by Ethan Allen. Verte Montaigne (Green Mountain) is the French derivation of Vermont.

Answer 6

The Navigation Acts were efforts to put the theory of mercantilism into actual practice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountain_Boys

The Townshend Acts were a British trick to cut the British land tax and tax the colonists

srry i couldent find all em'

Answer 7

http://www.kidskonnect.com/AmericanRevolution/RevHome.html try this site if that dosent work then type in american revolution acts and you will get a list of sites to go to

Answer 8

use dictionary.com