Timeline
What year did Parliament pass the Stamp Act?
1765
CAUSE: England was in debt from the French and Indian War.
EFFECT: The British government placed taxes on American colonists.
EFFECT: The colonists in Boston had the Boston Tea Party.
What was the name of the law that taxes printed materials in the colonies?
Stamp Act in 1765
What is a boycott?
A refusal to buy goods.
What year did Parliament repeal the Stamp Act?
1766
CAUSE: England put the Stamp Act into place to tax the colonists after the war.
EFFECT: Colonists refused to pay.
EFFECT: First Continental Congress decided to stop trading with England and start learning to fight.
CAUSE: Britain would not remove all taxes.
What did the colonists mean when they said "No taxation without representation"?
Since the colonists never voted for Parliament, England had no right to tax them.
What did the Sons of Liberty do to scare stamp agents?
Burnt stamps, attacked stamp agents, burned their homes, hung puppets from trees.
What year did Parliament pass the Townshend Acts?
1767
CAUSE: England placed a tax on all imports.
EFFECT: Colonists refused to buy imports. They made their own goods instead.
EFFECT: The beginning of the Revolutionary War.
CAUSE: The Second Continental Congress declared independence from England.
Sons of Liberty
What did the Daughters of Liberty do to help the boycott on imports?
They began weaving their own cloth instead of using British wool.