Stamp Act
Proclamation of 1763 and Quartering Act
Declatory Act and Boston Massacre
Townshend Acts
Vocabulary
100
What was the Stamp Act a tax on?
This required that all colonists buy special tax stamps for all kinds of products and activities. The stamps had to be placed on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles, contracts and other legal documents.
100
What were two effects of the French and Indian War on Britain?
-Britain was the most powerful country in the world -Britain was in debt
100
What did the Declatory Act say?
Parliament still has total authority over the colonies.
100
List the 5 items the Townshend Acts put a tax on.
Led, paper, paint, glass and tea
100
Define boycott.
An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products
200
Why were the Stamp Act and Sugar Act passed?
The French and Indian War cost Britain a lot of money. They were in debt as a result of the war. And they still had to keep troops in North America to make sure France did not try to regain its lost territory and to protect settlers from Native American attacks. This was expensive. Britain felt the colonists should help pay part of the debt so Parliament passed these taxes.
200
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?
It banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mtns. Settlers who were already there had to move to a location east of the Appalachian Mtns.
200
What was the purpose of the Declatory Act/Why did Britain pass it?
Britain passed this to prove that although they were forced to repeal the Stamp Act because they were losing money, they still had power over the colonies. They didn’t want the colonies to think they could tell Britain what to do.
200
What were the writs of assistance?
Court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching
200
Define repeal
to cancel
300
Why did the colonists object to the Sugar Act and Stamp Act?
Colonists felt this was unjust. The tax, they claimed, went against the principle that there should be “No taxation without representation.” This principle was rooted in the Magna Carta. Colonists insisted that only they or their elected representatives had the right to pass taxes. Since colonists did not elect representatives to Parliament, Parliament had no right to tax them. The colonists were willing to pay taxes –but only if they were passed by their own colonial legislatures.
300
Why did Britain pass the Proclamation of 1763?
Britain wanted to avoid further wars with Native Americans on the frontier.
300
What were the effects of the Declatory Act?
Britain will continue to tax the colonies and more problems will arise.
300
Why did colonists object to the writs of assistance?
Colonists protested that the writs of assistance also violated their rights as English citizens. Under British law an official could not search a person’s property without a good reason for suspecting the owner of a crime.
300
Define petition
a written request to a government or someone in authority
400
What were the effects of the Stamp Act?
Once again the colonists were upset they were being taxed without representation. There were protests throughout the colonies. Many merchants organized boycotts (an organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products) of British goods. Delegates from nine colonies met in NY for a Stamp Act Congress. They sent a petition ( a written request to a government). This petition demanded that the king and Parliament end the Sugar and Stamp Act.
400
What did the Quartering Act say?
The colonists had to quarter or house British troops and provide them with food and other supplies.
400
What were the differences between Paul Revere's engraving and what actually happened at the "Boston Massacre"
-There is no snow -The colonists are not throwing anything at the soldiers -Only five colonists died he has 7 dead -The soldiers were not actually in formation as Revere makes it appear in the engraving -The colonists are not surrounding the soldiers in the engraving when in fact they did -In the engraving the soldier in the back appears to be yelling "Fire" he did not actually order his men to fire -The British soldiers reaction was panic not a deliberate massacre as Revere makes it appear -The building in the background was not actually "Butcher's Hall". He called it that to imply the British soldiers were "butchers"
400
What did colonists do to protest the Townshend Acts and did it work?
Merchants signed non-importation agreements. In these agreements, they promised to stop importing goods taxed by the Townshend Acts. Once again the protests worked. The boycott hurt British merchants and manufacturers so they put pressure on Parliament to take back the tax. Parliament repealed all the taxes except the tax on tea.
400
Define duty
an import tax
500
Why did Britain repeal the Stamp Act?
The boycott of British goods took its toll. Trade fell of by 14%. British merchants and workers who made goods for the colonies were losing money. The protests worked. Parliament repealed (cancelled) the Stamp Act.
500
What was the purpose of the Quartering Act?
Britain wanted the colonists to help pay for the soldiers they had to keep in the colonies to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 and the other taxes.
500
How did this engraving turn 
many colonists against the 
British and why did he make it that way?
The engraving portrayed 
the colonists as innocent 
victims in the massacre. It 
does not show them 
provoking the soldiers at all. 
He drew it this way to 
influence the opinions of the 
colonists. He wanted to 
convince them to fight 
against British rule.
500
Why did Britain keep the tax on tea when it repealed the taxes on all the other products?
That was left to demonstrate that although they were forced to repeal most of the taxes Parliament did have the right to tax the colonies.
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