This monarch/ruler believed it was the responsibility of the colonists to pay for the debt of the French and Indian War.
Who is King George III?
100
Colonists did this to get around paying the taxes on sugar, molasses and other products shipped into the colonies.
What is smuggling goods?
100
Colonists used this technique to PEACEFULLY protest both the Sugar and Stamp Acts?
What is boycott?
100
The British were in debt and needed to raise revenue to help pay it off.
Why the British imposed the Stamp and Tax Acts?
200
What is in a uniform or same way.
How did the British want to rule the 13 colonies?
200
This man from the Virginia House of Burgesses vigorously protested against the Stamp Act.
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
England was in heavy debt following the war and didn't feel like paying the bill. King George III hoped to gain this from the colonists by imposing taxes on them.
What is for revenue or income?
200
This law was a means of maintaining peace with the Native Americans and providing safety to the colonists if they settled in the Ohio Valley?
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?
200
This act was a cost saving measure to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
Colonists had been able to rule themselves in this way before the French and Indian War?
What is salutory neglect/hands-off policy?
300
This Massachussetts lawyer is famously quoted as saying "No taxation without representation!"
Who is James Otis?
300
Imposed on SWEETS that were sold in stores, this law affected mainly affected the store owners?
What is the Sugar Act?
300
Colonists, angered by the Stamp Act, did this to tax collectors and officials. This caused many officials to quit their jobs!
What is tarring and feathering?
300
Petitioning, boycotting and setting economic sanctions are all a peaceful way of doing this?
What are ways of protesting?
400
Parliament's first law to keep colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
This man became leader of the Sons of Liberty, a secret society made up of lawyers and merchants who were directly impacted by the Stamp Act.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
British troops came to stay at your house, eat your food and take your supplies all because of this Act?
What is the Quartering Act?
400
Parliament did this with the Stamps Act in 1766, because they saw that it was a mistake.
What is repeal/take back the law?
400
All documents were affected by this act. You couldn't live or die without paying for it.
What is the Stamp Act?
500
Colonists chose to do this about the Proclamation of 1763.
What is ignore the law and move anyway?
500
This SECRET SOCIETY was organized by merchants, lawyers and crafts people who used tarring and feathering, fights and boycotts as methods of protest.
What arethe Sons of Liberty?
500
This Act affected the legal documents of all colonists. You couldn't send a letter, live or die without one. It directly taxed the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
500
Colonists refused to buy goods that were taxed as a way of peacefully protesting.
What is boycott?
500
Nine colonies sent delegates to New York City to the Stamp Act Congress to sign this as a means of peacefully protesting the Stamp Act.