James Otis Jr
This is Otis' job
What is a lawyer?
This war ended and problems arose
What is the French and Indian War?
This is the date the Parliament passed the Stamp Act
What happened on 1765?
This is the date the first time the colonies met to consider acting together in protest.
What happened in October 1765?
The Parliament passed the Quartering Act on this date
What happened in 1765?
This is the date in court that Otis spoke out passionately towards his fellow peers
What happened in February 1761
This was the first of Parliament’s laws
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The Stamp Act required this
Why did it require all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid?
This secret society was run by colonists and opposed British policies
What was the Sons of Liberty?
The Sugar Act placed taxes on these things
Why sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies?
James Otis planted this during his first public speech
What is the seed of freedom?
This problem arose when the war ended
Why had Britain wanted to govern its 13 original colonies and the territories gained in the war in a strict way?
This item was used to pay for the stamps during the Stamp Act
What were silver coins?
The Sons of Liberty protested by doing these things
Why did Sons of Liberty burned the stamped paper and attacked custom officials?
This is what the Quartering Act did
Why was it a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies?
This is the reason why Otis stormed through the streets of Boston furious
Why was Otis' father just been denied the post of chief justice of the Massachusetts colony?
This is what the Proclamation of 1763 told the colonists they could not do
Why couldn't the colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?
These items had to be stampedaccording to the Stamp Act
Why diplomas, cotracts, wills, and newspapers?
This date is when the Parliament repealed the Stamp Act
What happened in 1766?
The Sugar Act was passed by this Parliament for this reason
Why did they want the colonists to pay part of the war debt?
Otis believed this was illegal
What was the use of search warrants that allowed customs officers to enter any home or business to look for smuggled goods?
This imposed new laws and restrictions in London
What was The British Parliament?
This issue colonists saw through the Stamp Act
Why were colonists being taxed without their consent by a Parliament in which they had no voice?
This law was passed after the Stamp Act was repealed
What was the Declaratory Act?
This colonial leader claimed that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies, since the colonists were not represented in Parliament.
Who is James Otis Jr.?