Quartering Act/Stamp Act
Definition of quartering
What is housing of troops?
One of the two Townshend Acts stated...
Daily Double: Explain BOTH of the acts.
What is:
1) Britain would no longer tax products or activities inside the colonies. It would only tax products brought into the colonies (aka IMPORTS).
2) Britain would set up a system to enforce new import taxes that included the writs of assistance.
An angry crowd of workers surrounded a small group of soldiers in the Boston Commons because of this reason.
What is protesting the Townshend Acts (though the Acts had been repealed that same day).
This was the PURPOSE of the Tea Act.
What is to help the British East India Company, one of Britain's most important companies by ONLY allowing the East India Tea Company to ship tea directly to the colonies instead of having to go through Great Britain?
The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until who paid for the tea destroyed by the Sons of Liberty.
What is the CITY of Boston.
Colonists would have to quarter soldiers in their own homes IF and ONLY IF...(2 conditions)
What is:
1) If barracks created for soldiers were too small and 2) If there are not enough public places to house soldiers?
Part of the Townshend Acts, included court orders that allowed officials to conduct searches of homes or property without consent of the owner. These court orders are known as...
What is writs of assistance?
As the crowd was protesting, they began to shout at the soldiers and grew violent by doing this action.
DAILY DOUBLE: Explain how the soldiers responded to this action.
What is throwing snowballs and rocks at the soldiers?
DAILY DOUBLE: What was firing into the crowd, killing 5 and wounding 6 protestors.
Some colonists responded to the tea act by boycotting the East India Tea Company, arguing they had a monopoly on the tea market. What is a monopoly?
What is total control by a company of a product?
The Massachusetts Government Act gave who complete control of the Massachusetts colony.
Who is the British government.
The Stamp Act required colonists to buy special stamps for these SPECIFIC items.
What is newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles, playing cards and contracts?
PATRIOTS responded by...
What is:
- New York Assembly refused to supply $ to house and feed soldiers forcing the Townshend Acts.
- Colonists boycotted British goods.
- The Massachusetts Legislature sent a petition to the King to repeal the Revenue Act that allowed the writs of assistance.
This number of the 9 soldiers were convicted, having their thumbs branded as punishment.
What is 2?
While some colonists were stopping tea from being brought ashore to cities (example New York, Philadelphia), the Massachusetts governor refused to send ships back to Great Britain. The Sons of Liberty did this in response.
Daily Double: How was this act of defiance related to the Tea Act?
What is men disguised as Native Americans boarded the ship. During the next 3 hours, they threw 342 cases of tea into the harbor. They destroyed 90,000 pounds of tea worth thousands of dollars.
What is the Sons of Liberty were dumping the tea in protest of only being allowed to purchase tea from the East India Tea Company?
The Administration of Justice Act stated that one of these groups of these people would be tried for crimes in Great Britain.
Daily Double: Name BOTH groups who were sent back to Great Brtian.
What are British soldiers and anyone accused of murdering a British colonial official.
This is the result of the Quartering Act.
What is all colonies except Pennsylvania refused to follow the Quartering Act but the British government kept the Act in place until the outbreak of war?
Tories supported the Townshend Acts because:
What is:
- It was Parliament's RIGHT to tax the colonies AND Parliament was ONLY taxing imports.
- The writs of assistance were put in place because of protesting of the other acts. If colonists followed the acts, there would be no reason to implement this.
- It was the 2nd time in history of colonial America the colonies had to pay import taxes.
The Patriots responded to the Boston Massacre by creating the Committee of Correspondence. This committee's job was to...
What is keep colonists informed of British actions. The committees wrote letters and pamphlets to spread the alarm when Britain tried to enforce unpopular acts.
A tory would continue supporting the British crown following the Boston Tea Party because...
The Tea Act lowered taxes. This is what colonists wanted.
Parliament is helping a British company who the colonists should support.
The Massachusetts governor was doing his job by keeping the ships in Boston.
A lot of money that would have benefitted ALL colonists was lost.
This is how the Quartering Act strengthened the 1765 Quartering Act.
What is Governors would now find homes to quarter British troops rather than the citizens?
This was the result of the Stamp Act.
What is Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766?
All of the Townshend Acts were repealed by Parliament EXCEPT for
What is the import tax on TEA.
People would side with the TORIES over this issue because...
(Multiple answers)
What is:
- This protest occurred AFTER the Townshend Acts were repealed. This protest was pointless in the first place!
- The soldiers were only defending themselves from the colonists who were throwing rocks and snowballs at them.
- The COLONY’s courts only found 2 of the 9 soldiers guilty of murder. Obviously the soldiers were not the only ones at fault.
- The Committee of Correspondence is trying to spread propaganda and lies across the colonies. The British government only wants to help us! Why else would they repeal almost all of the Townshend Acts?
How much money was lost by the British East India Company in today's standards?
$1,700,000
This was the result of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress was formed and the Declaration of Independence was signed, freeing the colonies from Great Britain.