Put a duty on several products. Called for harsh punishments for smugglers.
100
What did the stamp act require?
Required that the colonists buy special stamps for all kinds of paper products.
100
Why did the colonists refer to them as the Intolerable Acts?
Because the colonists thought they were very harsh. (intolerable!)
100
What did the tea act do?
Lowered price of the East India Company tea, and gave East India a monopoly. It hurt colonial merchants selling Dutch Tea. Also taxed tea.
200
Why was the Sugar Act passed?
Britain was in debt because of the war that just ended, they needed money.
200
Who passed the stamp act?
Parliament
200
Why were the Intolerable Acts passed?
It was in response to the Boston Tea Party.
200
What did the colonists have to do to get tea prior to the Tea Act?
The tea first had to be shipped to England. (All goods had to be shipped to England first.)
300
List 4 things the Sugar Act taxed.
Sugar
Molasses
Certain Wines
Printed Calico
Coffee
300
List 5 things that required a stamp.
Newspaper
Wills
Licences
Playing Cards
Insurance Policies
Contracts
Land Titles
300
What was another name for The Intolerable Acts?
Coersive Acts
300
What did the colonists do to rebel?
The Boston Tea Party.
400
Why did the colonists protest the act?
They traded in smuggled goods.
400
How did the colonists respond to the stamp act?
Colonists protested.
Patrick Henry made a speech attacking the law.
"Give me liberty or give me death."
Colonists boycotted.
Sent a petition.
400
How many laws were passed during the intolerable acts?
4
400
When was the tea act passed?
1773
500
When was the Sugar Act passed?
1764
500
When was the stamp act passed?
1765
500
List the laws passed in the Intolerable Acts.
1. Closed port of Boston.
2. Increased power of royal governor.
3. Cut town meetings, abolished upper house of Mass. legislature.
4. Strengthened Quartering Act.
500
Who was the Prime Minister of England that passed the tea act?