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Chapter 8 - Lesson 1 - Trouble Over Taxes Review ...

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  • How would colonists show they have paid the printed materials tax?
    A stamp would be placed on the purchased item.
  • Who was the young Virginia lawyer to first speak out about the Stamp Act?
    Patrick Henry
  • Who started the Sons of Liberty?
    Samuel Adams
  • What was the name of the meeting where 9 colonies met to discuss the Stamp Act?
    the Stamp Act Congress
  • What does the protest cry “No taxation without representation!” mean?
    It meant that the colonists did not want to pay taxes imposed on them by people they did not vote for.
  • What was Benjamin Franklin’s role during this tense time?
    He was in London in direct contact with British leaders.
  • What did the British leaders send into the Boston Harbor?
    warships
  • What was the name of the law created in 1765 that put a tax on printed materials?
    the Stamp Act
  • What is a tariff?
    a tax on imported goods
  • What does repeal mean?
    cancel
  • What is a boycott?
    a refusal to buy goods
  • Name two ways that the Daughters of Liberty supported the boycott?
    made liberty tea/cloth
  • How did Parliament go against the colonists’ tradition of self-government when Parliament voted to impose a tax on them?
    The colonists had never voted for Parliament (no representation).
  • Who encouraged colonists to stop buying imported goods from the British?
    Mercy Otis Warren
  • Why did the King and Parliament think taxing the colonists was fair?
    The colonists benefited from the protection of the British soldiers.
  • Name three items the Stamp Act placed a tax on?
    legal documents, newspapers, playing cards
  • Besides the money, what else did the British hope to accomplish by imposing the Townshend Acts on the colonists?
    to show them who was in charge
  • What is an import? An export?
    items shipped into a country - shipped out of a country
  • Name two things the Sons of Liberty did to stamp agents.
    threatened them, attacked them, destroyed their homes, burned their stamps
  • What was the goal of the Sons of Liberty?
    to protest the Stamp Act
  • What is the name of Britain's law making assembly?
    Parliament
  • What two authorities supported the taxing of the American colonies?
    Possible responses - the Prime Minister, the King, Parliament
  • What is the name of the colony's legislature?
    the House of Burgesses
  • What did the colonists want Parliament to do with the Stamp Act?
    repeal it
  • In 1766, the Stamp Act was repealed. What took its place?
    the Townshend Acts
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