What was the Quartering Act?

Citizens had to provide room and board for British Soldiers in Boston

What were the Townshend Acts?

Taxes on various items exported to America including tea

What was the Boston Massacre?

Violence between Boston citizens and British troops

After the Stamp Act, what was the slogan used by colonists to protest any British tax?

"No Taxation Without Representation"

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

Young patriots who helped enforce boycotts

Why did the British government end salutary neglect and start taxing the colonies?

The British government was bankrupt after the F/I War

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1
What did South Carolina send to Boston to help the citizens and to show their support?
Soldiers to help fight the British
Barrels of rice
Money
Ships to break the British blockade
2
What was the first British law that the colonists disobeyed after the French and Indian War ?
Tea Act
Townshend Act
Stamp Act
Proclamation Line of 1763
3
What was the Quartering Act?
Citizens had to provide room and board for British Soldiers in Boston
Boston citizens had to pay 1/4 of a British soldiers pay
Every family had to pay a British soldier 25 cents
1/4 of British soldiers in Boston had to serve as policeman
4
Identify The South Carolina leader at Stamp Act Congress.
Christopher Gadsden
Arthur Middleton
John Rutledge
Edward Rutledge
5
Who did the colonists feel had the right to tax them?
British Parlaiment
Lord Proprietors
Colonial Assemblies
State governments
6
What were the Townshend Acts?
Tax on American exports
Taxes on various items exported to America including tea
Taxes on foreign goods
Tax on Native American trade
7
What was the Boston Massacre?
A Native American attack on Boston
A battle in the French and Indian War
Violence between Boston citizens and British troops
Violence between colonists and British tax collectors
8
Identify the Act that pushed the colonists to call for a congress to protest British Laws.
The Revolution Act
The Tea Act
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
9
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True
False
10
What did the Stamp Tax Congress decide to do?
Boycott British Goods
Pay only necessary taxes
Declare independence from Great Britain
Only export to Great Britain
11
After the Stamp Act, what was the slogan used by colonists to protest any British tax?
"No Taxation Without Representation"
"No Right to Tax"
"Only By Our Assemblies Shall We Be Taxed"
"Taxation, NO!"
12
What was the first tax passed by the British in 1764?
The Stamp Act
Tea Act
Townshend Act
The Sugar Act
13
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Politicians who wanted independence
Young patriots who helped enforce boycotts
Sons of leading revolutionaries
Soldiers of the Revolution
14
Why did the British government end salutary neglect and start taxing the colonies?
Taxes had to be lowered on English citizens in England
Needed money to help settlers settle the Ohio River country
The British government was bankrupt after the F/I War
British government needed to pay war debts to France
15
What did colonists call for after the closing of Boston harbor by the British
A Colonial Congress
A Revolutionary Congress
A Continental Congress
A New England Congress
16
What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts?
Port Act
Intolerable Act
Smuggling Act
Boston Act
17
Angry about the Boston Tea Party, Great Britain passed the...
Revolution Acts
Townshend Acts
Admiralty Court Act
Coercive Acts

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