Flashcard-Colonial America Taxation and Protests

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What caused Great Britain to begin taxing the colonies after the French and Indian War?

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Britain needed money to pay war debts

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Which Act required colonists to buy special stamps for legal papers and newspapers?

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Stamp Act

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How did colonists protest the Stamp Act?

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Boycotted British goods

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What did the Declaratory Act say about the colonies?

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Parliament could make laws for the colonies.

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What did the Quartering Acts require?

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Colonists to house British soldiers

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Why were the Intolerable Acts passed?

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To punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party

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Which statement best describes the meaning of the slogan “No Taxation Without Representation”?

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Colonists believed that Parliament had no authority to tax them.

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Which document, signed in 1689, expanded citizens’ rights and declared there would be no taxation without representation?

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English Bill of Rights

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Which action completes this diagram? Options: Colonial agricultural trade increases., Colonial religious devotion increases., Colonial demand for political change increases., Colonial demand for military assistance increases.

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Colonial demand for political change increases.

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declaring independence from the British monarchy