Early Conflicts with Britain (pages 234-235)

Early Conflicts with Britain

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Multiple Select

When we pay taxes today, where does that money go?

• To fix roads and bridges in America

• To build new schools in America

• To help cover unemployed people in Cuba

• To build schools in Russia

Multiple Choice

Where did the taxes the colonists paid go toward?

• To improve the colonies

• To help Britain

Britain Needs Money

• Britain just spent a lot of money on winning the French and Indian War.

• They are also keeping soldiers in the colonies to protect the land they won in the war.

• This is also costing money, so they think the colonists should chip in on the cost.

• British parliament decides to start collecting taxes from the colonists.

• A tax is money people pay to the government in exchange for services

• Britain put taxes on items purchased from outside the colonies- cloth, tea, glass etc.

Multiple Choice

The French and Indian War was very _______________ for the British.

• cheap

• expensive

• long

Multiple Choice

True or False: British planned to raise money by collecting taxes.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

To tax means

• to quarter soldiers

• to smuggle

• to boycott

• to charge people money to pay for government services

Multiple Choice

Who did the King feel should pay for the war?

• British

• colonists

• Spain

New Taxes

• 1764- Britain creates a new tax law called the Sugar Act

• This taxed imported sugar, coffee, cloth, etc. Items that were used every day.

• To avoid the taxes people smuggled the items into the colonies. These items were snuck in illegally.

• 1765- Parliament creates the Stamp Act

• This taxed anything printed on paper

• These new laws upset and angered the colonists.

• They wanted a vote/voice/representative of their own making these decisions

Multiple Choice

This act taxed goods like cloth, sugar, and coffee.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Cloth Act

• Coffee Act

Multiple Choice

The Colonists were happy about paying the tax.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

What year did the Sugar Act get implemented?

• 1770

• 1764

• 1782

Multiple Choice

Colonists started to do what in order to avoid the Sugar Act?

• Moved back home

• Steal sugar

• Smuggle goods secretly into the colonies

Multiple Choice

In 1765, Parliament created another tax called the...?

• Salt Act

• Stamp Act

• Jelly Act

Multiple Choice

This act taxed anything printed on paper.

• Stamp Act

• Paper Act

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

New Taxes

• The colonists wanted the colonists to make these decisions, not Britain(3000 miles away)

• They wanted representatives in Parliament

• Patrick Henry from Virginia gave a very angry speech about the taxes

• Many people heard about the speech and agreed with Patrick Henry

• Sons of Liberty formed groups all over the colonies

• Samuel Adams was the Leader

• They organized protests and would often use violence against British officials and tax collectors

Multiple Choice

What did the colonists believe?

• That England should continue to tax them.

• That other countries would help them.

• That only the colonial governments should tax the colonists.

Multiple Choice

Who Started the Sons of liberty?

• Sam Adams

• John White

• George Washington

• the colonist

Multiple Choice

Across the colonies, groups formed and called themselves the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty often held __________ to show how much they disliked the taxes.

• protests

• meetings

• held people captive

Match

Match the words to their meanings:

• Liberty

• Protest

• Tax

• Smuggling

Freedom

many people complaining about an issue

money paid to government for services

sneaking objects in illegally

• Freedom

• many people complaining about an issue

• money paid to government for services

• sneaking objects in illegally