Conflicts in the Colonies 6-3

Who was the British prime minister who looked to the American colonists to pay Great Britain's debts from the French and Indian War?

• Winston Churchill
• Patrick Henry
• George Grenville
• William Pitt

What was the first law passed by Parliament specifically designed to raise money in the American colonies called?

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Currency Act
• Tea Act

What was the law passed by Parliament that banned the colonies from printing their own money call?

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Currency Act
• Tea Act

What were the types of courts in which suspected smugglers were assumed to be guilty until they were proven innocent called?

• appellate
• district
• vice-admiralty 
• pirate

What were the groups of colonists that contacted towns and colonies to share ideas and information about new British laws and ways to challenge them called?

• Sons of Liberty
•  terrorists
• patriots
• Committee of Correspondence

What is a popular method of protest among the colonies in which the colonists would refuse to buy certain British goods?

• strike
• sit in
• riot 
• boycott

What was the law passed by Parliament requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, pamphlets, licenses, and playing cards called?

• Print Act
• Stamp Act
• Currency Act
• Publishers Act

Who was the secret colonial society that used violence to frighten tax collectors?

• Sons of Liberty
• Committee of Correspondence
• Patriots
• KKK

Who was the Virginian who presented a series of resolutions to the House of Burgesses stating that the Stamp Act violated the rights of the colonists as British citizens?

• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Jefferson

Who was the member of Parliament who believed that the Stamp Act was unjust and who persuaded Parliament to repeal it?

• George Grenville
• Patrick Henry
• William Pitt
• Benjamin Franklin