BRITISH TAX ACTS

Which act taxed molasses not produced in Britain?

• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act

The Townshend Acts put taxes on  _________.

• cloth
•  salt and sugar 
• glass, tea, paint, paper

What is a refusal to buy goods called?

• congress
• repeal
• boycott
• bankrupt

Parliament gave the East India Tea Company a _______________ on tea.

• boycott
• monopoly
• tax
• sale

How did colonists react to the part of the Tea Act that gave the east India company a monopoly on selling British Tea in the colonies?

• Happy
• Sad
• Angry

What was the main reason for the Tea Act?

• To help the British East India company
• Allow people to have Tea
• To give the East India company a monopoly on selling british Tea

The purpose of the Quartering Act was to save money.

• True
• False

What did the Stamp Act require of all the colonists?

• To save money
• To buy special tax stamps
• To vote on new laws
• To quarter, or house, soldiers

What did colonists call the Laws that were so harsh?

• Boston Tea Party
• The Stamp Act
• The Sugar Act
• The Intolerable Acts

Prior to the Tea Act, the tea first had to be shipped to ______

• Spain
• France
• Britain
• Italy