British Acts & Taxes

This act was a tax on everyday household items such as glass, paper, paint, & tea.

• Declaratory Act
• Stamp Act
• Townshend Act

a widespread refusal to buy goods as a form of protest is called a(n):

• smuggling
• strike
• boycott

These acts were passed to punish Massachusetts colony after the Boston Tea Party:

• Intolerable Acts
• Townshend Acts
• Declaratory Act

Taxes on commercial shipping occurred under the ___________ Act.

• Tea
• Stamp
• Sugar

British law that required colonists to house and supply British soldiers was called the:

• Townshend Act
• Quartering Act
• Declaratory Act

to sneak goods into a country is called:

• boycotting
• smuggling
• importing

These were groups that helped spread information among the colonies:

• Continental Congress
• committees of correspondence
• Stamp Act Congress
• Sons of Liberty

A colonial group that encouraged colonists to burn stamps and attack tax collectors was called the:

• Sons of Liberty
• Stamp Act Congress
• Continental Congress
• militia

This law forbid the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains:

• Treaty of Paris
• Stamp Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Townshend Acts

repeal means to: (Ex. The Stamp Act was repealed.)

• enforce
• do away with
• strengthen
• sign into law