myWorld 5th Grade Chapter 5 Lesson 1

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• legal documents
• inns
• farm animals
• imports

Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?

• The colonists were wealthier than most British citizens.
• Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.
• The British wanted to punish the colonists for rebelling against the Proclamation.
• Britain needed money to protect the colonists from the French.

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

Which group was one of the two groups responsible for organizing boycotts and protests against the British rule in the colonies?

• Sons of Liberty
• Cousins of Liberty
• Committees of Correspondence
• Continental Congress

Which Act required official postage on all paper publications?

• Townshend
• Tea
• Stamp
• Intolerable/Coercive

Goods being imported to the colonies were taxed by which act? 

• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act

One of the ways women protested the Townshend Acts was by _____________ British Goods.

• Prohibiting
• Boycotting
• Violating
• Repealing

This act put a tax on paper goods, such as newspapers, wills, and playing cards.

• Tea Act
• Stamp Act
• Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
• Quartering Act

The law that all printed documents needed a stamp

• Stamp Act
• boycott
• repeal
• delegates

To refuse to buy goods or services from a person, group, or country

• Stamp Act
• boycott
• repeal
• delegates