The Acts

What is a refusal to buy goods called?

• congress
• repeal
• boycott
• bankrupt

The Townshend Acts put taxes on  _________.

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

What did the Stamp Act Tax

• Tea and Sugar

• mail sent between england and the american Colonies

• it was an income tax on colonial lawyers

• printed materials like newspapers and legal Documents

Why did the british government decide to tax colonies?

• to pay for the French and Indian War

• To pay for a new palace for king George

• To pay for a war against Spain

• to pay for improvements in the city of london

• to pay for new ships being built for the Royal Navy

What year did the British begin to impose the stamp Act?

• 1760

• 1762

• 1765

• 1775

• 1776

What Year did the Sugar Act start?

• 1760

• 1765

• 1764

• 1770

How did merchants avoid paying the sugar tax?

• not using them

• smuggling goods into the country

• made their own sugar

• just paid the taxes anyway

What did the Declaratory Act say?

• Children would have to serve in the military at age 18

• Britain has the authority to pass any laws they see fit on the colonies

• Britain's laws and Colonial Laws must be in agreement in order for them to go into effect

• Soldiers would be permitted to live in your house if the need arises

Why did colonists not like the Declaratory Act?

• They thought that the colonies should be making their laws not the King

• They thought that laws should come from both the king and the colony

• They wanted the King to make all of the laws for them

• They hinted in the act that the Stamp Act would eventually come back

Why did Britain enact the Declaratory Act?

• So that the king could get more revenue in taxes

• So that they could import more goods into the Colonies and make more money for British trade companies

• So that they could but an end to the smuggling in the Southern Colonies

• So that the British could reaffirm their control over the colonies since protests kept breaking out