Reasons for the Revolution

What was the tax on most printed materials?
 
Colonists protested through boycotts, burning effigies, burning down homes.

• Paper Act
• Stamp Act
• Sons of Liberty
• Navigation Acts

Why did the Boston Tea Party occur?

• To protest the monopoly of East Indian Tea Company
• They wanted peace with tax collectors
• smugglers wanted to protest the writs of assistance
• To get revenge against the Proclamation of 1763

A series of acts passed by Britain as punishment in response to the Boston tea party rebellion.

• Stamp Act
• Coercive/Intolerable Acts
• Townshend Act
• Sugar Act

Did not see unfair taxes as good reason to rebel

• Loyalists
• Patriots

Why did the people of Boston rename the Coercive Acts the Intolerable Acts? 

• It closed Boston Harbor
• It banned town hall meetings
• Forced Bostonian's to give soldiers shelter
• All of the above

The French and Indian was was fought between the

• French against the Indians

• Indians against the Spanish

• French and British against the Indians

• The French and Indians against the British and the colonists.

The economic cost of the war led to which two events that created tension between the British and the colonists?

• The Quartering Act and the second was the  Letter Tax.
•  The Proclamation of 1763, and the second was a series of taxes, including the Stamp Act (1765).
• Declaration of Independence and the second was the  blocking of the Boston Harbor
• The French and Indian War and the Battle of the Bloody Marsh.

 Georgia’s loyalty was divided amongst its colonists. Some were loyal to the King and others were outraged over the Intolerable Acts. These two different groups were called

• British and Americans 
• Colonists and Tories
• Effigies and Patriots
•  Loyalists and Patriots

This act was passed in 1765...it required colonist to allow any British soldier to stay in their house and supply them with food

• Housing Act

• Townshend Act

• Quatering Act

• Coercive Act

This act was passed in 1765....it was a tax on all paper documents in the colonies such as newspapers, documents, and ship papers

• Stamp Act
• King's Seal Act
• Paper Act
• Currency Act