Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution: Crash Course US History #6

The American Revolution and the American War of Independence are the same thing?

• True

• False

The American Revolution was caused by taxation of the colonists

• True

• False

Conflict which left the British crown severally in debt and lead to a great involvement of the British crown in the lives and liberties of the American Colonists

• Seven Years War

• The 100 Years War

• The War of Spanish Succession

• The Napoleonic Wars

The taxes and trade restrictions placed upon the American Colonist by the British government following the French and Indian War were a new thing to the colonists?

• Yes, the American Colonists had never been taxed or had trade restrictions placed on them.

• No, the American Colonists had taxes and trade restrictions placed on them but they were loosely enforced.

What angered colonist most about the British governments actions following the French & Indian (Seven Years) War?

• The colonists lack of representation in the British government.

• Taxes

• The Royal Proclamation Line of 1763

• The increased presence of the British military in North America.

What was the Sugar Act of 1764 (an extension of the Moseses Act) problematic?

• Collection of the tax & smuggling to avoid paying the tax were now strictly punished.

• The tax was doubled.

• The tax was cut in half.

• All of the above.

How did the enforcement of the Sugar Act break English legal tradition?

• Smugglers were tried in British Admiralty Courts instead local (leant) jury courts.

• Smugglers were tired in local jury courts instead of British Admiralty Courts.

This HIGHLY unpopular tax affected businessmen and lawyers most as it taxed all official documents.

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Sugar Act

• The Intolerable Acts

The Stamp Act was repealed after

• the colonists convened and carried out a coordinated boycott.

• the colonist tar and feathered all tax collectors in New England.

• the colonist began creating their own finished goods.

• all of the above.

The Townshend Act taxed what goods?

• Paper

• Paint

• Lead

• Tea