1.3 British Acts

This act allowed King George to make all decisions for the colonists and create any taxes that he wanted.

• The Declaratory Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Sugar Act

• The Stamp Act

This act allowed British soldiers to live in colonial homes.

• The Quebec Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Declaratory Act

• The Quartering Act

This law placed a tax on all printed material in the colonies including wills, contracts, newspapers, and playing cards.

• The Declaratory Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

This act gave an unfair advantage to a the British East India Company by allowing the British company to not pay tax on tea.

• The Tea Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Coercive Act

• The Declaratory Act

These acts placed a tax only on imported goods like paper, glass, tea, and lead.

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

• The Townshend Acts

• Writs of Assistance

These very harsh acts were designed after the Boston Tea Party and included closing Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the ruined tea.

• The Townshend Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Sugar Act

• The Coercive Acts

What was the COLONIAL name for the acts that closed Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, and other harsh penalties?

• The Coercive Acts

• The Townshend Acts

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Proclamation of 1763

Which event completes the diagram?

• Colonial agricultural trade increases

• Colonial religious devotion increases

• Colonial demand for political change increases

• Colonial demand for military assistance increases

One purpose of the First Continental Congress was:

• to ask King George to respect the colonists’ rights as British citizens and establish peace.

• to declare the colonies’ independence from Britain.

• to declare war on Britain.

• to pass laws concerning the colonies.

The Proclamation of 1763 angered many colonists because:

• did not allow settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• drafted colonists into military service.

• required colonists to join Hudson’s Bay Company.

• taxed colonists on their purchases of imported goods.