Colonial Taxes & Acts / Vocabulary

This act was a tax on everyday household items such as glass, paper, paint, & tea.

• Declaratory Act
• Stamp Act
• Townshend Act

a widespread refusal to buy goods as a form of protest is called a(n):

• smuggling
• strike
• boycott

British law that required colonists to house and supply British soldiers was called the:

• Townshend Act
• Quartering Act
• Declaratory Act

to sneak goods into a country is called:

• boycotting
• smuggling
• importing

This law forbid the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains:

• Treaty of Paris
• Stamp Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Townshend Acts

England's law-making group is called:

• Congress
• House of Representatives
• Senate
• Parliament

When Parliament repealed the Townshend Act, they got rid of taxes on all other goods except for:

• sugar
• stamps
• molasses
• tea

What did the Proclamation of 1763 stop colonists from doing?

• Moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Trading with India

• Quartering British soldiers

• Drinking tea

Which law taxed goods like legal documents, wills, newspapers, playing cards, etc.?

• Navigation Acts

• Pamphlet Act

• Stamp Act

• War Debt Act

What does smuggle mean?

• To refuse to buy something

• To send a document making a demand

• To make a top secret group

• To sneak goods in or out