Chp. 5 L1 - No Taxation Without Representation

What is a boycott?

• A type of army bed

• A tax placed on families

• A refusal to buy a certain good/product

• Support for a certain revolution

Answer explanation

The definition of a boycott is a decision to not use or buy products or services in order to show support for a cause. An example of a boycott is not buying paper products made with rainforest wood to protest deforestation.

This act put a tax on almost every type of printed document.

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Madison Act

Answer explanation

Instead of placing a tax on trade goods, the Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. Specifically, the act required that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp.

At the Stamp Act Congress, representatives could not agree on whether to send a proclamation to the king that only the elected colonial representatives could tax the colonists.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The delegates of the Stamp Act Congress drew up a "Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonists." In this document they declared that: As subjects of the British king, had the same rights as British subjects living in Britain. Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies.

Representatives from 9 colonies met in New York at what was called

• 1st Continental Congress

• Articles of Confederation

• The Boycott Congress

• The Stamp Act Congress

Answer explanation

The Stamp Act Congress met in the Federal Hall building in New York City between October 7 and 25, 1765. It was the first colonial action against a British measure and was formed to protest the Stamp Act issued by British Parliament on March 1765. The Stamp Act Congress was attended by 27 representatives of nine of the thirteen colonies. Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia were prevented from attending because their loyal governors refused to convene the assemblies to elect delegates. New Hampshire did not attend but approved the resolutions once Congress was over.

American colonists were prohibited from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains by the _________________.

• The Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• The Townshend Acts

Answer explanation

After the conclusion of the French and Indian War in America, the British Empire began to tighten control over its rather autonomous colonies. In response to Pontiac’s Rebellion, a revolt of Native Americans led by Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off-limits to colonial settlers.

This royal proclamation, issued on October 7, 1763, closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia. It was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies.

After the French and Indian War, the colonies offered to pay some of Britain's war debts, to thank them for helping the colonists.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The British thought the colonists should help pay for the cost of their own protection. The colonists thought otherwise. But the French and Indian War had cost the British treasury £70,000,000 and doubled their national debt to £140,000,000. Compared to this staggering sum, the colonists' debts were extremely light, as was their tax burden.

Some colonists smuggled goods to avoid paying taxes.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Colonial smuggling was a vital segment of colonial trade, smuggling developed in response to the strict policies of England in the seventeenth century.

The Sugar Act raised the tax on all products that contained sugar.

• True

• False

English Parliament authorized writs of assistance that

• let poorer colonists buy goods tax-free

• allowed officials to search for smuggled goods almost anywhere

• moved colonists' trials to Britain

• took away colonists' right to vote

Answer explanation

Writs of assistance were court orders that authorized customs officers to conduct general (non-specific) searches of premises for contraband. The exact nature of the materials being sought did not have to be detailed, nor did their locations.

The Sugar Act angered the colonists because _______________.

• they believed that sugar should not be taxed

• it raised the tax on sugar

• they believed it violated their rights as English citizens

• it allowed the British to import their own molasses

Answer explanation

The Sugar Act was British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War.