Causes of the American Revolution

What effect did salutary neglect have on the colonists?

• they could do what they wanted with trade and government

• they were able to smuggle sugar in from the Caribbean to sell to England

• they could help the pirates get goods to sell

• they took over all English boats

Which British acts stated that colonists could only trade items on British ships with a British crew, and only go to Britain?

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Traveling Act

• Navigation Acts

What does the phrase "no taxation without representation" mean?

• colonists were excited to collect taxes representing the British government and honored the collectors.

• colonists worked with the king to terrorize the tax collectors and put soldiers in their homes.

• colonists were angry with the British for making them pay taxes without representation in Parliament.

• colonists were tired of tax collectors showing up at their homes wanting taxes, food, and shelter.

If merchants were found guilty of smuggling molasses, wine, indigo, coffee, and silk, they went before a judge. This is an effect of which British act?

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

The colonists were forbidden from printing their own money, and farmers have to buy supplies on credit. Which British act is described?

• Currency Act

• Stamp Act

• Navigation Acts

• Daughters of Liberty

This British act was the first to affect ALL colonists, and was a direct tax on the colonies. Which act is described?

• Stamp Act Congress

• indirect tax

• Navigation Acts

• Stamp Act

This type of resistance group opposed British taxes and laws. They threatened the British tax collectors to make them leave.

• Stamp Act Congress

• Sons of Liberty

• Parliament

• Daughters of Liberty

What types of threats and violence were used against tax collectors?

• burning effigies

• tarring and feathering

• None of these

• Both of these

How did the Daughters of Liberty support the colonial boycott of tea?

• They tarred and feathered tax collectors.

• They punished the natives for working for the British.

• They had spinning bees and tea parties.

• They burned effigies of tax collectors in their yards.

How did Charlestown respond to the Stamp Act?

• They burned an effigy of King George III in the town commons so everyone could see.

• They tarred and feathered Governor Bull, who hid the stamps in Charlestown.

• They bombed the port of Charlestown with a cannon on the ship Dartmouth.

• They paraded through the streets and ransacked the homes of tax collectors.