The Townshend Acts

1. The Stamp Act was repealed due to stiff colonial resistance and the pressures of organized ___________________________ .

• SMUGGLING

• BOYCOTTS

2. King ________________________________ wanted the colonists to pay for damages caused by rioting and the price of printing millions of now worthless stamps.

• GEORGE III

• HENRY

3. In 1767, Parliament passed an ambitious series of laws that became known as the _______________________________ .

• TOWNSHEND ACTS

• SUGAR ACT

4. The revenue from the Townshend Acts would go to pay the salaries of ________________________ that the colonists were already providing housing and supplies for.

• TROOPS AND OFFICERS

• STAMP COMMISSIONERS

5. __________________________ gave British authorities the right to search any building or vessel for any reason.

• DIRECT TAXATION

• WRITS OF ASSISTANCE

6. ______________________ organized protests, secret societies, and Committees of Correspondence.

• SONS OF LIBERTY

• DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY

7. ________________________ held spinning bees to create American-made clothes.

• DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY

• SONS OF LIBERTY

8. In response to the Liberty incident, the governor broke up the _______________________________ legislature and requested troops to restore order.

• NEW YORK

• MASSACHUSETTS

9. Due to colonial resistance, most of the __________________________ were repealed.

• STAMP ACTS

• TOWNSHEND ACTS

10. The first ___________________________ arrived in Boston in October 1768.

• BRITISH SOLDIERS

• FRENCH SOLDIERS