British Taxes Vocabulary

tax on all printed documents such as wills, contracts, newspapers, and playing cards.

• stamp act

• sugar act

• Townshend act

• quartering act

This law taxed goods that were made in Great Britain but were brought into the colonies such as glass, tea, and lead.

• tea act

• stamp act

• Townshend act

• sugar act

To refuse to buy items from a particular country.

• boycott

• buycott

• smuggle

• protest

a law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers

• quartering act

• threes a crowd act

• stamp act

• housing act

a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

• Intolerable acts

• punishable acts

• declaratory act

What were the last set of taxes passed right before the American colonists declared their independence?

• punishable acts

• stamp act

• declaratory act

• intolerable acts

Why did the British impose taxes on the American colonists?

• because they were enemies

• wanted to show dominance

• pay off debt from French and Indian war

The American colonists were being taxed without what?

• representation

• parliament

• rights

• natural laws

What does no taxation without representation mean?

• colonists were required by law to pay taxes, and had say in the tax making decisions

• colonists were not required to pay taxes, but had no say in the law tax making process

• colonists were required by law to pay taxes, but had no say whatsoever