The Stamp Act Of 1765

Many colonists especially disliked the Stamp Act. They thought it was _______________.

• reasonable

• fair

• unjust

• confusing

In 1765, the meeting of nine colonies in New York City was called the _______________. 

• Sugar Act Parliament

• Colonial Legislature

• Stamp Act Congress

• Townshend Act Protest

Merchants and other colonists agreed not to buy British goods. This is an example of a _______________.

• repeal

• boycott

• congress

• petition

Colonists hoped their boycott would force Great Britain to _______________. 

• send more soldiers to protect them

• buy more goods from the colonies

• repeal, or remove, the Stamp Act

• end the French and Indian W

What did the slogan "No Taxation without Representation" mean to the colonists?

• Colonists thought that British government should put higher taxes on imported and exported goods.

• Colonists refused to send a representative to British Parliament unless King George III gave them their independence.

• Colonists had no representatives in British Parliament, so they refused to obey tax laws that they didn't help create.

a formal written request

• petition

• boycott

• congress

• repeal

• unjust

not fair or right

• petition

• boycott

• congress

• repeal

• unjust

a formal meeting of representatives

• petition

• boycott

• congress

• repeal

• unjust

to protest by refusing to buy, sell, or use certain goods

• petition

• boycott

• congress

• repeal

• unjust

to reverse or remove

• petition

• boycott

• congress

• repeal

• unjust