Chapter 2, Lesson 1

Which of the following caused tensions between the colonies and Great Britain after the French and Indian War?

• Britain ordered the colonies to make the Albany Plan.

• Britain would not allow colonists to have British citizenship.

• Britain taxed them without colonial representation in Parliament.

• Britain told the colonies that it could no longer offer protection for them.

In 1765, Britain believed it had the right to pass the ________ because it needed money to pay for war debts.

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

Why did many colonists boycott British goods?

• They did not like British goods and preferred to buy goods made in the colonies.

• They were protesting to show Britain that colonists were angry about the taxes.

• They were protesting the poor quality of British goods that they had been forced to buy.

• They did not have enough money to buy British goods because they were more expensive.

Which of the following was an organized group in the colonies that encouraged boycotts and protected colonists’ rights?

• Sons of Liberty

• Albany Congress

• Stamp Act Congress

• Parliament

Which of the following were effects of colonists’ protests?

• repeal of the taxes on tea and paper

• passage of the Stamp Act and Declaratory Act

• colonial representation in the colonies and Parliament

• passage of the Townshend Acts and repeal of the Stamp Act

a lawmaking body

• congress

• Sons of Liberty

• boycott

• tariff

money owed

• debt

• taxes

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

a tax on every printed paper that colonists used

• Townshend Act

• Paper tax

• Stamp Act

• newspaper

acknowledge

• to know

• to recognize

• to see

• to guess

A group that began to protest the Stamp Act

• Rebels

• Loyalists

• Sons of King George

• Sons of Liberty