Week 9 Road to Revolution

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• Tea and Sugar

• It was a tax on colonial lawyers

• Mail sent between England and the American colonies

• Printed materials like newspapers and documents.

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• Tea and Sugar

• Mail sent between England and the American colonies

• It was an income tax on colonial lawyers

• Printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.

Those who did not pick a side because they had ties to both those who supported Britain and those who did not. Sometimes they would not choose a side because it was against their religion

• Neutralist

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Neitherist

Those who remained supportive of the King.

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Pathetic

• Neutralist

_______________ is the legislature, or law-making group in Britain (England)

• Lord of the Rings

• Parliament

• Legislative Branch

Colonists did not want to pay taxes on items sold by the British, so they decided to ______, or refuse to buy, the items as a way of protest.

• avoid

• purchase

• boycott

What were minutemen?

• a member of a group of Patriot men pledged to take up arms at a minute's notice

• a member of a group of minions who promised to take up arms in an hour's notice

• a member of a group of a monkeys who promised to take up arms at a second's notice.

What does TAXATION mean?

• money paid as tax

• money paid as pennies

• the act of paying for a taxicab

How did colonists protest the Stamp Act?

• They refused to pay the taxes.

• They would smuggle in goods without paying

• none of the answers

• both A and C

getting or sending goods illegally into or out of the country is called

• trading

• buying and selling

• smuggling

• none of the above