U1 L1-3 Events Leading to American Revolution

What are is one likely reasons Great Britian taxed the American colonies?

• to control trade between the colonies and Europe

• to pay for troops to protect the colonies

• to stop trade of smuggled goods.

What are is another likely reasons Great Britian taxed the American colonies?

• to stop trade of smuggled goods

• to repay debts from the French and Indian War

• to pay government officials for their loyality

Which good were taxed with the Stamp Act

• sugar

• paper

• manufactured goods

• tea

Why did the Boston colonists feel justified (think it was ok) to destroy the tea?

• They were able to buy better tea from the Spanish.

• The wanted to protest the Tea Act.

• They felt they had not been represented in decisions about taxes made in Parliament (British government)

What is another reasons the Boston colonists felt justified in destroying the tea?

• They disliked the soldiers who were stationed in their towns.

• They wanted to control trade of goods in the Boston harbor

• They were able to buy better tea from the Dutch.

What did "no taxation with representation" mean?

• The colonisits did not want to be taxed because they did were not represented in English Parliament.

• The colonists wanted to be taxed to make money.

• They colonists wanted to tax all goods from England.

Which group would have said "no taxation without representation"?

• King George

• British soldiers

• Sons of Liberty

What does it mean to boycott goods that were taxed?

• to declare war as a form of protest

• to agree to buy good as a form of protest

• to refuse to by goods as a form of protest

What law foreced colonists to provide food and housing for British soldiers?

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

What caused the Boston Massare of 1770?

• Colonists were tired of taxes on every day goods.

• Colonists were fed up with Native American people.

• There was an increase in colonists who supported tax laws.