6.1 Stamp Act

The Proclamation of 1763 restricted –

• colonists from moving back to Great Britain

• the western movement of settlers

• the control of colonial legislatures

• the amount of tea imported from Europe

Why did Great Britain impose taxes such as the Stamp Act?

• To stop colonial representation in Parliament

• To raise money to pay for the French and Indian War

• To stop British citizens from moving to colonial America

• To raise money to buy more land from the American Indians

Colonists opposed taxes from Great Britain because the—

• colonies had no representation in Parliament

• taxes were not high enough

• British people had no representation in Parliament

• colonists wanted American Indians and the French to pay all the taxes

Who was the British king during the Revolutionary War?

• Henry VIII

• James I

• Charles IV

• George III

Maintaining British troops in the colonies was a reason for—

• taxing the American colonists

• forbidding colonists to move west

• the French and Indian War

• colonial militias to form

The British tax on newspapers, books, and playing cards was called the—

• Stamp Act

• Paper Act

• Townsend Act

• Tea Act

Great Britain’s desire to remain a world power resulted in a conflict

with France known as the—

• British and French War

• French and American War

• French and Indian War

• European War