10/25 DOL

Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?

• The colonists were wealthier than most British citizens.
• Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.
• The British wanted to punish the colonists for rebelling against the Proclamation.
• Britain needed money to protect the colonists from the French.

A secret organization formed to protest the Stamp Act was called

• Congress
• Sons of Liberty
• Parliament
• Loyalists

Reorder the following

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

When the Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, this was called the

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

• Treaty of Paris

Colonists protested the Stamp Act because they believed in what phrase?

• Live free or die

• All men are created equal

• Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

• No taxation without representation