Taxation

Parliament passed the Stamp Act because they believed that the colonies should help support troops.

• False
• true

Stamps were placed on

• Newspapers, pamphlets and playing cards
• newspapers and shirts 
• barrels, playing cards and documents

Placing a stamp on an item showed that the tax had not been paid for the item

• false
• true

How much of a tax was placed on sugar?

• 5 cents 
• 3 cents 
• 1 pound
• 1 cent

What was the name of the group the protested the Stamp Act?

• The daughters of liberty
• the continental congress
• the house of lords
• the sons of liberty

Colonists believed that they should not be taxed if they did not agree to the taxes.

• True
• False

British merchants began to lose business because of the new taxes. They asked parliament to repeal the stamp act. What is a synonym for repeal?

• Burn
• cancel
• fly
• pizza

What did the Townshend acts do?

• Put a tax on sugar
• Put a tax on tea
• Put a tax on paper goods
• put a tax on any goods imported to the colonies.

Parliament created the Tea Act to help which company?

• The British Tea company
• The West India Company
• The East India Company
• The British Tea Company

Colonists disguised themselves as what the night of the Boston Tea Party?

• Pilgrims
• Squanto
• Mohawk Indians
• Commoners