Video Quiz: The Stamp Act | Benjamin Franklin | PBS

After the Seven Years War [aka the French and Indian War], Great Britain acquired huge amount of territory and was required to do what?

• They needed to raise taxes because the land was expensive to maintain

• Sell the territories to Spain and France

• Declare war on the Native Americans who occupied the newly acquired territories

• Abandon the territories and leave them unmanaged

The French and Indian war expanded England's empire but left its treasury/money supply _________.

• enriched
• depleted
• unaffected

• slightly reduced

True or False: The American people were happy to pay the taxes that Great Britain raised to pay off their debts from the French and Indian War

• True

• False

What was the Stamp Act of 1765?

• A proclamation that forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

• A tax imposed on all printed materials in the American colonies

• A regulation that required colonial traders to purchase stamps to trade with foreign countries

• A law that required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers

In response to the Stamp Act of 1765, in Virginia, Patrick Henry denounced the Act as taxation without ___________

• justification

• representation

• legislation

• regulation

In protest of the Stamp Act, a Boston group called the ________ destroyed the mansion of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson and made a life-sized dummy of the British stamp commissioner and hanged and burned it

• The Minutemen

• Sons of Anarchy

• Sons of Liberty

• the Committees of Correspondence

What phrase did the "Sons of Liberty" steal from Benjamin Franklin to encourage the colonies to act together?

• United we stand, divided we fall

• Give me liberty or give me death

• No taxation without representation

• Join or die

Benjamin Franklin believed that unless some compromise could be found over the increased taxes from the Stamp Act that "events were laying the foundation of a future total _______"

• separation

• acquiescence

• compliance
• disenfranchisement

True or False: In 1766, Benjamin Franklin told the British Parliament that he believed the British Army would be needed to make the colonists obey the Stamp Act

• True

• False

What did Benjamin Franklin think would happen if the British sent military forces to America to enforce the Stamp Act?

• That the British response might cause a rebellion

• The colonies would immediately comply with the Stamp Act to avoid conflict

• The colonies would negotiate a compromise with the British Parliament

• The colonies would allow other European powers to seize control