British Taxes on the Colonies

Why was "No taxation without representation!" an important slogan for colonial protesters?

• Colonists believed that Britain should only tax tea.
• King George III had written it for them.
• They did not want to support a government in which they were not represented.

Why did the colonist think Parliament had no right to tax them?

• The colonists were returning to Britain.
• The colonist had won the French and Indian War.
• The colonist had not voted for members of Parliament.

This law forbid colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation of 1763
• Boston Massacre
• Quartering Act

Why did Parliament choose to raise taxes on the American colonies beginning in 1763?

• To buy a surplus of rice and indigo
• To help pay the French and Indian War Debt
• To increase subsidies to Indigo plantation owners

This was a tax on all British imports -- paper, lead, paint, tea, glass, etc...

• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act

This act taxed goods like coffee and sugar.

• Sugar Act
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act

Which British tax required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials?

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Tea Act

A law that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops.

• Quartering Act
• Tea Act
• Sugar Act

What did the Tea Act create?

• A monopoly on tea sales to the colonists through the British East India Company.
• Tax on imported tea that the colonists paid weekly.
• An alliance of the colonists with Asian tea markets.

To refuse to buy products, goods or use the services of a merchant or country. Many colonists did this to protest the taxes.

• Smuggle
• Boycott
• Picket