Lesson Quiz 3-2: The Spirit of Independence

Great Britain developed a huge debt from fighting which conflict before taxing the colonies?

• the War of Spanish Succession

• the French and Indian War

• King George’s colonial campaigns

• the Seven Years’ European War

Under the Sugar Act, officers could seize goods from accused smugglers without what legal step?

• a royal judge’s approval

• a governor’s signed order

• a warrant from Parliament

• a jury trial in colonial courts

Colonists angered by which act argued they should be taxed only by their own assemblies?

• the Stamp Act

• the Quartering Act

• the Navigation Acts

• the Tea Act

The Sons of Liberty organized protests and burned what belonging to tax officials?

• effigies of tax collectors

• cargo on taxed ships

• letters of correspondence

• royal proclamations

One way many colonial women protested the Townshend Acts was by doing what?

• writing loyal addresses

• holding tea-serving rallies

• boycotting British goods

• petitioning royal governors

What did writs of assistance allow British customs officers to search?

• ships with colonial cargo

• people for contraband

• foreign goods at docks

• homes for smuggled goods

Which measure allowed colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• writs of assistance

• Proclamation of 1763

Which act led the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a formal resolution opposing taxation?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

Which act placed taxes on imported goods before they were bought or sold in the colonies?

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Declaratory Act

• Sugar Act

Which act asserted that Parliament had the right to tax colonists?

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act