WorksheetsConflict in the Colonies
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 35mins
What is the definition for Committees of Correspondence?
Taxes placed on sugar and molasses to pay for the friench and indian war
A secret society of men who used violenc to scare tax colecters
Something formed to share ideas and information about the new britosh laws and ways to challenge them
What is the defanition for Stamp Act of 1765?
Required the colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal when they bought paper items
Taxes placed on sugar and molasses to pay for the friench and indian war and the army they had stationary in the colonies for protection
An incident in which British soldiers fired into the crowd of colonists and 5 people were killed
What was the Boston Massacre?
A story giving only one side in an argument
An incident in which British soldiers fired into the crowd of colonists and 5 people were killed
Required the colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal when they bought paper items
What was the Tea Act?
Laws passed to punish the colonist and to tighten government control
An act that Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonists
One of the Intolerable that required colonists to house British soldiers
What was the the Boston Tea Party?
A protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists snuck on the British ships and dumped 340 tea chests into the Boston harbor
Laws passed to punish the colonist and to tighten government control
In October 1765 the Stamp Act Congress issued a declaration that the Stamp Act was a violation of the colonists’ rights and liberties.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This act placed duties (taxes) on glass,lead, paints, paper, and tea
Laws passed to punish the colonist and to tighten government control
Gave a large piece of land to the colony of Quebec
What were the Quartering Acts?
One of the Intolerable that required colonists to house British soldiers
An act where the Massachusetts charter was canceled and the governor could decide when legislature could m
An act that Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonists
Who is Samuel Adams is and why he is important?
Secret society that was organized with the help of Samusal Adams
Argued that the power of the Crown and Parliament was limited in the colonies
A local leader who believed that parliament could not tax the colonists without their consent
What is the Sugar Act was passed and what items were taxed under it?
Taxes placed on sugar and molasses to pay for the friench and indian war and the army they had stationary in the colonies for protection
Committees that were formed to share ideas and information about the new britosh laws and ways to challenge them
A local leader who believed that parliament could not tax the colonists without their consent
Why did the colonists think it was unfair for Parliament to tax them?
People thought Great Britain had no right to tax the colonies at all without popular consent
They thought the british economy was hurting their buisness
Businesses openly ignored the law by refusing to buy stamps
What items taxed under the Stamp Act?
Lead, paper, glass
Sugar and mollases
Legal documents, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets and even playing cards all required a tax or stamp
How was the Stamp Act was different from the Sugar Act?
The stamp act taxed only paper things and the sugar act taxed sugar
The stamp act gave the colonist a trial by jury and the sugar act did not
The colonist like one but not the other
What did Parliament do in response to their challenges towards the Stamp Act?
They did nothing
They passed the Townshed acts
They whent to war tith the colonist
What was the reasons why Patrick Henry thought the Stamp Act violated the colonists’ rights?
Because the colonist had no one to speak for them in England
Because that was what he grew up hearing
Because he thought thet Englend was too bosy
Besides taxing colonist, what other rights did the Townshend Acts give to the tax collectors?
The tax collecter could take personal things like earings and books
The tax colloecters could search your boat for smuggled goods
They could take your house
What 2 things did the Governor of Massachusetts do in response to the Sons of Liberty attacking the houses of some custom workers?
He broke up the Massachusetts legislature
He put the colonist in jail
Asked for troops to restore order
Quit his job because of stress
What really happened in the Boston massacre?
The british started war with the colonist
When British soldiers fired into the crowd of colonists
When a colonist and a soldier got in to a fight and colonist started throughing snow balls
