HistoryC5EssentialQsDunbar

Question 1

Stamp Tax

Answer 1

Forced colonists to pay a direct tax on a number of items, including almanacs, newspapers, and playing cards

Question 2

No taxation without representation

Answer 2

Colonists didn’t elect members of Parliament (British government), so they weren’t represented and couldn’t be taxed by Parliament

Question 3

Townshend Acts

Answer 3

Taxed colonial imports, including lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea

Question 4

Boston Tea Party

Answer 4

Protest against the tea tax in which a group of colonists boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the sea

Question 5

Quartering Act

Answer 5

Law that required colonists to house and supply British troops, and seen by colonists as a tax collected in goods instead of money

Question 6

Boston Massacre

Answer 6

Incident in which a group of colonists gathered outside the customs house and began provoking the soldiers, who then fired into the crowd and killed several colonists; used by colonists as propaganda

Question 7

Coercive Acts

Answer 7

4 laws passed by Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies; known by colonists as the Intolerable Acts

Question 8

British Policy: Stamp Tax

Answer 8

Colonial Reaction: No taxation without representation

Question 9

British Policy: Townshend Acts

Answer 9

Colonial Reaction: Boston Tea Party

Question 10

British Policy: Quartering Act

Answer 10

Colonial Reaction: Boston Massacre

Question 11

British Policy: Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts

Answer 11

Colonial Reaction: Colonial unity against the British crown and the development of a new identity