Revolutionary Taxes

Question 1

Places a tax on beaver hats made in colonies and sold in Europe

Answer 1

Hat Act

Question 2

Places a tax on sugar imported from the French West Indies; force colonist to buy from the expensive sugar from British companies

Answer 2

Molasses Act

Question 3

Places a high tax on iron, a product made from the colonies and allowe for iron products produced in England to enter duty free

Answer 3

Iron Act

Question 4

Barred settlements west of the mountains. This action was supposed to stop any further problems with the Indians

Answer 4

Proclamation of 1763

Question 5

Placed a high tax on all foregin sugar and molasses

Answer 5

Sugar act

Question 6

Stated that colonial paper money could no longer be used as legal tender and there was a timeable for the money to be removed

Answer 6

Currancy Act of 1764

Question 7

Placed a tax on all printed material

Answer 7

Stamp act

Question 8

Passed giving the king full power and authority to make laws which the colonist must abide by

Answer 8

Declaratory act

Question 9

Placed a tax on common items like tea, lead, glass, and dye

Answer 9

Townshend act

Question 10

States if the colonies could not pay for the troops that they could placed in the houses of colonist as payment

Answer 10

Quartering act

Question 11

A felony for groups to meet

Answer 11

Riot act

Question 12

Excuses the British East India Co. from paying any tax

Answer 12

Tea act

Question 13

• closed the port of Boston
• revoked the colony of Massachuetts charter
• allowed royal officers and soldiers to be tried in England
• new quartering act which said colonies must provide food and housing for soldiers

Answer 13

Intolerable or Coercive act

Question 14

Extends the border of Quebec south to the Ohio River Valley; the act will grant religious freedom to French Roman Catholics

Answer 14

Quebec act