Spirit of Independence

Question 1

Revenue

Answer 1

Money raised from taxes or other sources

Question 2

Writ of Assistance

Answer 2

Legal paper that allows officers to enter a place to search for smuggled goods. The Brits hoped it would stop smuggling.

Question 3

Resolution

Answer 3

A group’s official expression of opinion

Question 4

Effigy

Answer 4

A doll-like figure that is meant to stand for an unpopular individual

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

Protest by refusing to buy items

Question 6

Repeal

Answer 6

Cancel

Question 7

State 3 reasons that Britain issued the Proclamation of 1763

Answer 7

1. Keep peace with Native Americans: Colonist could not live west of the Appalachian Mountains.
2. Force colonist must live close to the coast
3. The British could better control fur trade and stop smuggling
   make sure people obeyed the king and paid taxes

Question 8

Why did colonists believe the Sugar Act and other laws violated their rights as British citizens.

Answer 8

Laws allowed officers to search without a jury and the colonists weren’t allowed to be considered innocent until proven guilty or have a trial by jury

Question 9

What group did Samuel Adams help to start, and how did the group protest the Stamp Act?

Answer 9

He helped start the Sons of Liberty. To protest the Stamp Act, they burned effigies of tax collectors.

Question 10

James Otis

Answer 10

a Boston lawyer who was first said that English colonists can’t be taxed without consent.

Question 11

The Sugar Act

Answer 11

The Sugar Act of 1764 lowered the tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies. Brits hoped colonist would pay the tax instead of use smuggled goods to make rum. This Act also allowed officers to take smuggled goods wo permission this sparked more discontent over British taxation and lack of rights.

Question 12

How was the Proclamation of 1763 was good for British and Native American relations.

Answer 12

The Proclamation barred colonists from moving west causing the British to maintain there rule and gave Native Americans there land.

Question 13

George Grenville

Answer 13

The Prime Minister of Britain in 1763 , known for policies like Writs of Assistance and the Stamp Act both fueled tensions leading to the American Revolution.

Question 14

What was Patrick Henry’s reaction to the Stamp Act?

Answer 14

He did not like the law and convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution that only the Virginia assembly had the power to tax Virginia Citizens

Question 15

Why did Britain place new taxes on the colonists?

Answer 15

The British government needed revenue to give 10,000 soldiers food and supplies. They also needed to pay back the money that borrowed for the French and Indian War

Question 16

Stamp Act

Answer 16

In 1765 Parliament passed a tax that required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. The tax also included fees for playing cards, dice, and newspapers.

Question 17

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 17

In Oct 1765 delegates from 9 colonies met in NY and wrote a resolution to boycott British goods. This resulted in the Stamp Act being repealed by the Parlaement.

Question 18

Declaration Act

Answer 18

A law that allowed Parliament to tax the colonists.

Question 19

name 3 ways that colonists protested the tax laws

Answer 19

Boycotting goods, sons of liberty, women made cloth at home instead of buying British cloth