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6.1 No Taxation Without Representation
1. Define the following term:
Writ of assistance
Effigy
Boycott
Repeal
Dealing with Great Britain
2. Read about British policies and colonial responses to those policies and fill in the chart below.
Cause: Britain needed revenue to pay
Effect:
for troops sent to enforce the
Proclamation and to pay off their debt.
Cause:
Effect: They would be tried by royally
appointed judges and customs officers
could obtain writs of assistance.
Cause: To keep colonists from
Effect:
smuggling, Parliament passed the Sugar
Act, which lowered the tax on molasses.
3. Explain the principle of “no taxation without representation.”
New Taxes on the Colonies
4. What was the Stamp Act?
5. Read about colonists’ reactions to the Stamp Act and fill out the chart below:
Colonial Reactions to the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
Stamp Act Congress
Boycotts
6. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but then passed the Declaratory Act, which stated—
7. Parliament passed a tax on imports called the Townshend Acts. Why did the British believe
this would be better than the Stamp Act?
8. Describe how women protested the Townshend Acts (include Warren in your answer).
6.2 Uniting the Colonists
1. Define the following term:
Propaganda
Committee of
Correspondence
Civil Disobedience
Trouble in Massachusetts
2. Read about the Boston Massacre and fill in the chart below.
When Parliament sent
Colonists thought British
Redcoats were mostly
__________ to Boston,
laws __________ their
______. In their off-time,
colonists believed Britain
rights. Now an ______
they ___________ for
had gone ____________.
would occupy the cities.
jobs Bostonians wanted.
_______ colonists died
The first colonist to be
Angry Bostonians threw
in the event that came to
killed was _________
sticks and _______ at the
be known as the
_________, part African
soldiers. After one fell,
____________________.
and Native American.
the redcoats _________.
3. How did colonial leaders use the killings as propaganda?
Samuel Adams: ________________________________________________________________
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Paul Revere: ___________________________________________________________________
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4. How did Parliament respond to the growing opposition and protest in the colonies?
Crisis in Boston
5. Read about the Tea Act and describe it below:
Reason
Description
Reaction
1.
2.
6. How did colonists try boycotting the Tea Act?
7. What did the Sons of Liberty do on December 16th, 1773?
8. How was the Boston Tea Party an act of civil disobedience?
9. Read about Britain’s response to the Boston Tea Party. Title and fill in the chart below:
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Parliament passed a series of laws called the ____________________________ in order to
__________ the colonists for resisting British _______________.
1. It forced the colonies to let British soldiers ________ among the colonists.
2. It banned _______________________________ in ___________________________.
3. It closed __________________________ until the colonists ________ for the ruined tea.
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The acts did not isolate Massachusetts, but instead drew the colonies __________________.
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Colonists expressed their feelings about the laws by calling them the __________________
Acts. Intolerable means painful and _____________________.