We’re Not Gonna Take It!
Colonial Protests in the 1760s and 1770s
1. Why did the British begin taxing the colonies in the 1760s?
2. Why did the colonists resist paying the taxes passed by Parliament?
3. If the colonists weren’t represented in Parliament, where were they represented?
4. What is the name of the colonial protest group formed by Sam Adams?
5. What is civil disobedience?
6. How did the colonists know that their boycott of British goods after the passage of the Stamp
Act and Townshend Acts were successful?
7. What resulted from the tension between British soldiers and colonists caused by the Quartering
Act?
8. Which occurred first – the Intolerable Acts or the Boston Tea Party?
9. List two decisions made by the members of the First Continental Congress.
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10. Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired?
11. Name one example of civil disobedience used by the colonists to protest the British.