Chapter 3, Section 5: Conflict in the Colonies Great Britain Raises Taxes • Colonial Governors and Legislatures Committees of Correspondence • Stamp Act of 1765 • Townshend Acts • To help pay for the __________________________ War and keep a standing _____________ in the colonies, Prime Minister _________________________________ asked Parliament to ___________ the colonists. • The __________________________________, which set duties (taxes) on ____________________________ and ________________________ imported by the colonists, was the first ___________ passed specifically to raise money in the __________________________. • British officials also tried harder to arrest __________________________. o ________________________________ courts treated suspected smugglers as ____________________ until proven _______________________________. • Parliament’s actions upset many colonists who had grown used to being ____________________________. • Colonists had no direct ________________________________ in parliament. • Samuel Adams believed ______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________. o “____________________________________________________________________________” became a popular slogan in the colonies. • (def.) ___________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________. • A popular method of protest was the ____________________, in which people refused to buy British goods. Colonists hoped their efforts would hurt the _______________________ economy and convince ___________________________ to end the new taxes. • (def.) __________________________________________________________________________. Colonists who refused to buy stamps could be _________________ or sent to _________________. • _______________________ over the Stamp Act began almost immediately. • Colonists formed a secret society called the _______________________________. o This group sometimes used ________________ to frighten tax collectors. • Pressure on ___________________________ to repeal, or _________________________ the Stamp Act grew quickly. It was repealed in ________________. • Upset that the colonists had _________________________________________________, Parliament passed the _____________________________________, which stated __________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________. • The act stripped away much of their _________________________________. • These acts placed duties on _________________________________________________ _____________________________. writs of assistance Boston Massacre The Boston Tea Party Tea Act Boston Tea Party The Intolerable Acts • (def.) __________________________________________________________________________. • The colonists responded to the Townshend Acts by _______________________ ___________________________________________. • Tax Collectors seized the ship ______________________ on suspicion of smuggling. In protest, the __________________________________ attacked the houses of customs officials. • The governor broke up the _________________________________________ and British __________________ arrived in Boston in October 1768. (def.) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________. What event led to the shootings? What was the significance of the Boston Massacre? • To reduce tensions in the colonies, Parliament repealed almost all the ________________________________, except the tax on ____________. • (def.) ___________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________. • (def.) ___________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________. • The Intolerable Acts were also known as the ______________________________. • Effects: 1. ______________________________________________________________________________
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