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1. Look at the timeline on Ch. 6 “Place and Time.” Copy all 7 events on the Americas timeline:
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6.1 No Taxation Without Representation
Dealing with Great Britain
2. Define the following term:
Writ of assistance
A court document allowing customs officers to enter any
location to search for smuggled goods
3. What were two reasons Britain needed new revenue, or income, after the war?
1.
To pay for the 10,000 troops sent to enforce the Proclamation
2.
To pay for large debts from the French and Indian War
4. How did Parliament decide to get that revenue?
Britain issued new taxes on the colonies. It also enforced old taxes more strictly.
5. How did Parliament decide to stop colonial smuggling?
Parliament passed a law to have accused smugglers tried by royally appointed
judges rather than local juries. They also empowered customs officers to obtain writs
of assistance.
6. Why did Parliament lower the tax on imported molasses for colonists?
They hoped this change would convince the colonists to pay the tax instead of
smuggling. The act also allowed officers to seize goods from accused smugglers
without going to court.
7. What were two reasons the colonists believed the Sugar Act violated their rights?
As British citizens, they had a right to a trial by jury and to be viewed as
innocent until proven guilty according to British law.
2. Colonists also believed they had a right to be secure in their homes without the
threat of officers barging in to search for smuggled goods.
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8. Explain the principle of “no taxation without representation.”
Since the colonies lacked representation in Parliament, many colonists considered it
unjust for Parliament to tax the colonies.
New Taxes on the Colonies
9. Define the following terms:
Resolution
An official expression of opinion by a group
Effigy
A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual
Boycott
To refuse to by items in order to show disapproval or force
acceptance of one’s terms
Repeal
To cancel an act or law
10. What was included in the Stamp Act?
This law taxed all printed materials. Newspapers, wills, and even playing cards
needed a stamp to show that the tax had been paid.
11. Read about opposition to the Stamp Act and describe various reactions below:
Patrick Henry: Got the House of Burgesses to take action—they passed a resolution
saying only the burgesses could tax its citizens.
Samuel Adams: Helped start the Sons of Liberty, a group who took to the streets to
protest the Stamp Act.
Stamp Act Congress: Delegates from nine colonies sent a statement to the king and
Parliament declaring that only colonial assemblies could tax colonists.
Boycotts: People in colonial cities urged merchants to boycott British goods and
businesses in Britain lost money
12. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but then passed the Declaratory Act, which stated—
Parliament had the right to tax & make decisions for the colonies “in all cases.”
13. Why did Parliament believe the Townshend Acts would be better than the Stamp Act?
They believed colonists would be less likely to resist a tax that was not internal (paid
inside the colonies). The Townshend Acts taxed imports when the goods arrived—
before they were brought in the colonies.
14. Describe how women protested the Townshend Acts (include Warren in your answer).
Some organized as the Daughters of Liberty and began boycotts of British goods.
Mercy Otis Warren, a leader of the Daughters of Liberty, later wrote pamphlets and
poems urging separation from Britain. She wrote plays ridiculing British officials.
6.2 Uniting the Colonists
Trouble in Massachusetts
1. Define the following terms:
Propaganda
Committee of
Correspondence
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a
cause
An organization that spread political ideas and
information through the colonies
2. What made colonists think the British had gone too far? Why?
Parliament sent troops to Boston and the Redcoats set up camp in the city
3. How were colonists treating the British soldiers in the streets on the night of the shooting?
They were angry, throwing sticks and stones at the soldiers, and taunting them by
daring them to fire.
4. Describe the first of five colonists that were killed by the British in the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks was a dockworker who was part African and part Native American.
5. How did colonial leaders use the killings as propaganda?
Samuel Adams: put up posters that described the Boston Massacre as a slaughter of
innocent Americans by bloodthirsty redcoats.
Paul Revere: made an engraving that showed a British officer giving the order to open
fire on an orderly crowd.
6. How did Parliament respond to the growing opposition and protest in the colonies?
They repealed the Townshend Acts taxes on British imports, except the one on tea.
Crisis in Boston
7. Define the following terms:
Civil Disobedience
Coercive
The use of nonviolent protests to challenge a government or
its laws
The forceful pressure used to make someone do something
8. Read about the Tea Act and describe it below:
Reason passed: To help save the British East India Company and protect the British
economy
Description: It gave the British East India Company nearly total control of the market
for tea in the colonies. It also removed some of the taxes on tea, making it less
expensive for colonists.
Colonists’ Reaction: They remained angry and did not want to pay any tax or be told
what tea they could buy.
9. How did colonists boycott the Tea Act?
Colonists tried to stop East India Company ships from unloading. The Daughters of
Liberty said rather than part with freedom, “We’ll part with our tea.” Colonists in
New York and Philadelphia forced the tea ships to turn back.
10. What did the Sons of Liberty do on December 16th, 1773?
At midnight, colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded the ships and threw
342 chests of tea overboard.
11. How was the Boston Tea Party an act of civil disobedience?
The Sons of Liberty disagreed with the tax on tea, and refused to obey the law.
12. What was the purpose of the Coercive Acts?
These laws were meant to punish the colonists for resisting British authority.
13. What were three laws included in the Coercive Acts?
Forced the colonies to let British soldiers live among the colonists
2. Banned town meetings in Massachusetts
3. Closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the ruined tea
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14. What was the effect of the Coercive Acts?
Britain intended to cut Massachusetts off from other colonies, but the acts drew them
together.
15. How did colonists express their feelings about the Coercive Acts?
To express how the laws violated their rights as English citizens, they called the acts
the Intolerable Acts.