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Chapter 10
Tensions Between GB and the Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| laws passed by a government | acts |
| to openly disagree with something | protest |
| to cancel or take back | repealed |
| money owed to a person or group | debt |
| Britain's law making group of government | Parliament |
| What act placed a tax on printed papers in the colonies, such as newspapers and playing cards? | The Stamp Act |
| What event involved the Sons of Liberty dressing up as Native Americans and dumping chests of tea into Boston Harbor? | The Boston Tea Party |
| What was a result of the French and Indian War? | Great Britain went into lots of debt |
| What act involved soldiers living in the colonist homes? | The Quartering Act |
| What act placed a tax on imported goods such as paper tea and wool? | The Townshend Acts |
| What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763? | to protect the colonists |
| How did the colonists react to the Stamp Act? | protested until it was repealed |
| What did the colonists call the laws that were passed to punish them after the Boston Tea Party? | The Intolerable Acts |
| What did Britain do to try and pay off their debt from the French and Indian War? | taxed the colonists |