Question | Answer |
What product does the Stamp Act tax? | It was a tax on any paper products. |
What is Boycott? | A group of people who decided to stop buying items. |
Who started the Boycott? | Son of Liberty |
What did they Boycott? | The Boycott buying paper products. |
When did the Stamp Act take place? | 1765 |
When did the Townshend Act take place? | 1769 |
The Townshend Act imposed duties on what items? | glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea |
Why did Britain place taxes on these items? | These goods were highly sought after |
How did the colonists get around to get these items? | They smuggled them. |
How did parliament handle the colonists reaction? | They repealed all except tax on tea |
What year did the parliament repeal the Townshend Act? | 1770 |
What happened to cause the parliament of the reconsider the Tea Act? | The Boston Massacre |
How did the Boston Massacre begin? | an argument between an wig apprentice and a British soldier |
What did the colonists do? | they threw snowballs with rocks and sticks inside of them |
What did the British do in return? | they fired shots into the crowd |
Who was blamed? | 3 soldiers were found guilty |
Where were they tried? | Lexington |