British Acts Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Sugar Act | -April 1764 (First) -Indirect tax -Reduce price of imported molasses E-"No taxation without representation"/Samuel Adams&James Otis |
Stamp Act | -March 1765 -Direct tax -required all colonists to buy special stamped paper E-Formed Sons of Liberty? NYC for first Continental Congress- no representation in Brit. parliament |
Quartering Acts (pt. 1) | -May 1765 -brit. soldiers stayed in colonists homes E-refused to house them |
Declaratory Act | -March 1766 -Brit. Parl. had all control over colonies E-ignored the tax and celebrated |
Quartering Acts (pt. 2) | -1774 -stated soldiers could just walk in and stay and have food E-colonists disputed because it violated bill of rights |
Townshend Acts | -Spring 1767 - taxed glass, lead, tea, paint(indirect) E-Riots, boycott, Boston Massacre& tea party/ John Hancock&Sam Adams 38% less import |
Intolerable Acts | -March 1774 1-closed boston harbor 2-full power to Gen. Gage(martial law) 3-move smuggling trials to brit. 4- |
who is the author of midnight right of paul revere ? | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
1 if by land | two if by sea |
what river does he cross | Mystic |
what town | medford |
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