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Taxes and Protest Answers

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The American colonies said there should be no taxation without representation. In 1766, Parliament responded by passing the

A
Declaratory Act.
B
Stamp Act.
C
Sugar Act.
D
Townshend Acts.
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In the 1760s, American colonists responded to Parliament’s taxes in several ways. Which way was most effective?

A
formal demands by colonial legislators
B
acts of violence by groups of colonists
C
widespread boycotts of British goods
D
votes in Parliament against the new taxes
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How did the Stamp Act of 1765 get its name?

A
It was a tax related to mailing and postage stamps.
B
Colonists wanted to stamp out the tax and end it.
C
People paid the tax by handing in stamps bought in advance.
D
Goods were stamped to show the tax had been paid.
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In 1766, the British Parliament passed the Declaratory Act to

A
impose a new tax on the colonists.
B
insist it had the right to tax colonists.
C
create punishments for nonpayment of taxes.
D
establish new tax-collection measures.
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In the 1760s, Britain imposed a series of taxes on its American colonies. In response, the colonists

A
protested these taxes.
B
created their own taxes.
C
voted against the taxes.
D
peacefully paid the taxes.
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What happened at the Stamp Act Congress of 1765?

A
Delegates supported taxation without representation.
B
Delegates officially ended the Stamp Act.
C
Delegates petitioned against the Stamp Act.
D
Delegates passed a new version of the Stamp Act.
7

How was Crispus Attucks significant during the Revolutionary Era?

A
Attucks was one of the colonial leaders who served on the Committees of Correspondence.
B
Attucks was a free African American living in the southern colonies among enslaved workers.
C
Attucks agreed to defend the soldiers on trial for killing five townspeople in the Boston Massacre.
D
Attucks became a symbol of the colonial cause of liberty after dying in the Boston Massacre.
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Which of the following best describes the events of the Boston Massacre?

A
Boston townspeople attacked and killed five British soldiers.
B
British soldiers attacked and killed five Boston townspeople.
C
British soldiers attacked Boston townspeople, who shot five soldiers dead.
D
Boston townspeople attacked British soldiers, who shot five colonists dead.
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Which colonial leader argued that the Boston Massacre was a fight for American liberty?

A
John Adams
B
Samuel Adams
C
Crispus Attucks
D
Thomas Jefferson
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What was the main reason American colonists considered the Stamp Act to be unfair?

A
The Stamp Act was an indirect tax that was hard to protest.
B
The Stamp Act related to molasses, which was an everyday item.
C
The Stamp Act required only traders to pay the new tax.
D
The Stamp Act was an example of taxation without representation.

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