Fast and Curious: Unit 3A Stamp Act

The Stamp Act was passed by the British government to

• help the Post Office make money

• raise money to pay for the French and Indian War

• to stamp out protests in America

Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763?

• • to encourage settlement of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

• • to pay for soldiers in the colonies

• to reduce conflict between colonists and Native Americans on the frontier

True or false: Georgia was the only colony to sell the stamps required by the Stamp Act.

• False

• True

Americans were angry about the Stamp Act because

• They did not have any representatives in Parliament to vote on the new tax

• They had enough stamps already

• No one in America thought they should help the king out by paying taxes

The Sons of Liberty  were formed in response to the

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Proclamation of 1763

To refuse to use or buy something as a protest.

• Repeal

• Boycott

• Bargain

People who protested the Stamp Act called themselves Patriots.

People who accepted the Stamp Act as their responsibility under British law called themselves...

• Forty-niners

• Loyalists

• Salzburgers