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2. How was the Stamp Act of 1765 connected to the French and Indian War?

3. Because the ________ Act applied to papers, newspapers, advertisements, and other publications and legal documents, it was viewed by the colonists as a means of censorship or “knowledge tax” on rights of colonists to speak freely.

4. Reactions to the Stamp Act
“Only colonists have the right to tax themselves”
Patrick Henry
What methods should we use to protest this law?
Reactions to the Stamp Act

5. Stamp Act _____________ : the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation
This is very similar to an earlier attempt of the colonies to unify. Hint: it has something to do with Join or Die

6. Representation from where?

7. Time to send over the REDCOATS!

9. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty are Formed
Remember me?
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty are Formed

10. casket
Coordinated boycotts prompted the British Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act

11. If this be treason, then let us make the most of it
Patrick Henry

12. 1689

13. Tarred and Feathered Under the Liberty Tree

14. 1776

16. Taxation without……

17. A writs of assistance is a written order (a writ) issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform a certain task.

19. Seventy percent of the tea imported by the East India Company was Congou (kung-foo). Ninety percent of the tea drunk in the colonies was smuggled in. An average colonist drank three cups daily.

20. Boston Tea Party: Mobs turned back tea ships in several ports and dumped shiploads into Boston Harbor.

22. Propaganda
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view