British Laws Incite Resistance and Rebellion Quick Check Answers 1. Why did colonists oppose and organize against the Stamp Act? ANSWER IS B: It caused economic hardship by raising the costs for consumers and businesses.

2. Which group focused their opposition efforts to boycotts of British goods with the production of homespun yarn and cloth? ANSWER IS A: Daughters of Liberty

3. Which circumstances MOST DIRECTLY contributed to the tensions that erupted in the Boston Massacre?: ANSWER IS C: the stationing of British troops in Boston to shore up British rule

4. Which British practice increased anger among colonists in Boston and other port cities?: ANSWER IS A: impressment

1ans-They thought that the stamp taxes were expensive and inconvenient. A. They said that they were being taxed without being represented.

2ans-The Daughters of Liberty was a group of 92 women who looked to rebel against British taxes by making home goods instead of buying them from the British. Using their feminine skills of the time, they made homespun cloth and other goods.

3ans-The heavy presence of British troops in Boston that lead to the fatal shooting was the direct results of the Townshend Acts passed by British Parliament to impose additional taxes on common products imported into the Colonies. These products among others included paper, glass and tea.

4ans-In 1774, the UK passed what are known as the Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts, a series of punitive measures meant to teach the rebellious colonists who was boss. Much of the tea that angry colonists dumped into the Boston Harbor was green tea

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