NEED ANSWERS FAST Distinguishing Fact From Fiction
Read the statements. If the statement is a fact, write F and explain how you could check its accuracy. If it is an opinion, write O and type the word or words that suggest it is opinion.
9 Points
1. Members of the British Parliament should have considered more carefully the effect of
their stamp policies on the American colonists.
2. The Stamp Act of 1765 required colonists to pay a tax on printed material.
3. Patrick Henry’s speeches before the Virginia House of Burgesses were the most stirring
political speeches made in colonial America.

4. I think taxes are as important in modern politics as in colonial politics.
5. Even after the repeal of the Townshend Acts, some colonial leaders continued to urge the colonists to resist British rule.
6. John Dickinson’s “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies” became a widely read publication.
7. If the British Parliament had limited its powers to regulating colonial trade, the colonists probably would not have rebelled.
8. George Washington was the only military leader capable of leading the Continental Army.
9. Thomas Paine referred to King George III as a “royal brute” in his pamphlet Common Sense.