Q 01/05

Besides newspapers and legal papers, which pastime item needed a tax stamp under the Stamp Act of 1765?

A) Chess sets

B) Playing cards

C) Tobacco pipes

D) Fiddle strings

Answer · why

B) Playing cards

Playing cards carried a tax of a shilling a pack, and dice were charged ten times as much.

Q 02/05

What did Stamp Act protesters say the colonies lacked in Parliament, making its tax on them unjust?

A) Representation

B) A right of veto

C) A right of appeal

D) Royal patronage

Answer · why

A) Representation

Representation was the sticking point because colonists elected nobody to Parliament; they held that only their own assemblies could tax them.

Q 03/05

Which American agent in London answered MPs' questions on the Stamp Act in the House of Commons in February 1766?

A) John Hancock

B) Gouverneur Morris

C) Benjamin Franklin

D) Benjamin Rush

Answer · why

C) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin needed the win: he had recommended a friend as stamp distributor, and angry Pennsylvanians had threatened his Philadelphia home.

Q 04/05

Which new member of Virginia's House of Burgesses drew cries of treason with his 1765 speech against the Stamp Act?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) George Wythe

C) Peyton Randolph

D) Patrick Henry

Answer · why

D) Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry had been sworn in only nine days earlier, and most of the burgesses had already gone home when his resolutions passed.

Q 05/05

In which city did delegates from nine colonies gather for the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765?

A) Philadelphia

B) New York

C) Boston

D) Annapolis

Answer · why

B) New York

New York hosted the delegates in its City Hall, where Federal Hall now stands; the same building, remodelled, later became the first capitol of the Un...