Stamp Act Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Stamp Act? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What was the common shorthand slogan used against the Stamp Act?
"No taxation without representation."
"Give me liberty or give me death."
"We the people."
"I have ants in my pants and they make me do the kooky dance."
Q. What does "no taxation without representation" mean?
The crown does not have the right to levy taxes on a population not represented in Parliament.
The crown does not have the right to levy taxes on a population so far away from the capital.
Taxes are inherently illegal.
It was the name of Patrick Henry's college band.
Q. What was the document that gave the colonists legal precedent for no taxation without representation?
The Bill of Rights of 1689
The Magna Carta
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Liner Notes of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Q. What would have been the likely outcome of allowing the colonists to be represented in Parliament?
Not much. The colonists would have been vastly outnumbered and whatever laws the crown wanted would have been enacted anyway.
Some. English Parliamentary procedure allows special dispensation to minority populations.
A lot. The colonists could have turned Parliament against the crown early and in essence, run Britain's government.
Earth-shaking. Thomas Jefferson would have been made King of England.
Q. When did Patrick Henry deliver his famous "give me liberty" speech and why?
1775, to get Virginia to raise a militia.
1765, in protest of the Stamp Act.
1785, as a rejoinder to what he felt was the potential for tyranny in the Constitution.
1985, to the ticket guy who wouldn't give him the senior prices to see Back to the Future.