5 pts
Question 5
What was the colonists' response to the taxation of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?
At this time, the colonists realized there was nothing they could do about these acts, so they obeyed them even though
they knew they were unfair.
The colonists knew that there was nothing they could do against their king and Parliament, so they bribed tax officials to
tell Britain that the colonists were following these British acts.
The colonists seized British goods on in-coming ships, sold the goods, and paid the unfair taxes.
The colonists boycotted buying British goods and they wrote a letter of protest to the king!