The colonists opposed the Stamp Tax because it
a. was the first direct internal tax passed by Parliament for the North American colonies.
b. was an indirect external tax on goods imported into the colonies.
c. was too expensive to enforce.
d. gave too much authority to colonial common law courts.
e. required a large number of tax collectors to be sent from England.
a
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was
A) well known in literary circles prior to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. B) a strident abolitionist. C) a fugitive slave who wrote about the horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act. D) not a professional writer but had been roused by the Fugitive Slave Act.
The success of the Bolshevik coup of November 6 was surprising, given the group's _________.
A. previous failure to gain power B. association with the tsarist government C. criminal status D. decline in the early 1910s
The Free Speech Movement organized by Mario Savio in 1964 had its start at __________ after this school's administration shut down an off-campus area where students could hand out political pamphlets or give speeches
A) Kent State University B) the University of California, Berkeley C) the University of Michigan D) the University of Mississippi
Locations such as Madeira, Barbados, Jamaica, and Haiti illustrate the commercial connection between slavery and __________.
A. tobacco B. cotton C. sugar D. rice