history help...1754-1776?

Question

3.The _________________ Act widened the terms of the imperial debate, intensified resistance within the colonies, and, most important, provoked the first real display of intercolonial unity.

Answer 1

The Stamp Act

Answer 2

It all started with the American Revolution which led to the Stamp/ Sugar Act

http://encarta.msn.com/text_761569964__1/American_Revolution.html
American Revolution
(1754-1763) changed the relationship between the colonies and their mother country. Finally, a decade of conflicts between the British government and the colonists, beginning with the Stamp Act crisis in 1765, led to the outbreak of war in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776.


Two of the major events commonly regarded as preludes to the American Revolution were the enactment of the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), designed to increase British tax revenues. In the American colonies these Acts were not only dealt with in terms of economic disadvantage but increasingly in terms of right, the focal point being the question whether Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.

Answer 3

Perhaps it was the Stamp Act.

Stamp Act, 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville. The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The revenue obtained from the sale of stamps was designated for colonial defense; while the means of raising revenue was novel, the application of such revenue to defense continued existing British policy. The act was vehemently denounced in the colonies by those it most affected: businessmen, merchants...

Answer 4

Stamp Act