I WILL GIVE BRAINLIST AND 75 POINTS MORERead the statements. If the statement is a fact, write F and explain how you could check its accuracy. If it is an opinion, write O and type the word or words that suggest it is opinion.

_____ 1. Members of the British Parliament should have considered more carefully the effect of their stamp policies on the American colonists.

_____ 2. The Stamp Act of 1765 required colonists to pay a tax on printed material.

_____ 3. Patrick Henry’s speeches before the Virginia House of Burgesses were the most stirring political speeches made in colonial America. _____

4. I think taxes are as important in modern politics as in colonial politics.

_____ 5. Even after the repeal of the Townshend Acts, some colonial leaders continued to urge the colonists to resist British rule.

_____ 6. John Dickinson’s “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies” became a widely read publication.

_____ 7. If the British Parliament had limited its powers to regulating colonial trade, the colonists probably would not have rebelled.

_____ 8. George Washington was the only military leader capable of leading the Continental Army.

_____ 9. Thomas Paine referred to King George III as a “royal brute” in his pamphlet Common Sense.