Colonists in North America undertook several acts of resistance to the Stamp Act. These actions helped persuade Pitt and Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act while encouraging them to pass the Declaratory Act. Using the excerpt above, answer (A), (B), and (C).

(A) In 2-3 sentences, describe TWO ways in which colonists "have been driven to madness by injustice."

(B) In 2-3 sentences, describe TWO ways in which the law encouraged greater organization and unity among colonists.

(C) In 2-3 sentences, explain how Pitt's statement foreshadows the passage of the Declaratory Act.












Excerpt from William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14, 1766

The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper. They have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America, that she will follow the example. ... Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is, that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the reason for the repeal should be assigned, because it was founded on an erroneous principle. At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend every point of legislation whatsoever: that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking money out of their pockets without their consent.