The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party

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What was the purpose of the Tea Act passed by Parliament in 1773?

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To grant the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies

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The colonists refused to pay the tea tax even though the price of tea was lowered because:

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They believed in 'no taxation without representation.'

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The event known as the Boston Tea Party involved:

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the destruction of tea in Boston Harbor

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The laws that the colonists referred to as 'Intolerable Acts' were called:

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The Coercive Acts

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Fill in the blank: The colonists called these laws the _______ Acts because they wouldn’t tolerate or accept them.

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Intolerable

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Vocabulary: The word 'intolerable' means:

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unbearable

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What inspired Virginia to call for a meeting of all the colonies, which became the First Continental Congress in September 1774? Options: The Boston Tea Party, The Intolerable Acts, The Stamp Act, The Boston Massacre

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The Intolerable Acts

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Fill in the blank: By the end of the Congress, many colonists considered themselves not just individual Virginians, New Yorkers, or Rhode Islanders but members of a group of ________ colonies.

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the thirteen