Module 4 Lesson 1 Conflict in the Colonies

1.Why did Great Britain pass the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts?

• to punish colonists for supporting the French during the French and Indian War

• to pay for new roads and canals across North America

• to punish colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party

• to pay for keeping an army in North America

What was the Boston Massacre?

• an incident where colonists clashed with British soldiers and five colonists died as a result

• an attack on colonists by British soldiers to punish them for boycotting British goods

• the execution of British soldiers for their part in the deaths of five colonists

• the violent seizure of colonists to serve in the British army and navy

What was the Tea Act?

• It allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists instead of to colonial merchants.

• It placed a tax on tea so that colonists had to pay higher prices for tea bought from colonial merchants.

• It limited how much tea each colonist could purchase form the British East India Company.

• It forced colonists to buy British tea instead of the less-expensive colonial tea.

Why did Parliament pass the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts?

• to force colonists to buy their own tea

• to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party

• to force colonists to pass their own laws

• to punish Boston for the Boston Massacre

Colonists challenged British taxes effectively by

• fighting

• striking

• boycotting

• picketing

One of the more disliked parts of the Intolerable Acts was the Quartering Act, which required colonists to ______________.

• pay taxes on housing

• house British soldiers

• give a quarter of their land to Quebec

• None of the above

During the Boston Massacre, _________________ was a casualty of the incident.

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Crispus Attucks

• James Otis

• Samuel Adams

How did some colonial women protest British taxes?

• Mercy Otis Warren wrote plays accusing British officials of being greedy.

• The Daughters of Liberty supported the boycott of the Townshend Acts.

• Both A & B

• None of the Above

Why might Samuel Adams and other colonial leaders have spread the story of the Boston Massacre to other colonies?

• They wanted to make the British government look bad.

• They wanted to build support for colonial rights.

• Both A & B

• None of the above

How did the smuggling of tea into the British colonies probably affect taxes collected on tea?

• Since most tea was smuggled into the colonies, the British government collected very little tax money.

• Since most tea was smuggled into the colonies, the British government collected a lot of tax money.

• Since most tea was smuggled into the colonies, the colonial government collected a lot of tax money.

• None of the above