Townshend Acts Quiz

What did the Townshend Acts do?

• put a restriction on storage for the colonists

• give colonists in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston a curfew

• taxed all imports into the colonies

• taxed products made in the colonies

After continued protests, the Townshend Act was mostly repealed. What was the only piece that was not?

• The tax on tea

• The tax on imports

• The tax on legal document

• The tax on lead and glass

Which of the following was not an item taxed under the townshend act?

• Paints

• Glass

• Lead

• Lumber

These acts placed a tax only on imported goods like paper, glass, tea, and lead.

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

• The Townshend Acts

• Writs of Assistance

The colonists hope that the tax would be taken away, or ____________

• repealed

• lost

• given

• refocused

(4) The Sons of _________________ took charge of Boston.

• Liberty

• finance

• troops

• jobs

(2) Trade slowed down because colonists _________________ British goods.

• boycotted

• repealed

• responsible

• taxation