Chapter 4 - Section 1 Quiz - The Stirrings of Rebellion

Parliament passes the ____, requiring colonists to pay a direct tax on many printed documents.

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

_____ helps to found the Sons of Liberty, a secret terrorist group.

• King George III

• Samuel Adams

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

Colonists react with anger and resistance to the _____, which are taxes on imports of glass, lead, paint, etc.

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• martial law

Tensions rise between Britain and the colonies when the _____ leaves four colonists dead.

• Boston Tea Party

• martial law

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Massacre

The assemblies of Massachusetts and Virginia set up _____ to communicate with other colonies about the British taking away their rights.

• committees of correspondence

• The House of Burgesses

• The Sons of Liberty

• martial law

Colonists attack ships in the _____ to send a message to Britain about the Tea Act.

• Boston Massacre

• French and Indian War

• Boston Tea Party

• The Battle of Saratoga

_____, the royal head of England, forces Parliament to take quick action to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.

• King George III

• Samuel Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Parliament passes what the colonists call the _____, a series of rules that, among other things, shut down Boston Harbor and forced colonists to house British soldiers in private homes.

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

To keep the peace, General Thomas Gage places Boston under _____ and the military took control.

• martial law

• surrender

• rebellion

• resistance