CH3 Lesson3 Uniting the Colonists

Twenty colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre.

• True

• False

Boycotts following the Boston Massacre helped repeal the Townshend Acts.

• True

• False

The committee of correspondence was a system of letter writing between the colonial governors and the king.

• True

• False

At the time of the Boston Tea Party, most colonists still considered themselves as British citizens.

• True

• False

Parliament successfully isolated Boston from the rest of the colonies by passing the Coercive Acts.

• True

• False

When Britain learned that the colonies were on the brink of rebellion in 1768, what was Parliament’s response?

• Parliament closed Boston Harbor.

• Parliament did nothing.

• Parliament sent a letter to the colonies.

• Parliament sent troops to Boston.

Paul Revere’s engraving of which event was an example of propaganda that led to more intense anti-British feelings among the colonists?

• Liberty Affair

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

Which act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated?

• Boston Tea Party

• Coercive Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Massacre

What was the colonial name for laws that banned town meetings in New England?

• Navigation Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Coercive Acts

• Boston Tea Party