BOSTON TEA PARTY

1. Prior to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament

repealed most of the _______________________ .

• TOWNSEND ACTS

• SUGAR ACTS

2. American merchants were ________________ in most of the tea in order to avoid paying customs duties.

• SMUGGLING

• SECURING

3. Supporters of the Tea Act argued that less smuggling in the American colonies would result in more ____________________ for the empire.

• TAX REVENUE

• SUPPLY OF PRODUCT

4. Colonists still saw the Tea Act as a direct and _________________ tax.

• VOLUNTARY

• INVOLUNTARY

5. ______________ _ saw the Tea Act as an opportunity to bring English tea back into the colonies.

• THE AMERICANS

• PARLIAMENT

6. The Townshend boycotts had __________________________ the British economy.

• DEVASTATED

• SUPPORTED

7. Smuggling had caused so much damage that the East India Tea Company was in danger of ___________________ .

• RIOTING

• BANKRUPTCY

8. Hundreds of Bostonians gathered inside the _______________ to discuss what to do about the tea in Boston Harbor.

• OLD SOUTH CHURCH

• PARLIAMENT

9. The Sons of Liberty seized _______________________ , split them open, and tossed them into the harbor.

• 342 CHESTS OF TEA

• 350 CHESTS OF GOLD

10. John Adams wrote, “The destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, so intrepid and inflexible, it must have important ____________________________________________ ."

• CONSEQUENCES

• TAXES