Studies Weekly Week 5- Boston Tea Party

What year did the Boston Tea Party take place?

• 1770

• 1771

• 1772

• 1773

What did the colonists throw into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party?

• Water

• Tea

• Sugar

• Gunpowder

Select the three ships that were central to the Boston Tea Party.

• the Dartmouth

• the Beaver

• the Bradlee

• the Eleanor

How many chests of tea did they throw into the harbor?

• 340

• 350

• 342

• 352

What is vandalism?

• the act of boarding a ship

• the action of dumping tea

• the action of harming someone's property

• the act of placing a tax on tea

Who is thought of as the Mother of the Boston Tea Party?

• Sarah Bradlee Fulton

• Abigail Adams

• Clara Barton

• Susan Boudinot

How was the Boston Tea Party different from an actual tea party?

• The Boston Tea Party was an event to sip and drink tea.

• The Boston Tea Party was an act of vandalism- they dumped tea into a harbor.

• The tax on tea was celebrated during the Boston Tea Party.

• Many considered the Boston Tea Party Britain’s first tea-drinking party in the colonies.

Which of the 13 colonies did NOT attend the first Continental Congress?

• Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• Georgia

Why did the colonists hold the First Continental Congress?

• They wanted to start their own taxes.

• They wanted to start a war right away.

• They wanted to discuss what to do about the unfair treatment by the king.

• They wanted to discuss how to give more gifts to England.

True or False:

The Coercive Acts closed the Boston Harbor until the cost of the tea was repaid.

• True

• False