The Townshend Acts & The Boston Massacre

Which people in American society did the Stamp Act seem to impact directly? [Select ALL That APPLY]

• Lawyers

• Newspaper Owners

• Tavern keepers

• Merchants

By not allowing the American colonists to have representation in British Parliament, the colonists felt that their rights had been violated. What document did colonists point to when making this argument?

• Proclamation of 1763

• English Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

The mob outside the custom official's house throwing rocks had been protesting soldiers staying in colonist's homes when the 11-year-old boy was shot and killed. What Act are the American colonists protesting?

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

What did the British private do after the whig maker's apprentice poked him in the chest?

• shot him

• punched him

• stabs him with his bayonet

• hit him with his musket

The mob of Bostonians - in addition to yelling "Fire"- are throwing what at the British soldiers? [Select ALL That APPLY]

• sharp oyster shells

• snowballs

• ice

• apples

During the "Boston Massacre," why IS NOT POSSIBLE for Captain Thomas Preston to have given the order to "Fire" ?

• He says "HALT" and stops the British soldiers from continuing to fire on the mob

• He said he wouldn't fire to Richard Palmer, the merchant

• The order to "FIRE" came from behind the soldiers. Preston was standing in front of them.

In the propaganda war between Loyalists and Boston radicals (patriots), who published an engraving showing the British soldiers purposely shooting into a "peaceful, unarmed, crowd." ?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Revere

• John Adams

• George Washington

Why might John Adams have NOT WANTED to take the case and be the lawyer for the British soldiers who were at the Boston Massacre?

• He loved King George III

• He didn't believe the Boston Massacre had happened

• He was British Loyalist

• It would make him unpopular and hurt his business.

John Adam's argument rested on the idea that the British soldiers HAD THE RIGHT TO....

• the British soldiers had the right to shoot and kill

• the British soldiers had the right to self-defense

• the British soldiers had the right attack the mob

• the British soldiers had the right attack and kill colonists

The Boston Massacre united American colonist's anger towards, not just the British army, but also.... [Choose 2]

• The Mayor of Boston

• King George III

• elected assemblies in the American colonies

• British Government's taxes