8 - Mod 14 - Quiz

1. The Stamp Act was repealed due to stiff colonial resistance and the pressures of organized ___________________________ .

• SMUGGLING

• BOYCOTTS

2. King ________________________________ wanted the colonists to pay for damages caused by rioting and the price of printing millions of now worthless stamps.

• GEORGE III

• HENRY

3. In 1767, Parliament passed an ambitious series of laws that became known as the _______________________________ .

• TOWNSHEND ACTS

• SUGAR ACT

4. The revenue from the Townshend Acts would go to pay the salaries of ________________________ that the colonists were already providing housing and supplies for.

• TROOPS AND OFFICERS

• STAMP COMMISSIONERS

5. __________________________ gave British authorities the right to search any building or vessel for any reason.

• DIRECT TAXATION

• WRITS OF ASSISTANCE

6. ______________________ organized protests, secret societies, and Committees of Correspondence.

• SONS OF LIBERTY

• DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY

What year did the Boston Massacre occur?

• 1770

• 1774

• 1775

• 1776

• 1780

What famous patriot defended British soldiers in their trial?

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Paine

• Sam Adams

Who was Crispus Attucks?

• A runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre

• A private in the British army

• The judge in the Boston Massacre trial

• The first British soldier to shoot a colonist

• The captain in charge of the British soldiers

True or False: The colonists were throwing things at the British and daring them to fire their guns.

• True

• False