Road to Revolution Quiz

This will be passed as a direct result of the French and Indian War. The war was caused due to westward expansion and this line was a limitation on that very idea.

• The Tea Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Quartering Act

This will be a series of taxes on all British imports like lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea.

• Tea Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Port Act

How many people died in the Boston Massacre?

• 5

• 12

• 67

• 18 trillion. It was called a massacre for a reason.

Who is the first person to die in the Boston Massacre?

• John Adams

• Crispus Attucks

• Thomas Jefferson

• William McKinley

The Tea Act took the failing British East India Company's surplus of tea and sent it _________.

• ...to the major cities like New York, Philadelphia, and most famously Boston. The colonists would go on to protest the tea, later dumping it in the Boston Harbor.

• ...to England where it would be consumed at a high rate until the surplus no longer existed.

• ....to America where it would be heavily taxed. America hated the tax, but consumed the tea anyways, supporting the British East India Company.

• ....into the Boston Harbor. The only way for the business to survive was to dump all of the excess tea into the Harbor. It cost the colony nearly $2 million in today's money.

This group led the Boston Tea Party, in which they will dump 342 casks of tea into the Boston Harbor.

• The Sons of Liberty

• The Boys of Summer

• The Committee of Correspondents

• The New England Patriots

The Sons of Liberty will disguise themselves as what during the Boston Tea Party in an effort to not be able to be identified?

• Native Americans

• British Redcoats

• Colonists

• British Parliament

Which of these presents these events in chronological order?

• 1. Tea Act

  2. Formation of the First Continental Congress

  3. Boston Tea Party

  4. Intolerable Acts

• 1. Intolerable Acts

  2. Tea Act

  3. Formation of the First Continental Congress

  4. Boston Massacre

• 1. 1. Tea Act

  2. Boston Tea Party

  3. Intolerable Acts

  4. Formation of the First Continental Congress

• 1. Tea Act

  2. Intolerable Acts

  3. Boston Tea Party

  4. Formation of the First Continental Congress

What is passed as a direct punishment of the Boston Tea Party?

• The Tea Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Massacre

• The Declaration of Independence

Which was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?

• Battle of Yorktown

• Boston Massacre

• Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Bunker Hill