Boston Tea Party

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

• Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts

• Georgia

• Virginia

Why didn’t the colonists like the Coercive Acts?

• The Continental Congress forced the opening of the Boston Harbor until after the costs of tea were repaid.

• Parliament forced the closing of the Boston Harbor until the costs of tea were repaid

• The Continental Congress forced the closing of the Boston Harbor until tea costs were repaid.

• Parliament forced the opening of the Boston Harbor after the costs of tea were repaid.

What is vandalism?

• The action of dumping tea

• The act of boarding a ship

• The act of placing a tax on tea

• The action of harming someone else’s property

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

(CHOOSE 3)

• The Dartmouth

• The Bradlee

• The Eleanor

• The Beaver

What is homespun cloth?

• cloth made in East India to make clothes

• cloth colonial women used to make clothes because they refused to buy from the British

• cloth made in Britain to make clothes

•   cloth British women used to make clothes because they refused to buy from the colonies

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

• The Boston Tea Party was an event to sip and drink tea. An actual tea party occurs on a British cricket

• Many considered the Boston Tea Party Britain’s first tea-drinking party in the colonies. An actual tea party was one that started during the first Continental Congress.

•   Many considered the Boston Tea Party an act of vandalism—dumping someone else’s tea in a harbor. An actual tea party is an event to sip and drink tea.

•    The tax on tea was celebrated during the Boston Tea Party. An actual tea party is an event that serves small sandwiches.