Intolerable Acts Unit 1

Which of the following acts is not an Intolerable Act?

• Boston Port Act

• Continental Acts

• Government Bill

• Quartering Act

What is the reason the British Parliament imposed the Boston Port Act?

• To increase the pay for troops protecting Boston.

• To buy the loyalty of local government officials in Boston.

• To pay for the destruction of the tea dumped.

• To impose restrictions against citizens for the Boston Massacre.

What was the main purpose of the Government Bill?

• To make the colonists loyal to the British King.

• To pay for the tea the colonists dumped in the harbor.

• To replace the governor in Boston with a army general.

• To force colonists to house and feed the soldiers.

What is an effect of the Intolerable Acts?

• It forced the colonists to join together and create the Continental Congress.

• It forced the colonists to pay taxes to Great Britain and house the soldiers.

• It forced the colonists to farm and feed the soldiers living in the colonies.

• It forced the colonists to move out of the colonies and back to Great Britain.

Which act forced the colonists to house and feed the soldiers after the Boston Tea Party?

• Boston Port Act

• Quartering Act

• Sugar Act

• Government Act

The colonists wrote a _____________ to King George III to acknowledge their rights and grievances against the British empire.

• militia

• resolution

• boycott

• petition

The Townshend Acts and the Intolerable Acts lead to which of the following events?

• The Civil Rights Movement

• The Settlement of Jamestown

• The Bill of Rights

• The American Revolution