Colonists and Taxes

Colonists and Taxes

5th Grade

13 Qs

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Colonists and Taxes

Colonists and Taxes

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the first tax placed directly on the American colonists by Parliament?

The Townshend Acts

The Tea Act

The Stamp Act

The Boston Massacre

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happened on March 5, 1770, that became known as the Boston Massacre?

Colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

British soldiers fired into an angry crowd

The Stamp Act was repealed

The Sons of Liberty organized a protest

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did the colonists boycott British goods?

Because they opposed the new taxes imposed by Parliament

Because they wanted to support the British government

Because they wanted to buy goods from other countries

Because they wanted to pay only some taxes.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Tea Act of 1773 do?

Placed a tax on all paper documents

Put taxes on household items

Created a monopoly on tea sales

Repealed the Townshend Acts

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who benefited from the Tea Act and the monopoly it created?

The East India Company

The colonial legislatures

The Sons of Liberty

The British Loyalists

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What event led to the dumping of 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor?

The Stamp Act

The Edenton Tea Party

The Boston Massacre

The Tea Act

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the women of North Carolina resolve to do to protest taxation without representation?

Give up buying British goods

Give up both drinking tea and using British cloth

Give up using British cloth

Give up drinking tea

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