Colonial America Unit Test

Which best describes the Boston Tea Party of 1773?

• American Indians boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea into the water.

  
  

• Colonists in disguise boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water.

  
  

• The British dumped tea in Boston Harbor after colonists boycotted a shipment of tea, refusing to buy it.

  
  

• Colonists met in Boston’s Old South Meeting House to discuss how to smuggle tea into the colonies.

  
  

What was the goal of the Boston Port Bill, one of the Intolerable Acts?

• to increase activity in Boston Harbor

  
  

• to rebuild Boston Harbor

  
  

• to isolate Boston by closing its harbor

  
  

• to create new taxes for Boston Harbor

  
  

Which of the following Intolerable Acts related to the housing of British troops?

• the Boston Port Bill

  
  

• the Administration of Justice Act

  
  

• the Massachusetts Government Act

  
  

• the Quartering Act

  
  

What happened at Concord in April of 1775?

• The British retreated from the fierce fighting of the minutemen.

  
  

• The British captured all of the colonists’ ammunition.

  
  

• The minutemen retreated from the fierce fighting of the British.

  
  

• The minutemen went into hiding after British troops arrived.

  
  

In 1765, Britain’s Parliament passed a tax on all colonial newspapers, pamphlets, and other papers. What was this act called?

• the Declaratory Act

  
  

• the Stamp Act

  
  

• the Sugar Act

  
  

• the Townshend Acts

  
  

Why did the Stamp Act Congress meet in 1765?

• to form a new government for the colonies

  
  

• to approve the taxes imposed by Parliament

  
  

• to discuss how to respond to the new taxes

  
  

• to agree not to import British goods

  
  

Which of the following best explains why Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766?

• Parliament agreed with the American colonists that the act was unfair.

  
  

• Colonial legislators were threatening to impose their own taxes.

  
  

• Colonists’ boycotts of British goods were hurting British trade.

  
  

• The British passed the Declaratory Act, which replaced it with a heavier tax.

  
  

American colonists were forced to let British soldiers stay in their homes. This was one of several issues that led to

• the passage of the Declaratory Act.

  
  

• the Boston Massacre.

  
  

• the Non-Importation Agreement.

  
  

• the Stamp Act

  
  

Which tactic did Charles Townshend use to increase British control of the American colonies?

• He established new trade measures and prohibitions.

  
  

• He formed new peace treaties with Indigenous tribes.

  
  

• He drew a new boundary between French and English colonies.

  
  

• He created new taxes on the American colonists to raise revenue.

  
  

William Pitt the Elder thought that the British government

• was right to pass the Townshend Acts.

  
  

• should make the colonies pay for wars.

  
  

• was taxing the colonies too harshly.

  
  

• should periodically raise colonial taxes.