Acts/ Taxes Quiz

Which acts were imposed to punish the colonists for resisting British authority?

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Coercive Act

• Quartering Act

Which act was the first set of taxes imposed on the colonists and really only affected merchants?

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Townshend Act

Which act taxed all printed items?

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

The tea act:

• Raised the tax on tea

• Removed the tax on tea

• Lowered the tax on tea

• Made tea unaffordable

The tea act forced the colonists to only buy tea from which company:

• British Tea Company

• 13 Colonies Tea

• British East India Company

• None of the above

Which acts taxed things like paper, tea, and glass?

• Coercive acts

• Intolerable acts

• Quartering acts

• Townshend acts

The Intolerable Acts punished mainly which colony?

• Virginia

• Massachusetts

• Delaware

• Pennsylvania

Which incident was the leading cause of the British imposing the Coercive Acts?

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Albany plan

• French and Indian War

Which act allowed soldiers to stay in the homes of colonists’?

• Sugar act

• Townshend act

• Coercive act

• Quartering act

How many colonists were killed in the Boston Massacre?

• 13

• 11

• 3

• 5