American Revolution Review

The Tea Act was an act that required the colonists to…

• buy and drink tea every day.

• buy tea from the British East India Company.

• buy tea from the colonial tea companies.

• pay a tax on all items except tea.

What act punished the colony of Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

The Committees of Correspondence were responsible for…

• organizing the colonial troops for war.

• disguising themselves as Native Americans and dumping 340 chests of tea into Boston’s Harbor.

• talking with other towns and colonies to share ideas on how to challenge British laws.

• preventing the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The British made the colonists pay a tax on all paper that they bought. This tax was created by what act?

• Paper Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Wood Act

What happened during the Boston Massacre?

• British soldiers killed five colonists

• The colonists killed five British Soldiers

• The city of Boston was bombed by the British

• A peace agreement was signed between the colonists and the British

In response to the Tea Act, the Sons of Liberty had what is now called the “Boston Tea Party.” What did they do at this “party?”

• Threw British tea into the Boston Harbor

• Celebrated by drinking their own tea

• Poured tea all over the tax collectors

• Invited British soldiers over for tea

He was an outspoken (vocal) leader of the Sons of Liberty.

• Captain Preston

• Samuel Adams

• John Locke

• King Phillip

This act required colonists to provide food and housing (shelter) to the British soldiers.

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

Patriots often chanted “No taxation without representation.” This means the colonists were angry about…

• high tariffs.

• not having a voice in their government.

• not being allowed to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• housing British soldiers.

One way the colonists protested the British taxes was by…

• refusing to work.

• tarring and feathering tax collectors.

• drinking French tea.

• moving to Canada.