The Boston Tea Party Quiz

During the Boston Tea Party, American colonists dumped chests full of tea into the water to protest ____.

• the lack of tea being shipped to America

• the use of slaves to harvest tea

• a British tax on tea

• the use of pesticides in their tea

The Boston Tea Party took place in ____.

• 1973

• 1776

• 1773

• 1770

During the Boston Tea Party, angry colonists dressed up as ____ before sneaking on the ships.

• British soldiers

• Indians

• cowboys

• Red Coats

The Boston Tea Party fueled the tension that had already begun between Britain and America. This growing tension is what ultimately led to ____.

• the Hundred Years' War

• the Revolutionary War

• World War II

• the Civil War

The group of angry colonists that dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor called themselves the ____.

• Sons of Massachusetts

• Sons of Boston

• Sons of Liberty

• Sons of Britain