Chapter 4 – The American Revolution Vocabulary Terms

Who was the Boston leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission?

• Samuel Adams

• John Hancock

• Paul Revere

• Benjamin Franklin

What was the method of communication between towns and colonies about British laws?

• Telegraph

• Committees of Correspondence

• Newspapers

• Town Criers

What required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items?

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Intolerable Acts

Who was the female colonist writer who urged a boycott of British goods and helped organize the Committees of Correspondence?

• Abigail Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Phillis Wheatley

• Martha Washington

The shooting by British soldiers that killed five colonists was called:

• The Boston Massacre

• The Lexington Incident

• The Concord Clash

• The Bunker Hill Battle

The act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea to the colonists was known as:

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Tea Act

• The Intolerable Acts

The protest in which colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped 340 tea chests from British ships into Boston Harbor is known as:

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Stamp Act Riots

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Massacre

The laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party were called:

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Quartering Act

What was one of the Intolerable Acts that required colonists to provide room in their homes for British soldiers?

• The Stamp Act

• The Quartering Act

• The Tea Act

• The Townshend Acts

The gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America was known as:

• The First Continental Congress

• The Stamp Act Congress

• The Albany Congress

• The First Congress