Boston Tea Party Identification

Match each description to the correct historical term related to the Boston Tea Party.

• 1766 law asserting Britain’s right to tax the colonies

• Mohawk

• Punitive laws passed to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party

• Declaratory Act

• Identity used by many colonists who disguised themselves as Native warriors during the tea protest

• Coercive Acts

• Britain’s lawmaking body that governed the colonies

• Parliament

• 1767 laws adding taxes on items like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

• Townshend Acts

Match each description to the correct term from the word bank.

• Night when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest

• Dartmouth

• What Britain had after the French and Indian War, leading to new taxes

• Parliamentary taxation

• The practice of Britain’s legislature placing taxes on the colonies

• Boston Tea Party

• Crime of betraying one’s government; what some British officials accused colonial leaders of

• debt

• First ship that reached Boston Harbor carrying tea in 1773

• treason

Match each act or policy to its effect on the colonies.

• Imposed duties on imported goods such as glass and tea

• Declaratory Act

• Closed Boston Harbor and limited self-government to punish protests

• Townshend Acts

• General policy of the British legislature raising revenue from colonists

• Coercive Acts

• Stated Britain could make laws and taxes for the colonies in all cases

• Parliamentary taxation

Match each clue about people and actions on the night of the Boston Tea Party.

• To protest taxation without colonial representation

• Action

• Many participants dressed as Mohawk warriors

• Disguises

• Boston Harbor

• Reason

• Colonists boarded ships and dumped chests of tea

• Location

Match each taxation term to the best description.

• Taxes created by the British legislature for the colonies

• Declaratory Act

• Money owed, especially after the French and Indian War

• Townshend Acts

• Britain’s legislative body

• Parliamentary taxation

• Claim that Britain had full authority to tax the colonies

• debt

• Placed import duties on goods like paper and paint

• Parliament

Match each ship or action to its description.

• Event where colonists dumped tea to protest taxes

• Coercive Acts

• Tea ship that arrived first at Boston in 1773

• treason

• Set of laws intended to punish Massachusetts after the protest

• Boston Tea Party

• Serious crime of betraying one’s government; charge threatened against leaders

• Dartmouth

Match each cause to its effect in the lead-up to the Boston Tea Party.

• Britain owed large sums after the French and Indian War

• War debt

• Britain imposed duties to raise revenue

• Coercive Acts

• Massachusetts was punished with closed harbor and stricter control

• Parliamentary taxation

• Tea was dumped in Boston Harbor

• Colonial protest

Match each British response to the Boston protests to what it attempted to accomplish.

• Declare the right to tax and rule the colonies

• Parliament

• Body that passed these laws

• Townshend Acts

• Raise money by taxing imports

• Coercive Acts

• Punish and control Massachusetts after the Tea Party

• Declaratory Act