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Boston Tea Party & Intolerable Acts

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which describes the Tea Act?

a)

a tax on paper goods (newspapers, playing cards, etc.)

b)

a tax on tea

c)

forced the American colonies to only buy tea from Enland

2.

Who organized the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

all American colonists

c)

British soldiers

d)

Loyalists

3.

Why did the Sons of Liberty organize the Boston Tea Party?

a)

they didn't like how English tea tasted

b)

to protest unfair British taxes

c)

to help British soldiers unload tea from a British ship

4.

Which describes the Boston Tea Party?

a)

a tax on British tea in the Boston colonies

b)

a party that the colonists organized for British solidiers where they had tea together

c)

when the Sons of Liberty dumbed tea from a British ship into the Boston Harbor

5.

Which event happened AFTER the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Intolerable Acts

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Tea Act

6.

Which describes the Intolerable Acts?

a)

closed the Boston Harbor & forced the Boston colonies to pay for the dumped tea from the Boston Tea Party

b)

forced the colonists to pay taxes on paper goods, paint, and tea

c)

a law that stated England would no longer tax the American colonies

7.

Which event is being shown?

a)

Tea Act

b)

Boston Tea Party

c)

Intolerable Acts

8.

Which event led to the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Intolerable Acts

c)

Tea Act