- 1. Where did the Boston Tea Party occur?
A) New York City
B) Boston Harbor
C) Philadelphia
D) Charleston
- 2. Which group protested the British tea tax by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor?
A) Patriots
B) Loyalists
C) Sons of Liberty
D) Daughters of Liberty
- 3. Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Boston Tea Party?
A) William Pitt the Younger
B) Lord North
C) George Grenville
D) Sir Robert Walpole
- 4. How many chests of tea were destroyed during the Boston Tea Party?
A) 177
B) 342
C) 235
D) 419
- 5. Which Act of Parliament passed by the British government led to the Boston Tea Party?
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Townshend Acts
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea Act
- 6. Who is often credited with planning and leading the Boston Tea Party?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) George Washington
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
- 7. Which European power supported the American colonies during the American Revolution?
A) Spain
B) Prussia
C) Russia
D) France
- 8. In response to the Boston Tea Party, what did Parliament do to punish Massachusetts?
A) Offered economic incentives
B) Passed the Coercive Acts
C) Declared war
D) Ignored the incident
- 9. Which was the first of the Intolerable Acts to go into effect?
A) Massachusetts Government Act
B) Quartering Act
C) Quebec Act
D) Boston Port Act
- 10. Who was the British general tasked with enforcing the Coercive Acts in Massachusetts?
A) Thomas Gage
B) John Burgoyne
C) William Howe
D) Benedict Arnold
- 11. What was the name of the British ship that had tea dumped into the Boston Harbor?
A) Bounty
B) Mayflower
C) Dartmouth
D) Endeavour
- 12. Which political slogan emerged following the Boston Tea Party that reflected the colonists' discontent with British taxes?
A) Give me liberty or give me death
B) No taxation without representation
C) Don't tread on me
D) Join, or die
- 13. Who warned the patriots that the British were coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord?
A) John Hancock
B) Samuel Adams
C) Paul Revere
D) Thomas Paine
- 14. What was the outcome for the tea thrown into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party?
A) Recovered by divers
B) Sold at auction
C) Returned to Britain
D) Destroyed
- 15. Which political figure defended the actions of the Boston Tea Party in London?
A) Edmund Burke
B) George Washington
C) Thomas Paine
D) Benjamin Franklin
- 16. What was the name of the meeting that followed the Boston Tea Party and united the colonies against Britain?
A) Second Continental Congress
B) Albany Congress
C) First Continental Congress
D) Philadelphia Convention
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