Boston Tea Party signals start of American Revolution
- 1. Where did the Boston Tea Party occur?
A) Boston Harbor
B) Charleston
C) New York City
D) Philadelphia
- 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) Sir Robert Walpole
B) George Grenville
C) William Pitt the Younger
D) Lord North
- 4. How many chests of tea were destroyed during the Boston Tea Party?
A) 177
B) 342
C) 419
D) 235
- 5. Which Act of Parliament passed by the British government led to the Boston Tea Party?
A) Stamp Act
B) Tea Act
C) Townshend Acts
D) Intolerable Acts
- 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) Russia
B) France
C) Prussia
D) Spain
- 8. In response to the Boston Tea Party, what did Parliament do to punish Massachusetts?
A) Passed the Coercive Acts
B) Ignored the incident
C) Declared war
D) Offered economic incentives
- 9. Which was the first of the Intolerable Acts to go into effect?
A) Boston Port Act
B) Massachusetts Government Act
C) Quebec Act
D) Quartering Act
- 10. Who was the British general tasked with enforcing the Coercive Acts in Massachusetts?
A) William Howe
B) John Burgoyne
C) Thomas Gage
D) Benedict Arnold
- 11. What was the name of the British ship that had tea dumped into the Boston Harbor?
A) Endeavour
B) Dartmouth
C) Mayflower
D) Bounty
- 12. Which political slogan emerged following the Boston Tea Party that reflected the colonists' discontent with British taxes?
A) Join, or die
B) Give me liberty or give me death
C) Don't tread on me
D) No taxation without representation
- 13. Who warned the patriots that the British were coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord?
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
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) Returned to Britain
C) Sold at auction
D) Destroyed
- 15. Which political figure defended the actions of the Boston Tea Party in London?
A) George Washington
B) Edmund Burke
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) Albany Congress
B) First Continental Congress
C) Philadelphia Convention
D) Second Continental Congress
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