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The Boston Massacre / Boston Tea Party Quiz

1. What was the nickname of British soldiers because of their bright red jackets?
a. Loyalists
b. Patriots
c. Redcoats
d. Redjackets

2. Which of the following is true about the Boston Massacre?
a. Colonists surrounded the British, shouted at them, and threw snowballs at them
b. British soldiers fire into the crowd
c. 5 people were killed
d. All of the above

3. What happened to the British soldiers who fired the shots?
a. They got away with it
b. They were arrested and charged with murder
c. They were denied a free trial
d. They were killed

4. What was the colonists view of the tea act?
a. They were upset with it but paid the tea tax anyway
b. They thought it was another attempt by parliament to interfere in the economic
life of the colonists
c. They felt it was fair for the British to tax them again
d. The colonists made profit off of the tax

5. What happened during the Boston Tea Party?
a. The British threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor
b. The colonists and the British sat around a table and drank tea
c. Native Americans threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor
d. Colonists disguised as Native Americans threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston
harbor

6. What was the British response to the Boston Tea Party?
a. They raised the taxes even more
b. They took the colonists to court
c. They were angered because they lost profit of their tea
d. They ignored it

7. Which of the following was NOT apart of the Intolerable Acts?
a. Closed the port in Boston until the colonists paid for the tea
b. Allowed British officers to have troops in private dwellings
c. The British took away colonial land
d. They altered the Massachusetts charter to ban town meetings

8. What was a purpose of the First Continental Congress?
a. Become unified and uphold colonists rights
b. Set up trade with Britain
c. Get more land in the colonies
d. To drop chests of tea into Boston harbor

9. What did the provincial congress in Massachusetts have the power to do?
a. Claim land anywhere
b. Tax the British
c. Collect taxes and raise an army
d. Produce weapons for the colonists

10. What did the colonists believe about their fight against the British?
a. The colonists would win
b. The British would win
c. The colonists would a larger army
d. A show of force would make the British back down