Tea Act & Colonial Reactions
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company special rights to sell tea in the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
This group organized the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
These committees helped colonies do this quickly.
What is communicate?
Minutemen were known for being ready to fight in this amount of time.
What is a minute?
Colonists said this famous slogan because they had no voice in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Colonists dumped this many chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is 342?
One Intolerable Act closed this important harbor.
What is Boston Harbor?
The Committees of Correspondence spread news about these actions.
What are British actions or British laws?
The first battles of the Revolution took place in these two towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Even though the Tea Act made tea cheaper, colonists still refused to buy it. This type of protest is called this.
What is a boycott?
The Boston Tea Party was an example of this type of protest, where people break a law to stand up for what they believe is unfair.
What is civil disobedience?
This act forced colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
These committees helped unify the colonies and prepare them for this future event.
What is the American Revolution?
British troops marched to Concord to seize these.
What are colonial weapons?
Colonists believed the Tea Act was a “trick” to make them accept this British power.
What is the right to tax the colonies?
These were the names of the three ships involved in the Tea Party.
What are the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor?
The Intolerable Acts united the colonies and led to this major meeting in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This colony, home of Samuel Adams, was especially active in forming committees.
What is Massachusetts?
This famous phrase described the first shot of the Revolution.
What is “the shot heard ’round the world”?
This group of women encouraged colonists to avoid British tea and even made “Liberty Tea.”
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This Massachusetts governor insisted the tea ships unload their cargo, helping spark the Tea Party.
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
One Intolerable Act canceled this document, taking away Massachusetts’s right to self‑government.
What is the Massachusetts charter?
Committees of Correspondence were an early example of colonies working together, similar to this later group formed in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This poet wrote the phrase “the shot heard ’round the world.”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?