Word Meanings
Name this Face
Al About Taxes!!!
Tea and the Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party, The Bunker Hill Battle and More
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Parliament is the place where ______________ are made.
A. cakes
B. laws
B. Laws
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A. King George III
B. King Charles III
A. King George III
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Great Britain wanted American colonists to pay taxes because ________________________________.
A. Great Britain helped America win in the French-Indian War
B. Great Britain didn't like America
A. Great Britain helped America win in the French-Indian War
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The Townshend Acts made colonists pay tax on paper, wool and ______________________.
A. Tea
B. Coffee
A. Tea
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After the Boston Massacre, Parliament cancelled ALL taxes.
A. True
B. False
B. False
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What does the word tariff mean?
A. Tax
B. A tool
A. Tax
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A. Frederick Douglas
B. Crispus Attucks
B. Crispus Attucks
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The ____________________ collects taxes from people, to pay for things needed like schools and bridges.
A. Tax company
B. Government
B. Government
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The Daughters of Liberty was a group of women who ______________________.
A. Played cards
B. Made their own tea
B. Made their own tea
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In the Committee of Correspondence, colonists shared news with one another by ___________________ messages.
A. e-mailing
B. Writing
B. Writing
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If you boycott a business, you ________________________________________.
A. Buy their products
B. DO NOT BUY their products
B. DO NOT BUY their products
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A. Patrick Henry
B. Samuel Adams
B. Samuel Adams
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The Stamp act made colonists pay tax on ______________________.
A. Coffee
B. Newspapers
B. Newspapers
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The Boston Massacre started when a British soldier hit Hugh white on the __________________ with his musket.
A. arm
B. head
B. head
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In the Boston Tea Party, American colonists ____________________________.
A. Celebrated with a variety of different teas
B. Threw boxes of tea out into the Boston Harbor
B. Threw boxes of tea out into the Boston Harbor
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A massacre is the killing of ____________________.
A. People who have weapons and can defend themselves.
B. People who have no weapons and can't defend themselves.
B. People who have no weapons and can't defend themselves.
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A. King George III
B. George Washington
B. George Washington
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Americans were mad and felt Parliament had no right to tax them because they never voted for Parliament. This is called ___________________________.
A. Taxation without representation
B. Taxation without presentation
A. Taxation without representation
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The judge in the Boston Massacre Court Case found the British soldiers _______________________.
A. Not Guilty
B. Guilty
A. Not guilty
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A person who supported America and DID NOT LIKE British rule, was called a _______________________.
A. Loyalist
B. Patriot
B. Patriot
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Minutemen responded to a request to fight very ___________________________.
A. Slowly
B. Fast
B. Fast
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A. William Dawes
B. Paul Revere
B. Paul Revere
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The Sons of Liberty was a group that protested taxes. How did they protest?
A. They threatened tax collectors
B. They sent reminders to tax collectors
A. They threatened tax collectors
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In the Boston Massacre, American colonists ___________________ and then British soldiers ________________________.
A. fired their weapons, fired their weapons
B. threw snowballs, fired their weapons
B. threw snowballs, fired their weapons
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Which country won the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A. Great Britain
B. America
A. Great Britain