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Sugar, Stamps & Struggles
Townshend, Taxes & Terror
The Boston Players
Continental Congress
Kingly Comebacks & Other Fun Trivia
100

What item was taxed by the Sugar Act?

Molasses

100

How did Boston resisters respond to the Tea Act, once the tea was shipped into their harbor?

They held the "Boston Tea Party" - snuck on to the ships at night and dumped 18,000 pounds of it into the harbor

100

Boston was in what colony?

Massachusetts

100

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

How many American colonies were there at the time of the Revolution?

100

Who was the King of England during the pre-Revolution and Revolutionary Eras?

George III

200

True or False: The Stamp Act required all newspapers to be printed on taxed, stamped paper

True

200
Name three items taxed by the Townshend Acts.

Glass, lead, paper, paint, tea

200

What man was a silversmith and delivered messages to Continental Congress?

Paul Revere

200

Where did Continental Congress meet?

Philadelphia

200
How did the King of England respond to the Americans' request to remove the Intolerable Acts?

He refused to do so.

300

Name two items that the Stamp Act required taxed stamps on.

Paper for all important documents, playing cards, dice

300

What was the Tea Act, and why was it passed?

A removal of tea tax, because the British East India Company couldn't sell it's tea as the colonists were boycotting it
300

What man brewed beer and wrote powerful arguments against the various Acts?

Sam Adams

300

When the First Continental Congress met, how many of the colonies sent representatives?

A. 7 

B. 10

C. 12

C. 12 (all except Georgia)

300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!

What is the name of England's legislative group (the other part of their government, besides the king)

400

What was the name of the resistance group who formed in Boston as a result of the Stamp Act?

The Sons of Liberty

400

Why did colonists hate the Tea Act?

They had learned to grow/sell their own, and the new, cheap tea would be hard to compete with
400

Who was a wealthy Boston businessman that spoke out against the various Acts?

John Hancock

400

What did the First Continental Congress request that England do?

Overturn (remove) the Intolerable Acts

400

What musical instrument does Thomas Jefferson play? (Think awesome music videos)

The violin

500

What was tarring and feathering?

Pouring boiling tar on someone and then dumping feathers on them

500

Name the three worst Intolerable Acts and why they were passed.

- Closing the port of Boston

- Troops must be housed/fed by Boston citizens

- Martial Law in Boston

- Due to the Boston Tea Party

500

What was the name of the British general who ran Boston as part of the Intolerable Acts?

Thomas Gage

500

How long was the First Continental Congress going to wait for England to respond to their requests?

One year

500

What musical instrument does Benjamin Franklin NOT play, in spite of what awesome music videos suggest?

The electric guitar