T/F: Most of the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were found not guilty of the crime.
What is True: the two who actually killed were branded on the hand and the rest were found not guilty. Josiah Quincy and John Adams defended the soldiers.
100
Which act was a tax on sugar and molasses?
a. Townshend Act
b. Sugar Act
c. Stamp Act
d. Tea Act
e. Intolerable Act
What is b. Sugar Act (1764)-first initiated to help Britain pay for their recent war.
100
What was the result of the Stamp Act?
a. protests and boycott of British goods
b. tensions were high, leading to Boston Massacre
c. boycott and refusal to obey
d. Revolution
e. Boston Tea Party
What is c. boycott and refusal to obey
100
Who used propaganda to turn the colonists against the British?
a. Samuel Adams
b. Paul Revere
c. George Washington
d. Both a or b
What is d. Both a or b
100
T/F: England was in debt from previous wars?
What is True-The French and Indian War
200
How many people were killed due to the Boston Massacre?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 10
d. 1
What is b. 5
200
Which act was a tax on paper, glass, lead, paint, and tea?
a. Townshend Act
b. Sugar Act
c. Stamp Act
d. Tea Act
e. Intolerable Act
What is a. Townshend Act (1767)-duties placed on more items and used tax collectors to search for smuggled goods.
200
What was the result of the Tea Act?
a. protests and boycott of British goods
b. tensions were high, leading to Boston Massacre
c. boycott and refusal to obey
d. Revolution
e. Boston Tea Party
What is e. Boston Tea Party
200
The ____________ , which was what the British soldiers were commonly called, were a threat to the colonists.
What is Redcoats
200
What were the Intolerable Acts and why were they passed?
What is:
The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The British closed the Harbor, cancelled their charter, soldiers were sent to England for trails, and the colonists were forced to house soldiers.
300
Describe the Boston Tea Party
What is:
The Boston Tea Party was when a group of colonists, who disguised themselves as Indians, secretly went onto three ships in the night. They dumped 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the tea tax or Tea Act.
300
Which Act was a tax only on tea?
a. Townshend Act
b. Sugar Act
c. Stamp Act
d. Tea Act
e. Intolerable Act
What is d. Tea Act (1773) allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
300
What was the result of the Intolerable Act?
a. protests and boycott of British goods
b. tensions were high, leading to Boston Massacre
c. boycott and refusal to obey
d. Revolution
e. Boston Tea Party
What is d. Revolution
300
T/F: Even though in America, the colonist still were represented in Britain through a representative?
What is False-they had no representative "no taxation without representation".
300
T/F: The Townshend Act did get repealed.
What is True, but there still remained a tax on Tea (so not really=)
400
Describe the Boston Massacre
What is:
The Boston Massacre was when a crowd of colonists in Boston gathered around a soldier who had struck a colonist during a fight. Troops arrived and so did more of the crowd. Tensions and taunts were high. Some of the people threw snowballs. In reaction, the soldiers fired and killed 3 people-two later died.
400
Which Act was a tax on paper products?
a. Townshend Act
b. Sugar Act
c. Stamp Act
d. Tea Act
e. Intolerable Act
What is c. Stamp Act (1765)-colonists needed to pay for a stamp or seal when they bought paper items.
400
What was the result of the Sugar Act?
a. protests and boycott of British goods
b. tensions were high, leading to Boston Massacre
c. boycott and refusal to obey
d. Revolution
e. Boston Tea Party
What is
a. protests and boycott of British goods
400
Which was the first Act imposed on the colonists?
What is The Sugar Act
400
Define Quarter
What is quarter means that the colonists had to allow soldiers in to sleep, eat, and stay if they needed/wanted, in the colonists homes.
500
What was the reaction by the English as a result of the Boston Tea Party?
What is The Intolerable Acts; which closed the Harbor, canceled the charter, soldiers sent to England for trail, and colonist had to quarter soldiers.
500
Which Act closed the harbor, cancelled charters, no soldiers arrested, and citizens had to house soldiers?
a. Townshend Act
b. Sugar Act
c. Stamp Act
d. Tea Act
e. Intolerable Act
What is e. Intolerable Act (1774)-in reaction to the Boston Tea Party more rules were imposed on the colonists.
500
What was the result of the Townshend Act?
a. protests and boycott of British goods
b. tensions were high, leading to Boston Massacre
c. boycott and refusal to obey
d. Revolution
e. Boston Tea Party
What is b. tensions were high, leading to Boston Massacre
500
The Intolerable Acts was the name given to the Act by the colonist, but what were the Acts originally called by the British who imposed them?
What is: The Coercive Acts
500
What is the best way for a historian to accurately determine the truth of a story when the two sides have opposing ideas about what occurred?
What is:
The historian should look at the commonalities, or what both sides of the story have in common or say did happen.