NB Review - 1.2.2 Uniting the Colonists

Twenty colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre.

• True

• False

Which law passed by the British Parliament gave the East India Company a monopoly on a specific product?

• Stamp Act

• Navigation Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

What was the Boston Tea Party?

• A fancy party held by the British elites

• A new politcal group

• A protest by colonists in which they dumped British tea in Boston Harbor

• An event in which the colonies declared themselves independent from Britain

What was the nickname given to the Coercive Acts?

• Intolerable Acts

• Terrible Acts

• Terror Acts

• Impossible Acts

How did the colonists who threw tea overboard into Boston Harbor disguise themselves?

• as French pirates
• as British soldiers
• as Native Americans
• as British sailors

To punish colonists for the "tea party," Parliament passed a law closing Boston harbor.

• true

• false

What act taxed almost all printed materials in the colonies?

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

This did not allow the colonists to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains

• The Sugar Act

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Currency Act

• The Quartering Act

This ACT put a tax on products such as paper, dice, playing cards, etc.

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

This ACT required colonists to give British soldiers a place to live, food, water, etc

• The Declaratory Act

• The Quartering Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Tea Act