Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party Quiz Review

Match the following people.

• Paul Revere

• African-American who was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre

• Crispus Attucks

• This patriot defended the British soldiers form the Boston Massacre saying the crowd of colonists acted as an unruly mob

• John Adams

• A Son of Liberty who created an engraving of the Boston Massacre that stirred up the colonists

Put the events of the Boston Massacre in order.

• Other British soldiers arrived; large crowd gathered around the soldiers

• Some Bostonians got into it with a British soldier; threw snowballs at him

• Someone threw something at British soldiers; soldier fired his musket

• A Bostonian attacked the soldier with a club; British soldiers fired and killed 5 people

What two nicknames did the colonists have for the British soldiers?

• Red Jackets

• Lobsterbacks

• Crab cakes

• Red Coats

What best describes why the colonists participated in the Boston Tea Party?

• they wanted to place blame on the Native Americans

• to prevent tea from being sold and taxed

• to make the king angry

Choose which options are true about the Boston Tea Party and which options are false.

Groups:

(a) True facts about the Boston Tea Party

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(b) False facts about the Boston Tea Party

• colonists dumped around 340 chests of tea into the harbor

• colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded three ships in the Boston harbor

• colonists burned the ships that were holding the tea

• Sons of Liberty did not let captains unload their tea

• the colonists were angry about a tax on coffee

• British soldiers helped dump tea into the Boston Harbor