Colonial Acts and Vocabulary Quiz

Which act required colonists to place expensive tax stamps on legal documents, newspapers, calendars, and playing cards?

• Tea Act

• Declaratory Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Revenue Act

Which act declared that the colonies were dependent on the King and Parliament, and that colonial laws had no effect?

• Declaratory Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

Which act taxed items that colonists could not make themselves, such as glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea?

• Townshend Revenue Act

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

Which act forced certain colonists to house British troops without rent?

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Declaratory Act

Which act lowered the tax on tea but was seen by colonists as a trick to get them to pay taxes?

• Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Revenue Act

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

Which event involved colonists sneaking onto British ships and dumping hundreds of crates of tea into Boston Harbor?

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

Which acts were passed as punishment for Massachusetts’ rebellious activity, convincing colonists they could not take British rule anymore?

• Tea Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Revenue Act

• Intolerable Acts

What was an indentured servant?

• A person who farmed land they owned freely

• Men or women who worked in exchange for passage to the colonies

• Slaves who were forced to work on plantations for life

• Leaders who made laws in the colonies

Which term describes large farms that focused on growing cash crops?

• Charter

• Plantation

• Township

• Speculators

The “Middle Passage” refers to:

• The route from the colonies to Europe

• The trade route between Native Americans and settlers

• The route from Africa to the Americas

• The pathway settlers took moving west