The Intolerable Acts

What was Britian trying to get the colonists to do?

• a. Pay taxes

• b. Follow British regulations

• all of the above

What had the colonists done to resist? (fight back/show they disagree)  Select all that apply.

• a. Tarring and feathering tax collectors

• b. writing petitions (a document that protests something you sign your name to)

• c. Boycotting British goods.

• d. Accept the British laws

The British called these the "Cooercive Acts"  hoping to force the citzens into obedience.  What did the colonists call them?

• a. Revenge Acts

   

• b. Intolerable Acts

• c. Unforgiveable Acts

What city did many of these acts focus on?

• a. New York City

• b. Philadelphia

• c. Concord

• d. Boston

When Colonists later declared independence from Britian, they addressed (made them a part of) an important document named the"

• a. Bill of Rights

• b. United States Constitiution

• c. The Articles of Confederation

The British closed the Port of Boston and it was to remain closed until:

• a. The British felt like it was time to open it.

• b. The colonists paid for all of the tea they destroyed during the Boston Tea Party

• c. Indefinitly - not to open again.

The second of coercive acts prevented the colonists to meet together excepts for 1 time a year.

• True

• False

The third intolerable act allowed Customs officers and other British officials charged with crimes to be tried in Britian rather than in Massachussets.

• True

• False

This action by the British was called the

• a. Stamp Act

• b. Sugar Act

• c.  Quartering Act

General Thomas Gage (the British military leader in Boston) was also given the responsibility of being 

• a. the colonial governor of New York

• b. The head of the colonist militia

• c. the colonial governor of Massachussets