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Which statement is true about the Boston Tea Party?
a) The Boston Tea Party celebrated the arrival in the colonies of a new type of tea from England.
b) Colonists boarded a British ship in the night. They threw chests of tea into the sea.
c) Patriots convinced Native Americans to destroy a British ship and its cargo of tea.
d) The colonists were happy because Great Britain had repealed the tea tax.
What set of laws placed new taxes on the colonists after the repeal of the Stamp Act?
a) The Declaration of Independence
b) The First Continental Congress
c) The Townshend Acts
d) The Sons of Liberty
Why did Great Britain repeal the Stamp Act?
a) France invaded and conquered Great Britain.
b) Great Britain earned enough money from the tax to repay its war debts.
c) The Stamp Act had caused Native American revolts.
d) The colonists were threatening stamp agents and boycotting British goods.
Which statement BEST explains why the colonists were angry about the Stamp Act?
a) The Stamp Act was unfair because the colonists had no representation in Parliament.
b) The Stamp Act taxed goods the colonists produced in America.
c) The Stamp Act should also apply to Native Americans.
d) The Stamp Act taxed the colonists’ land.
Treaty of Paris
a) the agreement that formally ended the Revolutionary War
b) to give food and shelter to others
c) to cancel
d) soldiers who are paid to fight for another country
independence
a) freedom from rule by others
b) soldiers who are paid to fight for another country
c) to cancel
d) to give food and shelter to others
mercenary
a) soldiers who are paid to fight for another country
b) to cancel
c) to give food and shelter to others
d) the agreement that formally ended the Revolutionary War
repeal
a) to cancel
b) to give food and shelter to others
c) freedom from rule by others
d) soldiers who are paid to fight for another country
quarter
a) to give food and shelter to others
b) the agreement that formally ended the Revolutionary War
c) freedom from rule by others
d) soldiers who are paid to fight for another country
Parliament passed a series of harsh laws in response to the Boston Tea Party. What name did the colonists give to those laws?
a) Common Sense
b) The Intolerable Acts
c) The Townshend Acts
d) The Olive Branch Petition
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