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Boston Tea Party - Quiz
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  • 1. When did the Boston Tea Party take place?
A) 1800
B) 1786
C) 1773
D) 1765
  • 2. Which act imposed taxes on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party?
A) Townshend Acts
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 3. Who organized the Boston Tea Party?
A) Redcoats
B) Sons of Liberty
C) Patriots
D) Daughters of Liberty
  • 4. How many chests of tea were thrown into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party?
A) 700
B) 177
C) 500
D) 342
  • 5. Which British East India Company ship had its tea dumped during the Boston Tea Party?
A) Golden Hind
B) Endeavour
C) Dartmouth
D) Mayflower
  • 6. What was the disguise worn by the participants of the Boston Tea Party?
A) French soldiers
B) Mohawk Indians
C) Native Americans
D) Spanish sailors
  • 7. Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Boston Tea Party?
A) William Pitt
B) George Grenville
C) Charles Townshend
D) Lord North
  • 8. What was the name of the tea party leader who issued the command to dump the tea?
A) John Adams
B) Samuel Adams
C) Paul Revere
D) Thomas Jefferson
  • 9. Which country was the colonizers' main trading partner during the time of the Boston Tea Party?
A) Netherlands
B) France
C) Great Britain
D) Spain
  • 10. How did the Sons of Liberty disguise themselves during the Boston Tea Party?
A) In plain clothes
B) As British soldiers
C) As Native Americans
D) In colonial militia uniforms
  • 11. What act did Parliament pass in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party?
A) The Townshend Acts
B) The Intolerable Acts
C) The Tea Act
D) The Declaration of Independence
  • 12. What did the Intolerable Acts end in Massachusetts?
A) The operation of the East India Company
B) Local self-government and closed Boston's commerce
C) Tea imports from China
D) All trade with Britain
  • 13. What was convened in Philadelphia as a response to the Intolerable Acts?
A) The First Continental Congress
B) The Second Continental Congress
C) A meeting of British officials
D) A colonial tea party
  • 14. What did the Continental Association culminate in?
A) Coordinated colonial resistance to British policies
B) An increase in tea imports
C) The immediate end of British rule
D) A celebration in Boston
  • 15. What was the first American tax revolt against British royal authority?
A) The Stamp Act Congress
B) The Boston Tea Party
C) The Pine Tree Riot in April 1772, New Hampshire
D) The Intolerable Acts
  • 16. Which company was granted a monopoly on the importation of tea by the English Parliament in 1698?
A) The Dutch East India Company
B) The British East Africa Company
C) The East India Company
D) The Hudson's Bay Company
  • 17. In what year did the English Parliament pass an act requiring colonists to import tea only from Great Britain?
A) 1773
B) 1698
C) 1721
D) 1767
  • 18. How much money per year did the East India Company lose to smugglers in Great Britain by the 1760s?
A) £800,000
B) £200,000
C) £600,000
D) £400,000
  • 19. What was the ad valorem tax rate on tea imported into Great Britain by the East India Company until 1767?
A) 10%
B) About 25%
C) 50%
D) 75%
  • 20. What group sometimes called themselves the Sons of Liberty during the opposition to the Tea Act?
A) Loyalists
B) Redcoats
C) Patriots
D) Whigs
  • 21. How many ships carrying East India Company tea were sent to the colonies in September and October 1773?
A) Ten
B) Seven
C) Nine
D) Five
  • 22. Which ship ran aground at Cape Cod in December 1773?
A) The Eleanor
B) The Beaver
C) The William
D) The Dartmouth
  • 23. Which city was NOT mentioned as a place where British firms resold tea to merchants in the colonies?
A) Philadelphia
B) Boston
C) New York
D) Charleston
  • 24. How much money did the Ron Paul 'Tea Party' money bomb raise in 2007?
A) $6.04 million
B) $10.00 million
C) $1.50 million
D) $3.00 million
  • 25. Who narrated the 1934 film about the Boston Tea Party?
A) John B. Kennedy
B) Edwin S. Porter
C) Eugene Nowland
D) Disney
  • 26. Which society holds a vial of actual tea-infused harbor water from 1773?
A) The Bostonian Society
B) The American Antiquarian Society
C) The Massachusetts Historical Society
D) The New England Historic Genealogical Society
  • 27. What did Mohandas Gandhi take from his shawl during a meeting with the Viceroy of India in 1930?
A) An Indian flag
B) A piece of tea
C) Duty-free salt
D) A copy of the Declaration of Independence
  • 28. Who were two of the three ships owned by during the Boston Tea Party?
A) John Rowe
B) Samuel Adams
C) Davison, Newman and Co.
D) The Rotch family
  • 29. Where was the mass meeting initially held before moving to a larger venue?
A) King's Chapel
B) Boston Common
C) Old South Meeting House
D) Faneuil Hall
  • 30. What was the estimated worth of the destroyed tea in 2025?
A) $750,000
B) $1,748,138
C) $2,000,000
D) $500,000
  • 31. What was the name of the wharf where the Tea Party took place?
A) Rowe's Wharf
B) Griffin's Wharf
C) Long Wharf
D) Faneuil Wharf
  • 32. Who convinced the tea consignees in Boston not to back down?
A) John Rowe
B) Governor Hutchinson
C) Joseph Rotch
D) Samuel Adams
  • 33. When did the term 'Boston Tea Party' first appear in print?
A) 1773
B) 1834
C) 1787
D) 1805
  • 34. Which city continued to import dutied British tea despite pressures?
A) Boston.
B) Philadelphia.
C) New York.
D) Charleston.
  • 35. Who made coffee for John Adams after he renounced tea?
A) A local merchant
B) Mrs. Huston
C) George Washington
D) Abigail Adams
  • 36. In which colony did Governor Hutchinson refuse to allow the Dartmouth to leave without paying duties?
A) Pennsylvania
B) Virginia
C) New York
D) Massachusetts
  • 37. Who was one of the few still-living participants of the Boston Tea Party, whose biography contributed to changing perceptions?
A) George Robert Twelves Hewes
B) Samuel Adams
C) Paul Revere
D) John Hancock
  • 38. What was Rear Admiral John Montagu's stance on intervening during the Boston Tea Party?
A) He ordered his troops to fire on the crowd.
B) He ignored the event completely.
C) He supported the actions of the colonists.
D) He could have prevented it but would have endangered many innocent lives by firing on the town.
  • 39. How many known tea chests from the original Boston Tea Party event are there?
A) Three
B) One
C) Two
D) Four
  • 40. Who was the captain of the ship Dartmouth during the Boston Tea Party?
A) Captain James Bruce
B) Captain James Hall
C) Captain Hezekiah Coffin
D) Captain John Rowe
  • 41. Who urged opposition to the landing of tea in Philadelphia, calling it 'the seeds of slavery'?
A) James Otis
B) Benjamin Rush
C) Patrick Henry
D) John Adams
  • 42. What was the name of the ship owned by John Rowe?
A) The Beaver
B) The Eleanor
C) The Dartmouth
D) The William
  • 43. What did Lord North say about the consequences of the Boston Tea Party?
A) We should ignore this incident.
B) "Whatever may be the consequence, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over."
C) This act shows our strength in controlling the colonies.
D) The colonists are justified in their actions.
  • 44. What type of media is 'Boston Tea Party' by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band?
A) A documentary
B) A song
C) A play
D) A film
  • 45. According to The National Archives of the UK, how many chests were destroyed during the Boston Tea Party?
A) 350
B) 342
C) 345
D) 340
  • 46. In which year was the play titled 'The Boston Tea Party' by Allan Albert released?
A) 1976
B) 1908
C) 1915
D) 1957
  • 47. Which film about the Boston Tea Party was produced by Disney?
A) The Boston Tea Party (1915)
B) A 1957 educational film excerpted from Johnny Tremain
C) The Boston Tea Party (1934)
D) The Boston Tea Party (1908)
  • 48. Which ship carried only 112 chests during the Boston Tea Party?
A) Eleanor
B) Mayflower
C) Dartmouth
D) Beaver
  • 49. What was the reported weight of the destroyed tea?
A) 100,000 pounds
B) 50,000 pounds
C) 92,616 pounds (42,010 kg)
D) 75,000 pounds
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