QUESTION 16

The event in which British soldiers fired on an angry crowd in Boston, killing five people, came to be known as

a.
the Battle of Boston.

b.
the Boston Massacre.

c.
The Boston Tea Party.

d.
the Battle of Bunker Hill.

2 points

QUESTION 17

The motivation for the "Boston Tea Party" was

a.
to have a party, man, like Rock-and-Roll all night long, high as kites!

b.
to encourage the use of tea in the colonies, instead of cocoa and coffee.

c.
to help students study for their exams, by providing companionship and chemical aid.

d.
to protest the granting of a monopoly on the import of an important product to the British East India Company, and also to the imposition of taxes without local consent.

2 points

QUESTION 18

What happened at the Boston Tea Party?

a.
students pulled all-nighters, studying for their exams.

b.
Samuel Adams and John Hancock drank several barrels worth of expensive Ceylon tea, and plotted the Revolution.

c.
a group of Patriots got high and very speedy, from drinking a huge barrel of tea that they made from tea stored on ships in the Boston harbor.

d.
a group of men, dressed up as Mohawk Indians, boarded ship in the Boston harbor and dumped into the water all the tea stored on those ships.

e.
a group of Boston merchants drank several barrels worth of expensive Ceylon tea while planning to steal the tea stored on ships in the Boston harbor.

2 points

QUESTION 19

A barbarous practice used by angry mobs against British tax collectors and their supporters was called

a.
hazing and pledging.

b.
hanging and garroting.

c.
tarring and feathering.

d.
pranking and practical joking.

2 points

QUESTION 20

The author of a political essay entitled Common Sense, calling for the independence of the colonies, was

a.
Patrick Henry.

b.
Thomas Paine.

c.
James Madison.

d.
Thomas Jefferson.

e.
George Washington.