Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party - Quiz

1. When did the Boston Tea Party take place?

A) 1786
B) 1773
C) 1765
D) 1800

2. Which act imposed taxes on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party?

A) Sugar Act
B) Townshend Acts
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act

3. Who organized the Boston Tea Party?

A) Redcoats
B) Daughters of Liberty
C) Patriots
D) Sons of Liberty

4. How many chests of tea were thrown into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party?

A) 700
B) 500
C) 177
D) 342

5. Which British East India Company ship had its tea dumped during the Boston Tea Party?

A) Golden Hind
B) Dartmouth
C) Endeavour
D) Mayflower

6. What was the disguise worn by the participants of the Boston Tea Party?

A) French soldiers
B) Mohawk Indians
C) Spanish sailors
D) Native Americans

7. Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Boston Tea Party?

A) Lord North
B) George Grenville
C) William Pitt
D) Charles Townshend

8. What was the name of the tea party leader who issued the command to dump the tea?

A) Samuel Adams
B) John Adams
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Paul Revere

9. Which country was the colonizers' main trading partner during the time of the Boston Tea Party?

A) Netherlands
B) France
C) Spain
D) Great Britain

10. How did the Sons of Liberty disguise themselves during the Boston Tea Party?

A) In colonial militia uniforms
B) As British soldiers
C) As Native Americans
D) In plain clothes

11. What act did Parliament pass in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party?

A) The Tea Act
B) The Declaration of Independence
C) The Intolerable Acts
D) The Townshend Acts

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) All trade with Britain
D) Tea imports from China

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) An increase in tea imports
B) The immediate end of British rule
C) Coordinated colonial resistance to British policies
D) A celebration in Boston

15. What was the first American tax revolt against British royal authority?

A) The Pine Tree Riot in April 1772, New Hampshire
B) The Boston Tea Party
C) The Stamp Act Congress
D) The Intolerable Acts

16. Which company was granted a monopoly on the importation of tea by the English Parliament in 1698?

A) The Hudson's Bay Company
B) The British East Africa Company
C) The East India Company
D) The Dutch East India Company

17. In what year did the English Parliament pass an act requiring colonists to import tea only from Great Britain?

A) 1773
B) 1721
C) 1767
D) 1698

18. How much money per year did the East India Company lose to smugglers in Great Britain by the 1760s?

A) £200,000
B) £400,000
C) £600,000
D) £800,000

19. What was the ad valorem tax rate on tea imported into Great Britain by the East India Company until 1767?

A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) About 25%

20. What group sometimes called themselves the Sons of Liberty during the opposition to the Tea Act?

A) Redcoats
B) Whigs
C) Patriots
D) Loyalists

21. How many ships carrying East India Company tea were sent to the colonies in September and October 1773?

A) Nine
B) Five
C) Seven
D) Ten

22. Which ship ran aground at Cape Cod in December 1773?

A) The William
B) The Eleanor
C) The Beaver
D) The Dartmouth

23. Which city was NOT mentioned as a place where British firms resold tea to merchants in the colonies?

A) Boston
B) Charleston
C) New York
D) Philadelphia

24. How much money did the Ron Paul 'Tea Party' money bomb raise in 2007?

A) $3.00 million
B) $6.04 million
C) $10.00 million
D) $1.50 million

25. Who narrated the 1934 film about the Boston Tea Party?

A) Eugene Nowland
B) Disney
C) John B. Kennedy
D) Edwin S. Porter

26. Which society holds a vial of actual tea-infused harbor water from 1773?

A) The Bostonian Society
B) The Massachusetts Historical Society
C) The New England Historic Genealogical Society
D) The American Antiquarian Society

27. What did Mohandas Gandhi take from his shawl during a meeting with the Viceroy of India in 1930?

A) A piece of tea
B) An Indian flag
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) Samuel Adams
B) Davison, Newman and Co.
C) The Rotch family
D) John Rowe

29. Where was the mass meeting initially held before moving to a larger venue?

A) King's Chapel
B) Old South Meeting House
C) Boston Common
D) Faneuil Hall

30. What was the estimated worth of the destroyed tea in 2025?

A) $1,748,138
B) $750,000
C) $2,000,000
D) $500,000

31. What was the name of the wharf where the Tea Party took place?

A) Faneuil Wharf
B) Long Wharf
C) Rowe's Wharf
D) Griffin's Wharf

32. Who convinced the tea consignees in Boston not to back down?

A) Samuel Adams
B) Governor Hutchinson
C) Joseph Rotch
D) John Rowe

33. When did the term 'Boston Tea Party' first appear in print?

A) 1773
B) 1805
C) 1834
D) 1787

34. Which city continued to import dutied British tea despite pressures?

A) Philadelphia.
B) Boston.
C) New York.
D) Charleston.

35. Who made coffee for John Adams after he renounced tea?

A) Abigail Adams
B) George Washington
C) Mrs. Huston
D) A local merchant

36. In which colony did Governor Hutchinson refuse to allow the Dartmouth to leave without paying duties?

A) Massachusetts
B) Virginia
C) New York
D) Pennsylvania

37. Who was one of the few still-living participants of the Boston Tea Party, whose biography contributed to changing perceptions?

A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) George Robert Twelves Hewes
D) Paul Revere

38. What was Rear Admiral John Montagu's stance on intervening during the Boston Tea Party?

A) He could have prevented it but would have endangered many innocent lives by firing on the town.
B) He ignored the event completely.
C) He ordered his troops to fire on the crowd.
D) He supported the actions of the colonists.

39. How many known tea chests from the original Boston Tea Party event are there?

A) Two
B) Three
C) One
D) Four

40. Who was the captain of the ship Dartmouth during the Boston Tea Party?

A) Captain John Rowe
B) Captain James Bruce
C) Captain Hezekiah Coffin
D) Captain James Hall

41. Who urged opposition to the landing of tea in Philadelphia, calling it 'the seeds of slavery'?

A) Benjamin Rush
B) John Adams
C) James Otis
D) Patrick Henry

42. What was the name of the ship owned by John Rowe?

A) The Eleanor
B) The Beaver
C) The Dartmouth
D) The William

43. What did Lord North say about the consequences of the Boston Tea Party?

A) "Whatever may be the consequence, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over."
B) This act shows our strength in controlling the colonies.
C) The colonists are justified in their actions.
D) We should ignore this incident.

44. What type of media is 'Boston Tea Party' by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band?

A) A documentary
B) A film
C) A play
D) A song

45. According to The National Archives of the UK, how many chests were destroyed during the Boston Tea Party?

A) 350
B) 340
C) 342
D) 345

46. In which year was the play titled 'The Boston Tea Party' by Allan Albert released?

A) 1976
B) 1915
C) 1957
D) 1908

47. Which film about the Boston Tea Party was produced by Disney?

A) The Boston Tea Party (1934)
B) The Boston Tea Party (1908)
C) The Boston Tea Party (1915)
D) A 1957 educational film excerpted from Johnny Tremain

48. Which ship carried only 112 chests during the Boston Tea Party?

A) Eleanor
B) Beaver
C) Dartmouth
D) Mayflower

49. What was the reported weight of the destroyed tea?

A) 100,000 pounds
B) 92,616 pounds (42,010 kg)
C) 50,000 pounds
D) 75,000 pounds

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