MCQs on Boston Tea Party Anniversary (December 16) January 8, 2026August 31, 2024 by u930973931_answers 20 min Score: 0 Attempted: 0/20 Subscribe 1. What event is commemorated on December 16? (A) The signing of the Declaration of Independence (B) The Boston Massacre (C) The Boston Tea Party (D) The Battle of Bunker Hill 2. In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place? (A) 1770 (B) 1775 (C) 1773 (D) 1781 3. The Boston Tea Party was a protest against which British act? (A) The Tea Act (B) The Sugar Act (C) The Townshend Acts (D) The Stamp Act 4. Which group was responsible for the Boston Tea Party? (A) The Daughters of Liberty (B) The Sons of Liberty (C) The Patriots (D) The Continental Congress 5. What was the primary reason for the Boston Tea Party? (A) Opposition to British taxes (B) Discontent with colonial governance (C) Protests against military occupation (D) Resistance to British trade restrictions 6. How did the participants of the Boston Tea Party protest? (A) They marched to the British Parliament (B) They organized a boycott (C) They wrote a petition to the King (D) They destroyed a shipment of tea 7. Where did the Boston Tea Party occur? (A) Boston Harbor (B) Lexington Green (C) Concord Bridge (D) Boston Common 8. How many chests of tea were thrown into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party? (A) 10 (B) 92 (C) 45 (D) 30 9. Who was the British Prime Minister during the Boston Tea Party? (A) Lord North (B) George Grenville (C) William Pitt (D) Charles Townshend 10. What was the immediate British response to the Boston Tea Party? (A) The Declaratory Act (B) The Quartering Act (C) The Intolerable Acts (D) The Boston Port Act 11. Which of the following was a direct consequence of the Boston Tea Party? (A) The repeal of the Tea Act (B) The beginning of the American Revolutionary War (C) The passage of the Intolerable Acts (D) The signing of the Treaty of Paris 12. Who was the prominent leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston? (A) Benjamin Franklin (B) John Hancock (C) Paul Revere (D) Samuel Adams 13. What was the main goal of the Tea Act of 1773? (A) To reduce the price of tea (B) To increase colonial trade (C) To support the British East India Company (D) To eliminate colonial taxes 14. Which ship was NOT involved in the Boston Tea Party? (A) The Liberty (B) The Eleanor (C) The Beaver (D) The Dartmouth 15. The Boston Tea Party was part of a larger movement against what type of legislation? (A) Religious (B) Social (C) Military (D) Economic 16. What was the British East India Company’s role in the Boston Tea Party? (A) They were the owners of the tea destroyed (B) They organized the protest (C) They arrested the protesters (D) They drafted the Tea Act 17. Which colony was the center of the Boston Tea Party? (A) Massachusetts (B) New York (C) Virginia (D) Pennsylvania 18. The destruction of tea during the Boston Tea Party was a protest against which type of taxation? (A) Direct tax (B) Export tax (C) Import tax (D) Indirect tax 19. What was the name of the British act that punished Boston for the Tea Party? (A) The Revenue Act (B) The Coercive Acts (C) The Navigation Act (D) The Sugar Act 20. How did the Tea Act affect colonial merchants? (A) It allowed them to buy tea at a reduced price (B) It gave them exclusive trading rights (C) It removed taxes on colonial tea (D) It undercut their tea sales by allowing cheaper British tea