The Road to the
Revolution Booklet
Study Guide
Answers to Events N-Q
Packet Pages 7-8
N. Tea Act
What did the Tea Act do?
Allowed the East India Tea Company to sell its tea directly to the
colonists
What company was nearly bankrupt?
East India Tea Company
What were the Boston merchants afraid of?
A monopoly
Who led the Sons of Liberty?
Sam Adams
How many cups of tea were dumped into the harbor?
24 million cups
What is the current market value of the tea?
1 million dollars
O. Intolerable Acts
What were they called by the British?
Coercive Acts
What colony was put under military control?
Massachusetts
What prior act was brought back?
Quartering Act
Where did the First Continental Congress meet?
Philadelphia
Who did they pledge their allegiance to?
The King
P. New England Restraining Act
What did it do?
Forbids New England to trade with any country except
Britain and forbids use of North Atlantic fishing banks.
What did Patrick Henry say about it?
“Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”
List 3 colonies that were prohibited to fish.
NJ, PA, MD, VA, and SC
Q. Lexington and Concord
What was the object of the British march?
To confiscate colonial militia’s supply of guns and ammunition stored
at Concord. To arrest John Hancock and Sam Adams.
Who warned the countryside that the British were coming?
Paul Revere, Dr. Sam Prescott, William Dawes
Why was American resistance at Lexington and Concord
called the “shot heard round the world?”
Big news! Citizens rebelling against their own government, start of the
American Revolution
Where did it occur?
Lexington first (and then Concord), Massachusetts