Q 01/05

Many men who raided the ships at the Boston Tea Party dressed as warriors of which Native American nation?

A) Cherokee

B) Wampanoag

C) Mohawk

D) Seminole

Answer · why

C) Mohawk

Mohawk dress was a symbol as much as a mask: the raiders were signalling that they saw themselves as Americans rather than British subjects.

Q 02/05

The tea thrown into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party had been grown in which country?

A) India

B) China

C) Ceylon

D) Japan

Answer · why

B) China

China supplied every chest: the cargo was mostly cheap black tea, with some finer leaf from the province of Anhui.

Q 03/05

What did the Tea Act of 1773, the law that provoked the Boston Tea Party, do to the price of legal tea?

A) Lowered it

B) Doubled it

C) Tripled it

D) Froze it

Answer · why

A) Lowered it

Lowered it: the act let the tea's owners undercut even the smugglers. Protesters objected to the tax tucked inside the bargain and to the monopoly, no...

Q 04/05

Which Indian leader showed the Viceroy some duty-free salt in 1931 and joked that it recalled the Boston Tea Party?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Subhas Chandra Bose

C) Vallabhbhai Patel

D) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer · why

D) Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi had just led a mass campaign against Britain's salt tax, and a British newspaper had already likened one of his protests to the Boston ...

Q 05/05

After the Boston Tea Party, many Americans shunned tea as unpatriotic and made which hot drink their favorite instead?

A) Cocoa

B) Coffee

C) Hot cider

D) Hot toddy

Answer · why

B) Coffee

Coffee became the patriotic cup as tea drinking fell away during and after the Revolution, and one future president told his wife in 1774 that he was ...