6.2 Comprehension Questions
1) Why did many colonists oppose the writs of assistance?
The writs of assistance went against their natural rights. Invasion of privacy.
2) Who were the Daughters of Liberty? What contribution did they make towards the protest
movement?
Female protest organization. They urged colonists to weave their own cloth and to use American
products rather than British products.
3)
In the fall of 1768, more than 1,000 additional British soldiers arrived in Boston under the
command of General ______________________________. With their arrival tensions soon
erupted into violence.
Thomas Gage
4) How many people were killed in the Boston Massacre?
Five people were killed
5) What is propaganda? How was this used wisely by Paul Revere?
Misleading or biased information used to promote a particular point of view. Paul Revere uses
propaganda when engraving the “Bloody Massacre” to promote the Colonists point of view. The
Boston Massacre engraving is successful because it makes many people in the other colonies (SC, VA)
believe that the British (strongest army in the world) abused their power against a group of innocent,
unarmed protestors. The engraving did not depict the behavior of the colonists or that role they
played in the events leading to the massacre.
6) Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts in 1770, however they still kept the ___TEA_________
tax to show that they had the right to tax the colonists.
7) Many colonists chose not to purchase tea from England. Instead they drank tea that was
smuggled from ____HOLLAND________________. As a result many British tea companies lost
money as their tea went unsold and rotted in ports.
8) Attempting to save British tea merchants, parliament passed the ______TEA ACT____________
in 1773.
9) This law gave one company, _____EAST INDIA COMPANY________________, the exclusive
right to sell tea in the colonies.
10) Although it lowered the price of tea for colonists, it also ___restricted the____________
colonists from acting as ____shippers or merchants of the valuable product______
11) By this time colonial leaders understood the importance of unity. Therefore, Sam Adams urged
many towns in Massachusetts to establish ____committees of correspondence_____ to
communicate with neighboring towns and colonial leaders.