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The Tea Act was designed to help which company?

ABritish East India Company
BHudson Bay Company
CTea Boilers Guild
DAmerican Tea Company


Which act taxed lead, paper, glass, and paint?

AThe Stamp Act
BThe Sugar Act
CThe Townshend Acts
DThe Intolerable Act


What man rode from Boston to warn the militia at Concord that the British were approaching?

ASamuel Adams
BPaul Revere
CJohn Adams
DJohn Hancock






Which Act taxed legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.

AThe Proclamation of 1763
BThe Stamp Act
CThe Townshend Acts
DThe Intolerable Act






To what does "the shot heard around the world" refer?

ABattle of Quebec
BBattle of Lexington and Concord
CBattle of Fort Duquesne
DBattle of Louisbourg

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On this day in 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade.

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