What did the Tea Act of 1773 actually do?

In May 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which let the East India Company sell tea in the colonies through its own consignees. What did colonists in Boston do that December?

On August 14, 1765 a Boston crowd hung an effigy of Andrew Oliver from an elm tree, paraded it through the streets and pulled down a building he owned. The next day he resigned the post he had accepted. Which act had he agreed to help administer?

In 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first tax it had laid directly on the colonies rather than on trade. How did the colonies respond that October?

What did the Massachusetts Government Act of 1774 do?

Which colonial organization, formed in the port towns in 1765, coordinated crowd demonstrations against British measures and enforced the boycotts of British goods?

What were the committees of correspondence set up to do?

What happened in Boston on March 5, 1770?

In June 1772 the British customs schooner Gaspee ran aground while chasing suspected smugglers off Rhode Island. What did local colonists do?

What did the Quartering Act of 1765 require of the colonies?

What did the Quebec Act of 1774 do?

In 1767 Parliament placed new duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea brought into the colonies, and used the money to pay royal officials' salaries. What did colonial merchants do?

In 1774 Parliament closed a colonial port to shipping, replaced an elected council with royal appointees, and allowed troops to be quartered in the town. What did the colonies do in response?

The Townshend program of 1767 set up a Board of Customs Commissioners at Boston with new officers to enforce the trade laws. What followed in June 1768, when they seized John Hancock's sloop Liberty?

In 1770 Parliament repealed the duties on glass, lead, paint and paper but deliberately kept the one on tea. What did colonial merchants do?

On the night of April 18, 1775 General Gage sent troops out of Boston to seize colonial military stores held at Concord. What happened the next morning?

Colonial merchants complained in 1764 that a man accused of smuggling could now be tried far from home, without a jury, before a single judge in a vice-admiralty court. Which act had extended that jurisdiction?

Colonial assemblies and merchants protested that with hard coin flowing out to Britain and their own bills of credit no longer good in payment of debts, they had no usable money left for trade. Which act were they protesting?

Massachusetts colonists objected in 1774 that a royal official charged with a capital crime while enforcing the law could be sent to England or another colony to stand trial. Which act were they objecting to?

In February 1768 the Massachusetts assembly sent a circular letter to the other colonies arguing that Parliament could not lay duties on the colonies for the purpose of raising a revenue. Which measure was the letter answering?

In the summer of 1774 other colonies sent rice, wheat, livestock and cash overland to Boston, whose harbor had been shut to all shipping until the town paid for property it had destroyed. Which act had shut it?

Repealing the Stamp Act in 1766, Parliament passed the same day an act declaring that it 'had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority... to bind the colonies... in all cases whatsoever'. What was Parliament asserting?

Writing in 1767 about a recent act, John Dickinson observed 'an authority expresly claimed and exerted to impose duties on these colonies; not for the regulation of trade... but for the single purpose of levying money upon us'. What was his objection?

A royal proclamation of 1763 said Indian nations under the Crown's protection should not be disturbed in possession of lands that, 'not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are reserved to them... as their hunting grounds'. What did it establish?

A congress meeting in 1774 resolved 'That they are entitled to life, liberty, & property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.' What was it claiming?

Paine wrote: 'Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.' What is the argument?

Which of these British measures came first?

Colonists destroyed a shipment of East India Company tea in Boston harbor in December 1773. What did Parliament do in the spring that followed?

Which of these happened between the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 and the Boston Massacre in 1770?

Which of these came last?