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Boston Tea Party - In Depth
On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested British policies by destroying 342 chests of East India Company tea in Boston Harbor. The event, later known as the Boston Tea Party, became one of the most famous protests leading to the American Revolution. Explore the Boston Tea Party with interactive games, reading comprehension passages, printable activities, vocabulary exercises, historical articles, and classroom resources. Students can learn about the Tea Act, Sons of Liberty, East India Company, destruction of the tea, and Britain's response through the Intolerable Acts.
Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts
Description: This page describes the Boston Tea Party and its causes and effects.
Boston Tea Party - Short Description
Description: This is a short article on the Boston Tea Party for younger readers.
What was the East India Company?
Description: This article discusses the history and power of England's East India Company, as well as the role it played in the Boston Tea Party.
Mob Etiquette? The Surprising Rules of the Boston Tea Party
Description: This articles describes the strict rules that governed the Boston Tea Party. Interesting and very surprising!
The Sons of Liberty
Description: This is an article on the formation, role, and effects of the Sons of Liberty.
Boston Tea Party Paragraph Paramedics
Description: Find and correct the spelling, punctuation, and usage errors in the paragraph. Click on the error and then type in the correction. Immediate feedback is given.
Boston Tea Party Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Massacre passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.
Boston Tea Party Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Boston Tea Party passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Boston Tea Party Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the Boston Tea Party that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 416 words; LEXILE = 1210
Behind the Scenes at the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Behind the Scenes at the Boston Tea Party reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800
Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 416 words; LEXILE = 1210
Behind the Scenes of the Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension for Google Classroom
Description: This modified google quiz form allows you to collect data and scores using this reading comprehension exercise as part of your google classroom. These are designed for you to customize, add to, subtract from, and change . PLEASE MAKE A COPY AND DO NOT TYPE ON THE ORIGINAL.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 377 Words; LEXILE: 910
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Details Focus - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Seqeuncing Focus - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension (Grades 2-4)
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Online (Grades 2-4)
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 377 Words; LEXILE: 910
Boston Tea Party Point Presentation
Description: This 14-slide power point presentation explains all about the Boston Tea Party, monopolies, and the Intolerable Acts. Perfect for American Revolution learning.
Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Boston Tea Party Test
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the Boston Tea Party. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Boston Tea Party narrative for reference.
Sons of Liberty Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 373 Words; LEXILE: 1110
The Tolerable Acts - Having Fun With the Intolerable Acts
Description: Students play the role as a member of Parliament who has serious concerns about the Intolerable Act. Instead, he or she argues that England should make immediate peace with the colonies by issuing a set of acts designed to reward them called the “Tolerable Acts.” Students must think of five acts that reward the colonists (such as Parliament erecting a statue of George Washington in front of Buckingham Palace).
The Case For and Against the Intolerable Acts - Flip the Narrative Multiple Perspective Comprehension
Description: These Flipping the Narrative activities help students explore history by comparing two contrasting perspectives on the same event. Students read both passages, annotate key ideas, and examine how each side uses evidence to support its arguments. By toggling between viewpoints and answering deeper-level questions, learners build critical thinking skills and a richer understanding of historical complexity.
Sons of Liberty Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 373 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Unfair Punishments - A Boston Tea Party Writing Prompt
Description: This writing prompts requires students to relate to the unfair punishments issued to the American colonists after the Boston Tea Party by detailing the most unfair punishment they've ever experienced, and the reasons why they were punished.
Boston Tea Party United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page
Description: This is a coloring page featuring the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party United States Coloring Page
Boston Tea Party Activities Bundles - All of the Printable Activities on the Boston Tea Party from mrnussbaum.com
Description: This packet contains all of the printable activities on the Boston Tea Party on MrNussbaum.com
Not Boring Jeopardy - 13 Colonies Game
Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the 13 colonies. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable.
Not Boring Jeopardy - American Revolution Edition
Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the American Revolution. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.
Tic Tac DOUGH - 13 Colonies Edition
Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the 13 colonies. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.
Tic Tac DOUGH - American Revolution Edition
Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the Revolutionary War. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.
Ms. Information Games - Causes of the Revolutionary War
Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to Philadelphia change the story of the events leading to the Revolutionary War. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!
Boston Tea Party Resources on MrNussbaum.com
Description: This video will describe how to use our Boston Tea Party activities.
American Revolution Timeline - Online Game
Description: This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order revolutionary war events along the timeline. Easy and Hard levels are available. Very fun, but very challenging.
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