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Worksheet: Boston Tea Party

Directions:  In the CD-ROM game ‘Boston Tea Party’, you collect items from the inside of a house in colonial Boston to set up for a tea party.  With each item you find, there is information you can retrieve about life in colonial America prior to the American Revolution.  Write the answers to the following questions in the spaces provided.

1.    Find this object:

and answer this question;

What does a clock have to do with God?

Question to research/think about:  What was the predominant religion in the northeastern states of America before the American Revolution?

2.     Find this object:

and answer this question;

What does this have to do with sea ships and technology?

Question to research/think about:  The East India Company lost a lot of their tea during what important event in Boston’s history?  What was the reason for this event to happen in the first place?

3.     Find this object:

and then answer this question;

What event in Boston in 1760 left many families in the city homeless?

Questions to research/think about:  What could regular citizens of Boston do to help prevent fires from spreading throughout the city?  Without televisions, how else besides newspapers did colonial people get the latest news?

4.       Find this object:

and answer this question;

What kind of plates would colonial people use when they invited guests for dinner?

Questions to research/think about:  What were the plates colonials used on an everyday basis made out of?

Suggested Website:

• http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/boston/index.html "Colonial Boston Unearthed"
  *Discusses archaeological findings from 'The Big Dig'. The contents of a colonial privy are used to make a hypothesis about the occupation of a woman who lived and worked in her house.