Question

Which of the following is TRUE?

a. In the wake of the Boston Massacre, Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson promoted the British soldiers involved and secretly sent them back to England.
b. Andrew Oliver was the British official responsible for implementing the provisions of the Stamp Act.
c. Paxton Boys were British troops under General Sir Geoffrey Paxton who were quartered in Boston.
d. The Stamp Act was enacted in1765 and remained in force until the Americans defeated the British in Yorktown, Virginia (1781).
e. The Boston Tea Party was a banquet hosted by the Sons of Liberty to celebrate the owners of the East India Company who had days before unloaded a shipment of tax‑free tea in Boston.

Answer 1

Option B.

Step-by-step explanation:

Andrew Oliver was the British official responsible for implementing the provisions of the Stamp Act, is the right answer.

In the colony of Massachusetts Bay, Andrew Oliver was a trader and public officer. He is popularly known as the personality who was responsible for executing the requirements of the Stamp Act. In the year 1765, he was appointed to serve the obnoxious Stamp Act in Massachusetts. Though he was against this act, he told people that he was in support of this act. He was executed in puppet from the Liberty Tree of Boston in a demonstration planned by the Loyal Nine, a forerunner to the Sons of Liberty.