Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Townshend Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Stamp Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Intolerable Acts
D) Tea Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Townshend Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Sugar Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Tea Act
D) Coercive Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) The Battle at Bunker Hill
C) Boston Tea Party
D) The Tea Act
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To pass the tea act
B) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
C) To protect the colonists
D) To declare war
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The Daughters of Liberty
B) The patriots
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Townshend Act
B) The Coercive Act
C) The Treaty of Paris
D) The Proclamation of 1763
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) the tax money went to the French
C) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
D) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and the Colonies
B) France and Britain
C) Britain and Spain
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King George III
B) King James III
C) King George I
D) King James I
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pay for the French and Indian War
B) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
C) To pass the tea act.
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to petition King George for lower taxes
B) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
C) to convince the colonies to join together
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) Colonies should unite under on common government
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
C) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
D) the colonies should remain separate
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) George Washington
B) Ben Franklin
C) John Hancock
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) George Washington
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Hancock
D) Samuel Adams
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
B) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
C) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
D) fur trading increased
  • 18. The Second Continental Congress attempted to make peace with Britain when they sent the ___________________to King George III
A) the Albany Plan
B) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Committees of Correspondence
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to fight the British
B) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) John Hancock
B) George Washington
C) Sam Adams
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 21. Why did colonial militia commander William Prescott say, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
A) he wanted revenge against the British
B) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
C) he wanted to conserve ammunition
D) he wanted the militia to retreat
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Redcoats
B) Patriots
C) loyalists
D) Militia
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
B) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
C) to bring George Washington to his troops
  • 24. At the Boston Tea Party, the Son of Liberty dressed as _______________________ to throw tea of a ship and into the harbor.
A) Redcoats
B) Loyalists
C) Indians
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) British soldiers
D) loyalists
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