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