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) Stamp 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) Stamp Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Tea Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Sugar Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Tea Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Battle at Bunker Hill
B) The Boston Massacre
C) Boston Tea Party
D) The Tea Act
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
B) To protect the colonists
C) To declare war
D) To pass the tea act
  • 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 Proclamation of 1763
B) The Coercive Act
C) The Treaty of Paris
D) The Townshend Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
B) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
D) the tax money went to the French
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) France and Britain
B) Britain and the Colonies
C) Britain and Spain
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King George III
B) King James I
C) King George I
D) King James III
  • 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 share news between colonies
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to convince the colonies to join together
D) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should remain separate
C) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
D) Colonies should unite under on common government
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Samuel Adams
B) George Washington
C) Ben Franklin
D) John Hancock
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) George Washington
C) John Hancock
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) fur trading increased
D) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
  • 18. The Second Continental Congress attempted to make peace with Britain when they sent the ___________________to King George III
A) the Committees of Correspondence
B) the Treaty of Paris
C) Olive Branch Petition
D) the Albany Plan
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to fight the British
B) to create Committees of Correspondence
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) Sam Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) George Washington
D) John Hancock
  • 21. Why did colonial militia commander William Prescott say, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
A) he wanted to conserve ammunition
B) he wanted the militia to retreat
C) he wanted revenge against the British
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Redcoats
C) loyalists
D) Patriots
  • 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) Loyalists
B) Indians
C) Redcoats
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) loyalists
D) British soldiers
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