Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Sugar Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Stamp act
D) Tea Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Townshend Act
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) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Coercive Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) Boston Tea Party
B) The Battle at Bunker Hill
C) The Boston Massacre
D) The Tea Act
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To protect the colonists
B) To declare war
C) To pass the tea act
D) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The patriots
B) The loyalists
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The Daughters of Liberty
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Treaty of Paris
D) The Townshend Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
D) the tax money went to the French
  • 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 George I
C) King James III
D) King James I
  • 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 share news between colonies
B) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
C) to petition King George for lower taxes
D) to convince the colonies to join together
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
C) the colonies should remain separate
D) Colonies should unite under on common government
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) John Hancock
B) Samuel Adams
C) George Washington
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) George Washington
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 taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
C) fur trading increased
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) the Committees of Correspondence
B) the Albany Plan
C) Olive Branch Petition
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to write the Declaration of Independence
B) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
C) to discuss how to fight the British
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) George Washington
B) John Hancock
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 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) Patriots
C) Redcoats
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) Indians
B) Partiots
C) Loyalists
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) British soldiers
D) minutemen
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