Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Tea Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp act
D) Townshend Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Tea Act
B) Intolerable Acts
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Tea Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar 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 protect the colonists
C) To declare war
D) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The Sons of Liberty
B) The patriots
C) The Daughters of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Treaty of Paris
B) The Townshend Act
C) The Proclamation of 1763
D) The Coercive Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the tax money went to the French
B) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
D) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and the Colonies
B) Britain and Spain
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 James III
D) King George I
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
B) To pay for the French and Indian War
C) To pass the tea act.
  • 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 pay Britain to defend them
C) the colonies should remain separate
D) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) John Hancock
B) Samuel Adams
C) Ben Franklin
D) George Washington
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) George Washington
D) John Hancock
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) fur trading increased
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
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 Albany Plan
B) the Committees of Correspondence
C) the Treaty of Paris
D) Olive Branch Petition
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to write the Declaration of Independence
B) to create Committees of Correspondence
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) Benjamin Franklin
B) George Washington
C) John Hancock
D) Sam Adams
  • 21. Why did colonial militia commander William Prescott say, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
A) he wanted the militia to retreat
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted to conserve ammunition
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 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 bring George Washington to his troops
C) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
  • 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) Partiots
C) Indians
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) loyalists
D) British soldiers
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