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) Townshend Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Tea Act
D) Intolerable Acts
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Townshend Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Tea Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Stamp Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Tea Act
D) Coercive Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Battle at Bunker Hill
D) The Tea Act
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To pass the tea act
B) To declare war
C) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
D) To protect the colonists
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The loyalists
B) The patriots
C) The Daughters of Liberty
D) The Sons of Liberty
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Townshend Act
C) The Proclamation of 1763
D) The Treaty of Paris
  • 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) France and Britain
B) Britain and Spain
C) Britain and the Colonies
  • 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 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) 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) John Hancock
B) Samuel Adams
C) Ben Franklin
D) George Washington
  • 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) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
B) fur trading increased
C) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
D) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
  • 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 discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
C) to create Committees of Correspondence
D) to discuss how to fight the British
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) George Washington
B) Sam Adams
C) Benjamin Franklin
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 the British to see who was attacking them
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted to conserve ammunition
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Patriots
C) loyalists
D) Redcoats
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) to bring George Washington to his troops
B) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
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) Indians
C) Partiots
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) loyalists
C) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
D) British soldiers
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