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Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
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  • 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) Townshend Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp 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) Coercive Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Tea Act
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Battle at Bunker Hill
D) The Boston Massacre
  • 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 Daughters of Liberty
B) The loyalists
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The patriots
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Townshend Act
C) The Treaty of Paris
D) The Proclamation of 1763
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
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 James III
B) King George I
C) King George III
D) King James I
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pass the tea act.
B) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
C) To pay for the French and Indian War
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to convince the colonies to join together
B) to share news between colonies
C) to petition King George for lower taxes
D) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should remain separate
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
C) Colonies should unite under on common government
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) George Washington
C) Ben Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) George Washington
C) John Hancock
D) Samuel Adams
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
B) fur trading increased
C) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
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 Albany Plan
C) the Treaty of Paris
D) the Committees of Correspondence
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to fight the British
B) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) Sam Adams
B) George Washington
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 the militia to retreat
C) he wanted revenge against the British
D) he wanted to conserve ammunition
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Redcoats
B) Patriots
C) loyalists
D) Militia
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) to bring George Washington to his troops
B) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
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) Indians
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) British soldiers
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) minutemen
D) loyalists
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