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) Stamp act
C) Townshend Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Stamp Act
B) Intolerable Acts
C) Tea Act
D) Townshend 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) Sugar Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Coercive Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) Boston Tea Party
B) The Battle at Bunker Hill
C) The Tea Act
D) The Boston Massacre
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To pass the tea act
B) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
C) To protect the colonists
D) To declare war
  • 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 Treaty of Paris
C) The Townshend Act
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) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
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 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 pay for the French and Indian War
C) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
  • 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 remain separate
B) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
C) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
D) Colonies should unite under on common government
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Ben Franklin
B) John Hancock
C) George Washington
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) George Washington
C) Samuel Adams
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
D) fur trading increased
  • 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 discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
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) Benjamin Franklin
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 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) loyalists
B) Militia
C) Patriots
D) Redcoats
  • 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) Loyalists
C) Indians
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) minutemen
C) British soldiers
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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