Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Stamp act
B) Tea Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Stamp Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Tea Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Sugar Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Tea Act
B) The Boston Massacre
C) Boston Tea Party
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 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 Sons of Liberty
B) The loyalists
C) The patriots
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) the tax money went to the French
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
C) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
D) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
  • 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 George III
B) King James III
C) King George I
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 convince the colonies to join together
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should remain separate
C) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
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) Ben Franklin
C) Samuel Adams
D) George Washington
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) George Washington
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) 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) 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 create Committees of Correspondence
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to discuss how to fight the British
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) John Hancock
B) George Washington
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 to conserve ammunition
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Redcoats
C) loyalists
D) Patriots
  • 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) Indians
B) Partiots
C) Redcoats
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
B) minutemen
C) British soldiers
D) loyalists
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