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) Intolerable Acts
B) Stamp Act
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) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Townshend Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Coercive 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 declare war
B) To protect the colonists
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 patriots
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The loyalists
D) The Sons of Liberty
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Townshend Act
B) The Treaty of Paris
C) The Proclamation of 1763
D) The Coercive Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
C) the tax money went to the French
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 III
B) King James I
C) King George I
D) King George III
  • 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 warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to convince the colonies to join together
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
C) the colonies should remain separate
D) Colonies should unite under on common government
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) George Washington
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) fur trading increased
B) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
C) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
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 Treaty of Paris
B) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Albany Plan
D) the Committees of Correspondence
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to create Committees of Correspondence
B) to discuss how to fight the British
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) Sam Adams
C) John Hancock
D) George Washington
  • 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 the militia to retreat
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted revenge against the British
  • 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) Loyalists
B) Indians
C) Redcoats
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) minutemen
C) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
D) British soldiers
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