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) Tea Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Stamp Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Tea Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Coercive 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 declare war
B) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
C) To protect the colonists
D) To pass the tea act
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The patriots
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Treaty of Paris
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Coercive Act
D) The Townshend Act
  • 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 James I
B) King George I
C) King James III
D) King George III
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pay for the French and Indian War
B) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
C) To pass the tea act.
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to share news between colonies
B) to convince the colonies to join together
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) Colonies should unite under on common government
B) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
C) the colonies should remain separate
D) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
  • 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) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 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) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Treaty of Paris
D) the Committees of Correspondence
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to write the Declaration of Independence
B) to discuss how to fight the British
C) to create Committees of Correspondence
D) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
  • 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 to conserve ammunition
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted revenge against the British
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Redcoats
C) Patriots
D) loyalists
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
B) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
C) to bring George Washington to his troops
  • 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) Loyalists
C) Partiots
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) British soldiers
D) loyalists
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