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) Townshend Act
D) Stamp act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Tea Act
B) Townshend 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) Sugar Act
D) Tea Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Stamp Act
B) Coercive Act
C) Tea Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Battle at Bunker Hill
B) The Boston Massacre
C) The Tea Act
D) Boston Tea Party
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
B) To protect the colonists
C) To declare war
D) To pass the tea act
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The Sons of Liberty
B) The patriots
C) The loyalists
D) The Daughters of Liberty
  • 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) 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 James I
C) King George III
D) King George 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 share news between colonies
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to convince the colonies to join together
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 remain separate
C) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
D) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Ben Franklin
B) George Washington
C) Samuel Adams
D) John Hancock
  • 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 forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
B) fur trading increased
C) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
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 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 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 revenge against the British
B) he wanted the militia to retreat
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted to conserve ammunition
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) loyalists
C) Redcoats
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) Loyalists
B) Partiots
C) Redcoats
D) Indians
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
B) British soldiers
C) minutemen
D) loyalists
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