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) Stamp Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Tea Act
D) Intolerable Acts
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Stamp Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Tea Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) Boston Tea Party
B) The Boston Massacre
C) The Tea Act
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To protect the colonists
B) To pass the tea act
C) To declare war
D) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The Daughters of Liberty
B) The Sons of Liberty
C) The loyalists
D) The patriots
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Townshend Act
D) The Treaty of Paris
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) the tax money went to the French
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) 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 George I
B) King James 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 pass the tea act.
C) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
B) to share news between colonies
C) to convince the colonies to join together
D) to petition King George for lower taxes
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
B) the colonies should remain separate
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) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Samuel Adams
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) George Washington
B) Samuel Adams
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) John Hancock
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) fur trading increased
B) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
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 Treaty of Paris
B) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Committees of Correspondence
D) the Albany Plan
  • 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 discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
D) to write the Declaration of Independence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) John Hancock
B) Sam Adams
C) George Washington
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 the British to see who was attacking them
C) he wanted revenge against the British
D) he wanted the militia to retreat
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) loyalists
B) Redcoats
C) Militia
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) Redcoats
C) Partiots
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) minutemen
C) British soldiers
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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