Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Townshend Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Townshend Act
B) Intolerable Acts
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Stamp Act
B) Tea Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Townshend Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Sugar Act
B) Tea Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Tea Act
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
B) To protect the colonists
C) To pass the tea act
D) To declare war
  • 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 Townshend Act
B) The Coercive Act
C) The Proclamation of 1763
D) The Treaty of Paris
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
B) the tax money went to the French
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
D) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and Spain
B) France and Britain
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 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 petition King George for lower taxes
B) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
C) to share news between colonies
D) to convince the colonies to join together
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should remain separate
B) Colonies should unite under on common government
C) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
D) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Ben Franklin
C) George Washington
D) John Hancock
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) George Washington
C) Samuel Adams
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 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) the Committees of Correspondence
C) Olive Branch Petition
D) the Albany Plan
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to fight the British
B) to create Committees of Correspondence
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) George Washington
C) Sam Adams
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 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) loyalists
B) Militia
C) Patriots
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) Redcoats
B) Loyalists
C) Indians
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) British soldiers
D) loyalists
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