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) Sugar Act
C) Stamp act
D) Tea Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Townshend Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Townshend Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea 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) The Tea Act
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Battle at Bunker Hill
D) The Boston Massacre
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
B) To declare war
C) To protect the colonists
D) To pass the tea act
  • 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 Coercive Act
B) The Treaty of Paris
C) The Proclamation of 1763
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) 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 George III
B) King James I
C) King James III
D) King George I
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
B) To pay for the French and Indian War
C) To pass the tea act.
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to convince the colonies to join together
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to share news between colonies
D) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should remain separate
B) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
C) Colonies should unite under on common government
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) John Hancock
C) Samuel Adams
D) George Washington
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Samuel Adams
D) George Washington
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
B) fur trading increased
C) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
D) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
  • 18. The Second Continental Congress attempted to make peace with Britain when they sent the ___________________to King George III
A) Olive Branch Petition
B) the Committees of Correspondence
C) the Treaty of Paris
D) the Albany Plan
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
B) to discuss how to fight the British
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) George Washington
B) Benjamin Franklin
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 revenge against the British
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted the militia to retreat
  • 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 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) Partiots
C) Loyalists
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) minutemen
D) British soldiers
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