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) Stamp 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) Townshend Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Sugar Act
B) Coercive Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea 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 pass the tea act
B) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
C) To declare war
D) To protect the colonists
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The loyalists
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The patriots
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Treaty of Paris
C) The Townshend Act
D) The Proclamation of 1763
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the tax money went to the French
B) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
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) 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 III
C) King James I
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 convince the colonies to join together
B) to share news between colonies
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) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should remain separate
C) Colonies should unite under on common government
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) George Washington
C) Ben Franklin
D) John Hancock
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Hancock
D) George Washington
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) fur trading increased
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
D) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
  • 18. The Second Continental Congress attempted to make peace with Britain when they sent the ___________________to King George III
A) the Committees of Correspondence
B) the Albany Plan
C) Olive Branch Petition
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to fight the British
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
C) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) George Washington
B) Sam Adams
C) John Hancock
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 revenge against the British
B) he wanted the militia to retreat
C) he wanted to conserve ammunition
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Patriots
C) loyalists
D) Redcoats
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
B) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
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) Redcoats
B) Indians
C) Partiots
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) British soldiers
D) loyalists
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