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Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
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  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Tea Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Stamp act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Stamp Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Tea Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Sugar Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Tea Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Stamp Act
B) Tea Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Tea Act
B) The Boston Massacre
C) The Battle at Bunker Hill
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 Daughters of Liberty
B) The loyalists
C) The patriots
D) The Sons of Liberty
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Townshend Act
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Coercive Act
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) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) the tax money went to the French
D) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
  • 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 III
B) King James III
C) King James I
D) King George I
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
B) To pass the tea act.
C) To pay for the French and Indian War
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to convince the colonies to join together
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) Colonies should unite under on common government
C) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
D) the colonies should remain separate
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Ben Franklin
B) Samuel Adams
C) George Washington
D) John Hancock
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
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) 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 create Committees of Correspondence
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
C) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
D) to discuss how to fight the British
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
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 to conserve ammunition
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Patriots
B) loyalists
C) Redcoats
D) Militia
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
B) to bring George Washington to his troops
C) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
  • 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) loyalists
B) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
C) British soldiers
D) minutemen
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