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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) Stamp act
B) Townshend Act
C) Tea Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Townshend Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Intolerable Acts
D) Tea Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Townshend Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Tea Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Coercive Act
B) Tea Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) The Tea Act
C) Boston Tea Party
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 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 patriots
B) The Sons of Liberty
C) The Daughters of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 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 tax money went to the French
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
C) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
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 the Colonies
C) Britain and Spain
  • 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 pass the tea act.
B) To pay for the French and Indian War
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 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) George Washington
B) Samuel Adams
C) Ben Franklin
D) John Hancock
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) George Washington
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) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
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 Committees of Correspondence
B) the Albany Plan
C) the Treaty of Paris
D) Olive Branch Petition
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to create Committees of Correspondence
B) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
C) to discuss how to fight the British
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 the militia to retreat
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted to conserve ammunition
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Patriots
C) Redcoats
D) loyalists
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
B) to bring George Washington to his troops
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) Loyalists
B) Redcoats
C) Indians
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) British soldiers
C) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
D) loyalists
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