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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) Sugar Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Stamp act
D) Tea Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Townshend Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp 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) Stamp Act
C) Sugar 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 Battle at Bunker Hill
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Boston Massacre
D) The Tea Act
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To protect the colonists
B) To declare war
C) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
D) To pass the tea act
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The patriots
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The loyalists
D) The Sons of Liberty
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Treaty of Paris
B) The Coercive Act
C) The Proclamation of 1763
D) The Townshend Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
C) the tax money went to the French
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 James I
B) King James III
C) King George III
D) King George I
  • 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 share news between colonies
C) to convince the colonies to join together
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) Colonies should unite under on common government
C) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
D) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) George Washington
B) Samuel Adams
C) John Hancock
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) fur trading increased
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 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 discuss how to fight the British
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) John Hancock
B) George Washington
C) Sam Adams
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 British to see who was attacking them
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted to conserve ammunition
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Patriots
B) Redcoats
C) Militia
D) loyalists
  • 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) Loyalists
B) Partiots
C) Redcoats
D) Indians
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) minutemen
C) British soldiers
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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