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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) Tea Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Townshend 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) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Coercive Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Battle at Bunker Hill
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Tea Act
D) The Boston Massacre
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To declare war
B) To pass the tea act
C) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
D) To protect the colonists
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The loyalists
B) The Sons of Liberty
C) The Daughters of Liberty
D) The patriots
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Treaty of Paris
B) The Townshend Act
C) The Coercive Act
D) The Proclamation of 1763
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
B) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
D) the tax money went to the French
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and Spain
B) France and Britain
C) Britain and the Colonies
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King George I
B) King George III
C) King James I
D) King James III
  • 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 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 declare independence from Britain
B) Colonies should unite under on common government
C) the colonies should remain separate
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) George Washington
C) John Hancock
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) George Washington
D) Samuel Adams
  • 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 Treaty of Paris
C) Olive Branch Petition
D) the Albany Plan
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to write the Declaration of Independence
B) to create Committees of Correspondence
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 revenge against the British
B) he wanted to conserve ammunition
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) Militia
B) loyalists
C) Patriots
D) Redcoats
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) to bring George Washington to his troops
B) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
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) Indians
C) Redcoats
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) British soldiers
C) loyalists
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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