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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) Tea Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp 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 Boston Massacre
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
B) To pass the tea act
C) To protect the colonists
D) To declare war
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The Daughters of Liberty
B) The Sons of Liberty
C) The patriots
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Townshend 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) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
D) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
  • 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 convince the colonies to join together
B) to share news between colonies
C) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
D) to petition King George for lower taxes
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should remain separate
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
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) Ben Franklin
B) Samuel Adams
C) John Hancock
D) George Washington
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) George Washington
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
B) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
C) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
D) fur trading increased
  • 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 discuss how to fight the British
B) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
C) to create Committees of Correspondence
D) to write the Declaration of Independence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) John Hancock
B) George Washington
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 the British to see who was attacking them
B) he wanted to conserve ammunition
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted revenge against the British
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Patriots
B) loyalists
C) Militia
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) Indians
B) Partiots
C) Loyalists
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) British soldiers
C) loyalists
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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