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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) Townshend Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Tea Act
D) Intolerable Acts
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Townshend Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Coercive Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) Boston Tea Party
B) The Boston Massacre
C) The Tea Act
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 declare war
D) To protect the colonists
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The patriots
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Treaty of Paris
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Coercive Act
D) The Townshend Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
C) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
D) the tax money went to the French
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and the Colonies
B) Britain and Spain
C) France and Britain
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King James III
B) King George I
C) King James I
D) King George 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 petition King George for lower taxes
B) to convince the colonies to join together
C) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) Colonies should unite under on common government
B) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
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) Samuel Adams
C) John Hancock
D) George Washington
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) John Hancock
B) Samuel Adams
C) George Washington
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
B) fur trading increased
C) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
D) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
  • 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 Committees of Correspondence
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to write the Declaration of Independence
B) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
C) to discuss how to fight the British
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 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 revenge against the British
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) loyalists
C) Militia
D) Redcoats
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
B) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
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) Redcoats
B) Indians
C) Partiots
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
B) British soldiers
C) minutemen
D) loyalists
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