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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) Townshend Act
B) Stamp act
C) Sugar Act
D) Tea 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) Tea Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Townshend Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Coercive Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) The Tea Act
C) The Battle at Bunker Hill
D) Boston Tea Party
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To declare war
B) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
C) To protect the colonists
D) To pass the tea act
  • 7. What group was founded to protest taxation without representation?
A) The Sons of Liberty
B) The patriots
C) The Daughters of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Treaty of Paris
D) The Townshend Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the tax money went to the French
B) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
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 George I
B) King James I
C) King James III
D) King George III
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pay for the French and Indian War
B) To pass the tea act.
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 convince the colonies to join together
C) to share news between colonies
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 declare independence from Britain
C) Colonies should unite under on common government
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) John Hancock
C) George Washington
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) George Washington
  • 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) 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 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 discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
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 to conserve ammunition
B) he wanted the militia to retreat
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
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 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) Partiots
B) Loyalists
C) Redcoats
D) Indians
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
B) British soldiers
C) minutemen
D) loyalists
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