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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) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Townshend 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) Sugar Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Coercive Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Tea 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 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 Sons of Liberty
C) The Daughters 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) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
B) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) the tax money went to the French
D) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and the Colonies
B) France and Britain
C) Britain and Spain
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King George III
B) King George I
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 convince the colonies to join together
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
C) to share news between colonies
D) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should remain separate
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) John Hancock
B) Samuel Adams
C) George Washington
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) George Washington
D) John Hancock
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) fur trading increased
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) the Treaty of Paris
C) Olive Branch Petition
D) the Committees of Correspondence
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to fight the British
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
C) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
D) to create Committees of Correspondence
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) George Washington
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Sam Adams
D) John Hancock
  • 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 British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted the militia to retreat
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Redcoats
B) Patriots
C) loyalists
D) Militia
  • 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) Loyalists
B) Indians
C) Partiots
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) minutemen
C) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
D) British soldiers
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