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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) Sugar Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Townshend Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp 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) Stamp Act
D) Townshend Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Sugar Act
B) Coercive Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) The Tea Act
C) Boston Tea Party
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 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 Sons of Liberty
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The loyalists
D) The patriots
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Treaty of Paris
B) The Coercive Act
C) The Townshend Act
D) The Proclamation of 1763
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
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) France and Britain
B) Britain and the Colonies
C) Britain and Spain
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King George I
B) King James III
C) King George III
D) King James I
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pass the tea act.
B) To pay for the French and Indian War
C) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to petition King George for lower taxes
B) to share news between colonies
C) to convince the colonies to join together
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) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Ben Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) John Hancock
C) George Washington
D) Samuel Adams
  • 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 Committees of Correspondence
B) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Albany Plan
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
B) to create Committees of Correspondence
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to discuss how to fight the British
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) Sam Adams
B) George Washington
C) Benjamin Franklin
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 the British to see who was attacking them
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted to conserve ammunition
D) he wanted the militia to retreat
  • 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 bring George Washington to his troops
B) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
C) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
  • 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) minutemen
B) loyalists
C) British soldiers
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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