Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Sugar Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp act
D) Townshend 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) Stamp Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Boston Massacre
B) The Battle at Bunker Hill
C) Boston Tea Party
D) The Tea Act
  • 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 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 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) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
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 I
B) King George III
C) King George I
D) King James 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 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 declare independence from Britain
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
C) Colonies should unite under on common government
D) the colonies should remain separate
  • 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) George Washington
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) John Hancock
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) fur trading increased
B) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
C) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
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) Olive Branch Petition
B) the Albany Plan
C) the Committees of Correspondence
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 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 create Committees of Correspondence
D) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) Sam Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Hancock
D) George Washington
  • 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 revenge against the British
C) he wanted the militia to retreat
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Redcoats
C) loyalists
D) Patriots
  • 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) Redcoats
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) British soldiers
C) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
D) loyalists
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