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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) 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) Townshend Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Coercive 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 pass the tea act
B) To declare war
C) To protect the colonists
D) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
  • 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 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 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) 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 III
B) King George I
C) King James III
D) King James I
  • 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 warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
C) to convince the colonies to join together
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should remain separate
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
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) Ben Franklin
D) George Washington
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Samuel Adams
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
B) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
C) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
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 Treaty of Paris
B) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Albany Plan
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 create Committees of Correspondence
C) to write the Declaration of Independence
D) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
  • 20. Who proposed the Albany plan of Union?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) Sam Adams
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 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) loyalists
B) Patriots
C) Militia
D) Redcoats
  • 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) Loyalists
C) Partiots
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) British soldiers
B) loyalists
C) minutemen
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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