Chapter 7 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The act created in 1767 put a tax on tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper.
A) Stamp act
B) Townshend Act
C) Sugar Act
D) Tea Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Townshend Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Tea Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Townshend Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Tea Act
B) Coercive Act
C) Stamp Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) The Battle at Bunker Hill
B) Boston Tea Party
C) The Tea Act
D) The Boston Massacre
  • 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 loyalists
B) The Daughters of Liberty
C) The patriots
D) The Sons of Liberty
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Treaty of Paris
C) The Townshend Act
D) The Proclamation of 1763
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) the tax money went to the French
C) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
D) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
  • 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 I
B) King George III
C) King James I
D) King James III
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pay for the French and Indian War
B) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
C) To pass the tea act.
  • 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 petition King George for lower taxes
D) to share news between colonies
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
B) Colonies should unite under on common government
C) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
D) the colonies should remain separate
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Ben Franklin
B) George Washington
C) John Hancock
D) Samuel Adams
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Hancock
D) George Washington
  • 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 Treaty of Paris
B) the Committees of Correspondence
C) the Albany Plan
D) Olive Branch Petition
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to create Committees of Correspondence
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
C) to discuss how to fight the British
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) George Washington
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 militia to retreat
B) he wanted revenge against the British
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted to conserve ammunition
  • 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 send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
B) to bring George Washington to his troops
C) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
  • 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) Redcoats
C) Partiots
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) minutemen
B) British soldiers
C) loyalists
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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