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) Townshend Act
D) Stamp act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Intolerable Acts
B) Townshend Act
C) Tea Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Sugar Act
B) Tea Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Stamp Act
B) Tea Act
C) Coercive 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 destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
B) To pass the tea act
C) To declare war
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 Proclamation of 1763
B) The Treaty of Paris
C) The Townshend Act
D) The Coercive Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) the tax money went to the French
D) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
  • 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 James I
D) King George 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 convince the colonies to join together
B) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
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 pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
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) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) George Washington
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Samuel Adams
B) John Hancock
C) George Washington
D) Benjamin Franklin
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
B) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
C) fur trading increased
D) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
  • 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 Treaty of Paris
D) the Committees of Correspondence
  • 19. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
A) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
B) to write the Declaration of Independence
C) to create Committees of Correspondence
D) to discuss how to fight the British
  • 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 revenge against the British
B) he wanted the militia to retreat
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) Redcoats
B) Militia
C) Patriots
D) loyalists
  • 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) Indians
C) Loyalists
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
B) loyalists
C) British soldiers
D) minutemen
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