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) Tea Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Tea Act
B) Townshend Act
C) Intolerable Acts
D) Stamp Act
  • 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) Tea Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Coercive Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 5. The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the ______________________
A) Boston Tea Party
B) The Tea Act
C) The Boston Massacre
D) The Battle at Bunker Hill
  • 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 loyalists
C) The Sons of Liberty
D) The patriots
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Coercive Act
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Townshend Act
D) The Treaty of Paris
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
B) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
C) the tax money went to the French
D) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
  • 10. Which groups fought in the French and Indian War?
A) Britain and Spain
B) France and Britain
C) Britain and the Colonies
  • 11. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution
A) King George I
B) King George III
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 pay for the French and Indian War
C) To pass the tea act.
  • 13. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
A) to share news between colonies
B) to petition King George for lower taxes
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) Colonies should unite under on common government
B) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
C) the colonies should remain separate
D) the colonies should declare independence from Britain
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) Samuel Adams
B) George Washington
C) John Hancock
D) Ben Franklin
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) George Washington
C) Samuel Adams
D) John Hancock
  • 17. What was the result of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
B) fur trading increased
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 Treaty of Paris
C) the Committees of Correspondence
D) the Albany Plan
  • 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) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Sam Adams
  • 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 to conserve ammunition
C) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
D) he wanted revenge against the British
  • 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 warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
B) to send a letter to Hancock and Adams in Concord
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) Loyalists
B) Indians
C) Partiots
D) Redcoats
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) minutemen
C) British soldiers
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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