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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) Tea Act
B) Sugar Act
C) Stamp act
D) Townshend Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Tea Act
B) Intolerable Acts
C) Stamp Act
D) Townshend 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) Sugar 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) The Boston Massacre
C) The Tea Act
D) Boston Tea Party
  • 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 Sons of Liberty
B) The patriots
C) The Daughters of Liberty
D) The loyalists
  • 8. The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
A) The Townshend Act
B) The Proclamation of 1763
C) The Treaty of Paris
D) The Coercive Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
B) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
C) the colonists were not members of the East India Company
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 George I
B) King James III
C) King James I
D) King George III
  • 12. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?
A) To pass the tea act.
B) To cause a war between Spain and the colonists
C) To pay for the French and Indian War
  • 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 share news between colonies
D) to petition King George for lower taxes
  • 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) the colonies should remain separate
D) Colonies should unite under on common government
  • 15. Which historical figure was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty?
A) George Washington
B) John Hancock
C) Ben Franklin
D) Samuel Adams
  • 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) fur trading increased
B) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
C) Britain gave Spain all land west of the Appalachians
D) colonists were taxed for sugar, molasses, and cloth
  • 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 fight the British
B) to create Committees of Correspondence
C) to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts
D) to write the Declaration of Independence
  • 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 to conserve ammunition
B) he wanted the militia to retreat
C) he wanted revenge against the British
D) he wanted the British to see who was attacking them
  • 22. A colonist who opposed British Rule called themselves _______________
A) Militia
B) Patriots
C) Redcoats
D) loyalists
  • 23. What was the purpose of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride?
A) To warn the minutemen that the British soldiers were coming.
B) to bring George Washington to his troops
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) Indians
B) Loyalists
C) Redcoats
D) Partiots
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) loyalists
B) British soldiers
C) minutemen
D) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
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