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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) Stamp act
B) Townshend Act
C) Tea Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 2. The act passed in 1773 is also known as the Coercive Act.
A) Tea Act
B) Intolerable Acts
C) Townshend Act
D) Stamp Act
  • 3. The tax passed in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and many other imported goods.
A) Stamp Act
B) Tea Act
C) Townshend Act
D) Sugar Act
  • 4. The tax passed in 1765 taxed anything printed on paper
A) Sugar Act
B) Tea Act
C) Stamp 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) The Tea Act
D) Boston Tea Party
  • 6. Why did British soldiers march to Concord?
A) To pass the tea act
B) To destroy colonist weapons and military supplies
C) To declare war
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 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 Treaty of Paris
D) The Townshend Act
  • 9. Why were the colonist upset about new taxes?
A) the tax money went to the French
B) they did not have a voice in passing tax laws
C) merchants wanted to tax their own goods
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) 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 I
C) King James III
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 petition King George for lower taxes
B) to convince the colonies to join together
C) to share news between colonies
D) to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the British advance
  • 14. What did the Albany Plan propose?
A) the colonies should pay Britain to defend them
B) the colonies should remain separate
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) George Washington
B) Ben Franklin
C) Samuel Adams
D) John Hancock
  • 16. Who was the commander of the Colonial Army?
A) George Washington
B) Samuel Adams
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) John Hancock
  • 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) colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian
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 Committees of Correspondence
B) Olive Branch Petition
C) the Albany Plan
D) the Treaty of Paris
  • 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 respond to the Intolerable Acts
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 British to see who was attacking them
C) he wanted to conserve ammunition
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) Redcoats
B) Partiots
C) Indians
D) Loyalists
  • 25. During the Boston Massacre, ______________________were killed.
A) five colonists including Crispus Attucks
B) British soldiers
C) minutemen
D) loyalists
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