Review- Checkpoint 2

Multiple Choice

Why is the Magna Carta an important document in British history?

• It was the first document to place limits on the king's power
• It outlawed feudalism and gave voting rights to all citizens
• It established Parliament as the nation's legislative body.
• It determined England's physical boundaries

Multiple Choice

What is the middle passage?

• the trip from England to Africa

• the trip from England to the Americas

• the trip from Africa to the Americas

• the trip from Africa to England

Multiple Choice

What did European Countries BUY from the Colonies?

• Raw Materials

• Finished Products

Multiple Choice

What did the European countries do with the raw materials?

• Turn them into finished products

• Re-sell them to other Colonies

• Re-sell them to other Countries

• Trade them away

Multiple Choice

John Locke believed people were born with certain rights than no-one could take away. 

• Life, liberty, property
• Life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• Freedom of speech, religion, and property
• Social Contract

Multiple Choice

The Enlightenment was a period of time where people focused on __________________.

• Life, Liberty, Happiness

• Reason, Liberty, Individual Rights

• Math, Civics, Chemistry

• Thought, questions, answers

Multiple Choice

Jonathan Edwards was most known for his sermon titled...

• Repent, Repent

• The Necessity for a New Great Awakening

• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• City Upon a Hill

Multiple Choice

Which treaty was negotiated to end the war?

• Treaty of London, 1780

• Treaty of Paris, 1763

• Treaty of Versaille, 1756

• Treaty of Sussex, 1760

Multiple Choice

Which of these was a result of the war?

• The colonist had less of a reason to stay loyal to Britain

• The colonists saw increased taxes to pay for the war

• The colonists westward expansion was restricted

• All of these

Multiple Choice

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?

• The French and British claimed the same land.
• The French and Indians claimed the same land.
• The Indians and British claimed the same land.
• The Indians wouldn't sell their land.

Multiple Choice

 What cartoon did Benjamin Franklin draw during the French and Indian War?

• Freedom is Never Free

• Join, or Die

• Live or Let Live

• Colonies, Unite!

Multiple Choice

What land area was fought over during the French and Indian War?

• Florida

• The Mississippi River Delta

• The Atlantic Coastline

• The Ohio River Valley

Multiple Choice

What was the Albany Plan of Union?

• a formal proposal to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War

• a military proposal to defeat the French in New Orleans

• a formal proposal to unite all of the Native American tribes against the French

• a formal proposal to give the colonies independence from the British

Multiple Choice

The British government issued the Proclamation of 1763 to limit the area British colonists were allowed to settle. Which geographic feature did the British use as the boundary of approved settlement?

• Lake Michigan

• Gulf of Mexico

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian Mountains

Multiple Choice

What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

Multiple Choice

The excerpt above reflects the dissatisfaction of American colonists with the-

• political debates that took place at the Albany Convention

• interference of Great Britain in the slave trade

• economic consequences of the Great Awakening

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain following the French and Indian War

Multiple Choice

Why were the colonists upset about the taxes?

• the colonists were not upset; they agreed to the taxes

• because the taxes were only for the rich people

• because they had no representatives in Parliament

• because the taxes came from France

Multiple Choice

.The 1765 act that taxed all paper and printed goods in the colonies was called the ____________.

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

Multiple Choice

What did the colonists call the laws that were passed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Quartering Act

Multiple Select

Which of the following is a action used by colonist to fight British taxes?

• boycotting

• voting

• the colonists did not fight the taxes

• walk-outs