Bench Mark Practice First 10 SG Questions

​Bench Mark Review Part 1

By kristen Lal

Multiple Choice

Which statement BEST describes why the Southern colonies were established?

• Settlers were seeking religious freedom.

• Settlers wanted to make a profit from trade.

• Settlers wanted to make a profit from trade.

• Settlers wanted to create more wealth for the English economy.

Multiple Choice

Which statement BEST describes the New England colonies?

•  They were primarily established by people looking for religious freedom.

• They traded goods produced on large plantations and farms in the South

• They had the longest growing season and the warmest weather of any of the colonies.

• They were established as a buffer zone between the colonies and the Spanish settlements.

Multiple Choice

Which statement accurately describes a difference between the Southern colonies and the New England colonies?

• The Southern colonies were known for a much colder climate.

• The Southern colonies were founded more for religious reasons.

• The Southern colonies were settled much later in the time period.

• The Southern colonies were more dependent on the plantation system.

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TThe elements in the list were all vital to the devellopment of​

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​in the British Colonies during the 17th Century. One reason the British developed colonies was because of the economic theory of ​

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, of the belief that country can incrase it wealth by increasing exports and reducing imports.

Multiple Choice

Why were the American colonies so valuable to the British Empire?

• The colonies had industrial factories that the British lacked.

• The colonies provided manufactured goods that could not be produced in England.

•  The colonies produced raw materials that were shipped to England.

• The colonies were the only source of new sailors and ships for Britain’s navy

Multiple Choice

Which list describes the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?

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Which TWO factors explain the change shown in the table?

• the invention of the cotton gin, which made cotton a more popular crop

• the trans-Atlantic trade, which made growing cash crops more profitable

  
  

• the slave codes, which were passed to control a large enslaved population

• the increased use of steamships, which transported goods throughout the South

• the demand for cotton and tobacco, which increased in both the colonies and Europe

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Select Four unintended consquences of his actions. Actions: Reduced enforcement of the navigation acts, which increased colonial trade with other European Nation. Allowed colonies to elect colonial legislatures. Allowed colonies to control their own budgets and taxation

allowed colonies to decide who could vote in local and colonial elections

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Control of Laws

Developed a separate identity from Britain

Developed Self-Governance

Had Less Economic relaince on Britain

Signed military traties with foreign nations

Increased taxes on imported goods from Britain

Multiple Choice

What did the Intolerable Acts seek to do?

•  tax colonists in order to pay off British debt

•  punish Massachusetts after the colonists protested

•  require colonists to pay for British military supplies

•  stop all settlement to the west of the colonies

Multiple Choice

During the American Revolution, a British coloner asked a group to join the British in fighting the Americans. He received this response to his request (the reading). The response reflects the feelings of certain members of which group during the Revolutionary War?

• Americna Indians

• American Women

• Free Black People

• Enslaved Black People