7th Grade History Pre-Post Test

Which of the following has been a leading theory about how human beings first came to the Americas?

• They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America

• They swam across the Pacific Ocean from small islands

• They sailed from Europe to explore new lands

• They cross glaciers that once linked Antarctica to South America

Where did the first people who arrived in America migrate FROM?

• Europe

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

Vasco de Gama fulfilled Portugal’s goal of a sea route to Asia when he reached

• The coast of Brazil

• The Cape of Good Hope

• India (Asia)

• Mombasa in eastern Africa

Christopher Columbus plan to reach Asia was?

• Sailing north across the North Pole.

• Sailing West across the Atlantic Ocean to Asia

• Sailing South around Africa

• Sailing East through the Mediterranean Sea

Spanish settlements that served as center for teaching Native Americans about Christianity and ways of living were called

• Pueblos

• Missions

• Presidios

• Plantations

What crop was important in making Jamestown and early Virginia an economic success?

• Indigo

• Tobacco

• Potatoes

• Rice

Quakers were a protestant group who believed….

• White men were superior and that land should be taken by force.

• Enslaved people made the best workers and Natives had no right to the land

• All people were equal and that you should not use force against others

• All people should practice their religion and that anyone who refused should be banished.

The success of the large plantations of the Southern Colonies depended upon

• The region’s many large ports

• Large families

• Slavery & rich soil

• Rocky soil

Merchants in the American colonies began smuggling goods because

• They were fond of the Navigation Acts

• The did not like the Navigation Acts

• They liked helping Britain

• They liked having their trade controlled by Britain

What was a direct effect of the French and Indian War?

• It led to the British raising taxes on the Colonists

• It led to Native Americans being forced to move to Canada

• It led to the French controlling New England

• It led to the colonists overthrowing the King