8th Grade 2nd Quarter Review

The Appalachian Mountains had what effect on the people of the thirteen original colonies?

• they provided protection to the colonists from invading Indians

• they provided protection to the colonists from Spanish conquistadors

• they acted as a barrier to further settlement to the west

• animals lived there and were an important food source to major cities in the East

Mercantilism was the principle that

• the English colonies would lose their legal rights and elected assemblies.

• the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.

• a government could tax without consent of the taxpayers for the purpose of regulating trade.

• colonists would henceforth be required to pay taxes to the crown to fund their own protection.

The people who came to the American colonies in the 17th century had already been exposed to the idea of limited government thanks mainly to

• the Magna Carta

• the Constitution.

• the Council of Trent.

• the Articles of Confederation.

The colonial trend of having local governments that were increasingly independent from British control was most likely caused by

• widespread reading of Enlightenment principles.

• the yearning for political freedom.

• the practical necessity of having to care for their daily needs.

• the desire to continue the importation of slaves into the American colonies.

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.

• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.

• Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.

• the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.

The first financially successful English colony in the "new world" was

• Canada.

• Jamestown.

• Maryland.

• Plymouth.

Most of the depopulation of the Native American population in the 16th century can be attributed to

• disease.

• fires.

• slavery.

• war.

The "Great Awakening" was

• a phrase used to justify the institution of slavery as being beneficial to African-Americans.

• the movement to educate women in early colonial America for more active roles in raising children.

• a series of religious revivals that swept across the American colonies in the middle of the 18th Century.

• the spreading of the abolitionist movement in response to the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Historically, New England's town meetings were good examples of

• oligarchy.

• federalism.

• republicanism.

• direct democracy.

Preachers of the Great Awakening in 18th century America would have been most likely to give a sermon focusing on

• the rights of man.

• Enlightenment thought.

• the evils of the institution of slavery in the South.

• repenting of one's sins in order to be saved from eternal damnation.