Benchmark Review

During European Exploration, Spanish colonists were colonizing for...

• Enslaved native populations

• Establish catholic missions

• Promote political freedom

• Became commercial shipbuilders

French colonists came for...

• Fur trading

• Utopian societies

• The triangular trade

• Create public schools

Virginia Company was given a charter to go to...

• find Gold

• For new markets

• Pennsylvania for self government

• Jamestown and allowed them to self govern

Which colony was based mostly on shipbuilding and fishing?

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• Maryland

• Georgia

King George issued economic policies (the Acts) in order to...

• Encourage foreign trade

• Find the new colonies

• Recover cost from the French and Indian War

• Promote growth of cottage industries

Which geographic feature did British use as boundary in 1763?

• Mississippi River

• Rocky Mountains

• Gulf of Mexico

• Appalachian Mountains

The Boston Tea Party was an action done by the colonists to...

• Encourage an outbreak of war

• End trade with the French

• Protest British taxation

• Protest a ban on tea

When creating the Articles of Confederation, the drafters (writers)...

• Did not want a judicial system

• Feared a strong central government

• Uncertain on democracy

• Did not want power in the state government

The Tenth Amendment was written in the Bill of Rights in order to...

• Encourage citizens to monitor the federal government

• Prevent colonist between state and federal governments

• Limit the authority of the federal government

• Increase the participation of citizens in state government

To propose and ratify an amendment in the U.S. Constitution you must need to propose...

• 3/4 in both houses & ratify 3/4 of the peoples vote

• 2/3 in both houses & ratify 3/4 of Electoral College

• 3/4 in both houses & ratify 3/4 of the Supreme Court

• 2/3 in both houses & ratify 3/4 of state legislature