District Benchmark 3

Which country got along with Natives, Christianized and traded beaver furs for profit.

• France

• Netherlands

• Spain

• England

The Virginia Company sponsored a colony in North America that led to -

• women finding employment in textile mills

• self-government

• fur trade with the Native Americans

Which colonial region was settled by Puritans and Pilgrims seeking religious freedom?

• New England

• Southern

• Middle

• Backcountry

What was the main economy of the New England region?

• Farming and hunting

• Trading and clothes making

• rug weaving and basket weaving

• Fishing and Ship Building

After which war did the British Parliament pass new laws (taxes) for the protection of the colonies?

• War of 1812

• Mexican-American War

• French-Indian War

• American Revolution

Colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation line of 1763

• Proclamation boundary

• Manifest Destiny

• Borderlands

The dumping of chests of tea into the Boston Harbor by the colonists were to ...

• Boycott British goods

• smuggle tea into Boston

• protest British taxation policies

• support British taxes

The Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists because ...

• they were not permitted to settle west of the Appalachians

• they wanted to move Canada

• it encouraged Native Americans to attack colonists

• it gave the Ohio River Valley to France

The first government created by the founding father's to protect the states from an abusive government was called the ...

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established which procedure?

• election of state governors by the people

• admission of a new state into the Union

• drafting of male citizens into state militias

• collection of property taxes from state residents