US History Final

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492

• 1607

• 1624

• 1732

Why did Jamestown need tobacco to survive?

• Because the American Indians would not help them.
• Because they never found any real gold 
• Because they were addicted to smoking.
• Because people in England would not buy anything else.

When slaves were loaded onto boats to be taken and sold, this part of the triangular trade route was called what?

• the American Passage
• the Middle Passage
• the Lower Passage
• the African Passage

Which religious group settled Pennsylvania?

• Quakers
• Puritans
• Irish Catholic
• The Mormons

Trade routes that connected North America, Europe, and Africa

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Indentured Servants

• Slaves

How did indentured servitude benefit the colonies?

• It allowed people to come to the New World without paying a fee.

• It kept people in England because they did not want to work.

• It allowed people to get free land in the New World.

• It helped people get to the New World on a faster boat.

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

• New England
• Southern
• Middle
• Backcountry

Why did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?

• Angered the colonists because they couldn't move West of the Appalachian  Mountains
• Angered the colonists because they didn't want to pay a tax on stamps
• Left France in a war debt that caused them to tax the colonists
• Left Britain in a war debt that caused them to tax the colonists

What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

• When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government
• When people are taxed twice on the same item
• When some people get taxed and others don't
• When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is

What document said that the colonists could not move WEST of the Appalachian Mountain?

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of 1763

• Charter of 1732

• Mayflower Compact