US History Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Practice

The situation described in the passage is caused by

• British desire for manufactured goods from the colonies

• British need for cheap factory labor

• Colonial need for cheap labor

• Colonial desire for raw materials from Britain

What is the most likely purpose of the document?

• To highlight the dehumanization involved in the African slave trade

• To record the specifics of the economics of the Triangle Trade System

• To minimize the purpose of the Triangle Trade system

• To inspire the slaves to rebel against their white slave masters

Chief Canassatego wrote this speech to inform his people about

• Normal customs and interactions between Native Americans and European settlers

• The strain of the encroaching colonists on Native American land

• A possible alliance between the European settlers and the Native American tribes

• A war he is declaring between European settlers and Native Americans

What was one action taken by the British government to deal with the issues described in this speech?

• Closing Native American access to colonial land by forcing the Native Americans onto reservations

• Increasing government aid to support colonial farming

• Passing the policy of salutary neglect

• Limiting colonial movement past the Appalachian Mountains with the Proclamation of 1763

The situation described within this speech eventually led to

• A declaration of war between Native Americans and the British colonists

• A rebellion of the colonists towards British policy and control

• A confirmation of the British government as the “motherland” over the colonists

• An establishment of an alliance between Native Americans and colonists

Which of the following most likely led to the situation depicted in the image on the left (View of Boston Harbor)?

• British settlers imported wood from England to build large ships in Boston

• Colonial settlers excavated the shallow beach to create Boston harbor.

• Naturally deep water and a sheltered harbor encouraged colonists to settle in Boston

• The British army invaded Boston to claim it from the Spanish empire.

Based on these two images, which claim is most accurate?

• Colonial settlements did not vary much; all settlers lived in villages that grew into large cities.

• Large plantations growing tobacco and cotton were common in both New England and the southern colonies.

• Shipbuilding anchored the economy in northern and southern colonies.

• Colonial economies varied by region, depending on the geographic conditions.

This courtroom summation helped establish which democratic principle in colonial America?

• trial by jury

• equal voting rights

• protection of private property

• freedom of the press

Which trial helped establish this principle?

• McCoullah vs. Maryland

• Gibbons vs. Ogden

• The Rosenberg Trial

• The Trial of Peter Zenger

Ideas like those presented in the reading affected the laws that were created by

• separation of church and state

• an independent court system

• universal suffrage

• representative assemblies