Semester 1 Final 8th Grade American History - Practice

For what reason did a group of colonists agree to this compact?

• To declare independence from all European nations

• To form a social contract among themselves

• To demonstrate goodwill toward local American Indians

• To establish trade relations with other colonies

What happened to the colony in Roanoke?

• The colony was deserted.

• The colony found gold.

• The colony found religious freedom.

• The colony became the city of Boston

The Virginia Company authorized a general assembly in Virginia so that colonists could —

• self-govern on a local level

• vote in the British Parliament

• participate in a free-market economy

• express dissatisfaction with British rule

What numbered excerpt emphasizes that the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were based on religion?

• Number 1

• Number 2

• Number 3

According to the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,

• The governor chooses officials to serve on the Court of Elections

• The governor makes the laws

• The Court of Elections elects the governor

• The Court of Election chooses officials to serve, and the General Court makes the laws.

The political cartoon best illustrates England's goal of:

• removing James II as King in the Glorious Revolution

• allowing slave trade in the colonies

• a mercantile economy with favorable balance of trade

• religious freedom in the colonies

The excerpt most directly shows which of the following goals for England’s North American colonies?

• Forcing them to build factories and produce manufactured goods

• Helping them trade with France, Spain and the Dutch

• Protecting mercantilism by allowing trade only with England, and only on colonial or English ships

• Protecting them from American Indian attacks

One direct effect of the Navigation Act was that it

• promoted treaties with Spain and France throughout the 1700s

• contributed to the rise of smuggling in the colonies

• encouraged colonists in North America to expand trade agreements with American Indians

• led to heavy taxes on the North American colonists in the early 1700s

The goals presented in the excerpt from the act have the most in common with which of the following current events?

• President Trump's plan to build a border wall

• Google’s loss of a 170 billion dollar lawsuit for collecting information on children under 13 years old

• Elon Musk and Space X’s plan to colonize Mars

• President Trump's trade restrictions with China

The geographic factors in this table led primarily to the —

• founding of trade schools in some colonies

• development of different economies in the two regions

• establishment of import taxes in some colonies

• pattern of religious differences in the two regions