Unit #1 Test- Colonization to Constitution

Locke argued that we had 3 main natural rights. What are they? (Select 3)

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property

_________________ influenced the Declaration of Independence and the English Bill of Rights.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

The Great Awakening was a __________ movement.

• political

• scientific

• religious

• artistic

Cattle, iron, and grain were produced in which colonial region?

• Backcountry

• New England

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

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

The original settlements in the thirteen British colonies were all located

• west of the Mississippi River

• on the Great Plains

• along the Gulf Coast

• east of the Appalachian Mountains

During the early to mid-1700s, the British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies contributed to

• a decline in colonial maufacturing

• the decline of slavery in the northern colonies

• a decrease in French and Spanish influence in North America

• the development of independent colonial trade practices

A government that must obey a written constitution is a government that is what?

• free of authority

• representative in nature

• dependent on salutary neglect

• based on the rule of law

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War (1754-1763)?

• disputed land claims in the Ohio River Valley between the French and the British

• conflicts between American colonists and the French over control of the Great Plains

• taxation of American colonists without representation in Parliament

• violation of trade agreements between European nations and Native Americans

Why was there a war between the British and the French in 1756?

• Money

• land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Trade

• Fighting for friendship with the Natives