Unit 1 - SSUSH1-2

Unit 1 - SSUSH1-2

11th - 12th Grade

18 Qs

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Unit 1 - SSUSH1-2

Unit 1 - SSUSH1-2

Assessment

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Social Studies

11th - 12th Grade

Practice Problem

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SSUSH1b, SSUSH1c, SSUSH1d

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

How did mercantilism encourage the development of colonies?

Mercantilists believed that colonies would promote trade.

Mercantilists believed colonies increased security in wartime.

Mercantilists argued that European rulers must spread their culture.

Mercantilists believed countries with colonies would never go to war.

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SSUSH1a

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What of the following was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Plymouth

Jamestown

Philadelphia

New York

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SSUSH1b

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Why did people choose to come to Jamestown?

to start the slave trade

to create the House of Burgesses

to make their fortune by growing tobacco

to follow John Rolfe

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SSUSH1b

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The Virginia House of Burgesses was significant because it 

negotiated the treaty of the French-Indian War.
attempted to subvert English rule before the Revolution.
acted as the first legislative body in the Americas.
granted early equal rights to non-white American settlers.

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SSUSH1b

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which describes the importance of town meetings in colonial New England?

They were used primarily to resolve religious issues.
They represent the first instances of direct democracy in the colonies.
Events like the Salem Witch Trials were conducted in town meetings.
It was through town meetings that the colonists interacted with Native Americans.

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SSUSH1c

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

How did the colony of New York form? 

Persecuted religious groups from England settled there.
French merchants set up a prosperous trading port there.
The Duke of York founded it after taking Iroquois land in several wars.
The British created it after taking the Dutch settlement New Amsterdam.

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SSUSH1d

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania 

to ensure religious freedom for Quakers. 
to escape Indian attacks in western New Jersey. 
after Kentucky proved to be too harsh for survival. 
after he failed in his family‘s business in England. 

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SSUSH1d

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