Colonial America & the Declaration of Independence Test Review

Match the following

• Explains why the Continental Congress made the declaration

• List of Grievances

• Declares the colonies as "Free and independent states" with the power to make political decisions

• Preamble

• All the names of the people who contributed.

• Declaration of Natural Rights

• A list of citizens rights, and explains that citizens form government to protect those rights.

• Signers

• A list of complaints about the British Government

• Resolution of Independence

Match the following

• Freedom of religion, trade & speech.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• social contract

• John Locke

• natural rights

• Baron de Montesquieu

• self elected government

• Voltaire

• separation of powers (3 branches of government)

• Thomas Hobbes

Self government was the main idea of the ________________.

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Right

• Declaration of Independence

Limited government is the idea that our Founding Fathers got from the ______________

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

Match the following

• an agreement among people in a society with their government

• repeal

• the quality or state of being free

• social contract

• a government in which citizens hold the power to rule

• boycott

• to refuse to purchase certain goods or services

• liberty

• to cancel a law

• democracy

Sending a letter to King George III and demanding that he restore their rights was a result of __________________

• The first Continental Congress

• The second Continental Congress

• The French and Indian War

• The battle at Lexington and Concord.

In which colonial region was the plantation system of farming popular?

• The Southern Colonies

• The Middle Colonies

• The New England Colonies

A cash crop is a crop that is sold instead of going to feed the farmer's family.

• True

• False

In which colonial region were cash crops most popular?

• The Middle Colonies

• The New England Colonies

• The Southern Colonies

A written agreement is a _____________

• compact

• petition