1st Semester Quiz

Motivation behind European exploration:

• Spread Christianity

• Promote self-government

• Create political parties

• Locate a new labor force

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut-

• First written constitution in the 13 colonies

• First law written in the 13 colonies

• First attempt to reduce the power of the king

• First peace treaty with the Native Americans

The French wanted to establish a successful ___________ trade with the Native Americans.

• apple

• slave

• fur

• horse

1st Amendment Freedom

• freedom of religion

• the right to own a gun

• no cruel or unusual punishment

• the right to due process

New England colonies economy:

• tobacco, rice, indigo

• ship building, fishing, trade

• grains

• cash crops

Reason for the outbreak of the American Revolution:

• the French gave guns to the Native Americans

• colonists were sent to reservations

• lands illegally taken from colonists

• taxes imposed on colonists without their consent

Stamp Act:

• tax on all paper goods

• tax on glass

• tax on cash crops

• tax on imported goods

During the American Revolution the Continental Army spent a brutal winter at:

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

• Valley Forge

• Lexington

The 3rd Amendment addresses which grievance?

• quartering of soldiers

• owning a gun

• freedom of religion

• illegal search or seizure of property

Commander of the Continental Army-

• Marquis de LaFayette

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington