(NG)SS: Ch. 4 Test

Which resource was controlled by Puritan founders and affected the social class of colonists in New England?

• land
• timber
• livestock
• sawmills

Under the Navigation Acts, where did all European goods bound for the American colonies go first?

• Boston
• England
• New York
• West Indies

Which group of people established Harvard College and Yale College?

• Catholics
• Quakers
• Pilgrims
• Puritans

Which statement about Charles Town is NOT true?

• It had a large merchant community.
• Many plantation owners lived there part of the year.
• It was the fourth largest city in the American colonies.
• Much of its trade was controlled by English and New England shippers.

Which statement best describes backcountry settlers?

• They needed a lot of slave labor to clear forests and create farms.
• They were able to make a living with cash crops such as cotton and indigo.
• They lived in cabins, but their life was similar to rich Europeans’ lives.
• They hunted, fished and raised enough crops and livestock to support life.

What turned the grinding stones in gristmills?

• wind
• water
• horses
• farmers

What idea of the ministers of the Great Awakening was similar to that of the philosophers of the Enlightenment?

• People could think for themselves.
• All humans were born with natural rights.
• Reason will win over ignorance, superstition, and unfair rules.
• People were forgetting God and spirituality.

Which person would be allowed to vote in the colonies?

• a woman
• a white, Catholic man
• a white man who owns no land
• a white man who owns a lot of land

Which action was NOT a factor that led to Pontiac’s Rebellion?

• the British limiting what and how much Native Americans could trade
• American settlers moving into the Ohio Valley
• the British ending the French custom of giving Native Americans yearly gifts
• the British giving Native Americans smallpox-infested blankets as gifts

Which event began the French and Indian War?

• the building of Fort Necessity
• Washington’s defeat at Fort Duquesne
• the adoption of the Albany Plan of Union
• the building of a French trading post in the St. Lawrence Valley