1st 9W DA - Most Missed Questions

Which of the colonies below would NOT fit under the category?

Colonies Founded for Economic Reasons

​ (a)  

• Virginia
• Deleware
• Rhode Island
• New York

How did the practice of slavery influence life in the southern colonies?

**21% chose the distractor

• African-American-owned businesses contributed to colonial wealth.

• An agrarian economy grew due to labor intensive crops like tobacco and rice.

• Textile industries relocated to the South where slavery provided free labor.

• The Southern colonial economy became dependent on European factory owners to provide the labor source.

Which factor most contributed to the creation of the

documents and institutions in this diagram? 

**22% chose the distractor

• The doctrine of the Church of England

• The economic system of mercantilism

• The opportunity for trade with American Indians

• The distance of the colonies from Great Britain

When Jefferson referred to unalienable rights in

the Declaration of Independence, he was describing —

**23% chose the distractor

• liberties belonging to all U.S. citizens.

• natural rights belonging to all humans.

• freedoms given by the local government.

• limitations on the rights of foreign-born citizens.

Mercy Otis Warren and Abigail Adams were in that both women —

(only 53% got this one right, think about it...why would you get this one wrong?)

• wrote a history of the American Revolution.

• worked to persuade people to support the Patriot cause.

• served in the First Continental Congress.

• acted as spies behind the British lines for General Washington.

​​ (a)   marked the adoption of the document that laid out the grievances the colonists had against King George III, and was a demonstration of John Locke's idea of a "social contract".​

**34% got this wrong....no excuses for getting this one wrong

• 1776
• 1607
• 1620
• 1787