American History The Colonies Develop Review

1. The great Enlightenment thinker John Locke argued that people have

• 1. A moral obligation to their king

• 1. Certain rights that governments must protect

• 1. Inner religious emotions

• 1. Inner sovereignty

1. The Albany Plan of Union was the 

• 1. First formal proposal to unite the colonies

• 1. Journal published by John Peter Zenger

• 1. Right to complain to the king or queen in Parliament

• 1. Colonists’ model for representative government

1. Who benefited from the Magna Carta?

• 1. Women and children

• 1. Nobles and freemen

• 1. Indentured servants and slaves

• 1. All English people

1. What did the Enlightenment emphasize as the paths to knowledge?

• 1. Reason and science

• 1. Religion and prayer

• 1. Hard work and education

• 1. Art and humanities

1. The first formal plan to unite the colonies was proposed by

• 1. Edmund Andros

• 1. George Whitefield

• 1. Benjamin Franklin

• 1. Johnathan Edwards

1. The Glorious Revolution played a part in

• 1. The easing of tensions between the colonists and the English government

• 1. The king acquiring nobles’ money to finance the French and Indian War

• 1. The end of smuggling and piracy in the English colonies

• 1. The loss of the colonists’ right to representation in Parliament

1. Which of the following was forbidden under the English Bill of Rights

• 1. Frequent meetings of Parliament

• 1. Complaints against the king or queen in Parliament

• 1. Canceling of taxes by the monarch

• 1. Excessive fines and cruel punishments

1. Which of the following was an effect of the French and Indian War?

• 1. Colonists thought they had won the right to settle the Hudson River valley

• 1. Native Americans formed military alliances with European fur traders 

• 1. Britain forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• 1. France increased its control of territory in North America

1. What two elements gave colonial farmers a chance to prosper?

• 1. Native American assistance and the fur trade

• 1. Apprenticeships and English assistance

• 1. Cheap farmland and abundant natural resources

• 1. Religious freedom and the Great Awakening

1.  In the social ranks of colonial life, what position did owners of small farms hold?

• 1. They were considered part of the aristocracy

• 1. They were of the same rank as their parents

• 1. They were part of a large middle class

• 1. They were of the same rank as landless servants