US History Review Quiz

What was the first successful English Colony in America?

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Hudson Bay

• Newfoundland

Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons people began to settle in the colonies?

• To escape religious persecution and have the ability to practice any religion

• To find new life and new opportunity

• To establish trade with the Native Americans

• They were forced as a slave or indentured servant

Which one was NOT one of John Locke's arguments in the Second Treatise of Government?

• Government is formed by people voluntarily coming together

• People have a right to overthrow a government not serving them

• There is no government that has too much power

• Government exists to serve the people

Which one was NOT one of the breakthroughs made by early Native American society?

• Crop rotation

• Separation of church and state

• Gender equity

• Representative democracy

What was the goal of Common Sense?

• To encourage colonists to think before making decisions

• To encourage colonists to forgive the king

• To convince colonists they could not repair their relationship with the monarchy

• That Great Britain was increasingly better than the colonies

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A sign in sheet as colonists arrived from Great Britain

• An agreement that entering colonists would follow the will of the majority

• An agreement that colonists would help to keep the Mayflower ship in working condition

• An agreement that new colonists signed to show their dislike towards the King

What was the goal of the California mission system?

• To build homes for Native Americans

• For the Spanish to take over new territory in California

• To convert Native Americans to Catholicism

• To create private schools for Native American children

What did the Declaration of Independence signify?

• That new colonists would be moving to join them.

• That the Founding Fathers could write an important document

• America's formal break up with Great Britain

• The beginning of a new relationship with Great Britain

Which of the following describes John Locke's Social Contract theory?

• You agree to go to work for the government, in return you receive order and protection

• You agree to pay taxes to the government, in return you receive order and protection

• Society agrees to create and live under a government that makes and enforces laws

• Society agrees to overthrow a government and create a new one every hundred years

Which one was NOT a cause of the Revolution?

• Colonists began to have more loyalty to the colonies than to the king

• Colonists had created their own colonial governments and town meetings

• The king taxed the colonists without representation

• The king had requested the colonists to send over their cash crop to the British without payment