Colonial History Quiz

The British government established the Proclamation Line of 1763 mainly to

• avoid conflicts with Native American Indians

• promote the fur trade

• expand the thirteen colonies

• provide access to the Mississippi River

In the thirteen British colonies, voting rights were limited to

• colonists born in America

• men who owned property

• women who could read and write

• people who had come from England

All of the following were goals of the Spanish explorers EXCEPT:

• converting Indians to Christianity

• finding gold

• colonizing new territory

• going to war with Portugal

New England town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses were colonial efforts to

• practice self-government

• form a union of all the colonies

• raise colonial militias

• encourage colonial trade

The development of these five social classes shown to the left in New Spain was a result of

• colonization

• industrialization

• isolationism

• patriotism

Which group experienced the conditions above?

• Pilgrims on the Mayflower

• passengers on the Underground Railroad

• enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage

• Native American Indians traveling with French fur traders

The British system of mercantilism was designed to

• close Boston Harbor to trade

• encourage trade outside the British Empire

• favor the economic interests of Great Britain

• prevent local elections in the thirteen colonies

The Proclamation of 1763

• placed new taxes on colonists

• encouraged colonists to settle on Indian land

• banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

• ended the French and Indian War

What was the major effect of the Stamp Act (1765) on colonial trade?

• The British refused to sell certain products to the colonists

• The law led to a decline in the value of colonial currency

• The colonists no longer needed British goods

• Many colonists boycotted British goods

The Quakers of Pennsylvania believed in religious toleration. This meant that they

• supported government control of religion

• required children to attend religious schools

• refused to join either side in a war

• allowed others to practice their own religion