Bonus Review

Climate conditions in the southern colonies MOST directly influenced the development of:

• A democratic institutions

• B a canal system

• C the plantation system

• D the coal industry

Which statement best describes a primary source about the colonial era?

• A journal entry by a settler in the Massachusetts Bay colony

• B textbook passage about the settlement of Pennsylvania

• C recent newspaper article commemorating the birth of Patrick Henry

• D television program about the Declaration of Independence

Which term best identifies the ways that people adapt to their environments and adapt their environments to their needs?

• A world in spatial terms

• B human-environment interaction

• C migration

• D places and regions

Which phrase best demonstrates a focus of the study of economics?

• A production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

• B Earth and its relationship to our environment

• C different types of governments and how they operate

• D past cultures of different peoples

The list below identifies three features of colonial America:

Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, New England town meetings

Which title BEST describes the list?

• A Colonial Trade Organizations

• B Self (Representative) - Government in the Colonies

• C First Attempts to Declare Independence

• D Colonists’ Relations with Native Americans

Which statement demonstrates why our country’s founding fathers created a government with three branches?

• To make the United States more like the English government

• To make sure that governing powers are limited

• To make sure one branch would always be more important

• To create more jobs for the people in government

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. —Declaration of Independence 1776

The PRIMARY reason for writing this document was to:

• State grievances (problems) the colonists had against Britain.

• Provide information about trade agreements.

• Establish a new monarchy.

• Encourage the king to move the government to the colonies.

Which map best shows the location of the original 13 colonies?

• Map A

• Map B

• Map C

• Map D

A DIRECT cause of the American Revolution was:

• A being taxed by England without representation.

• B the repeal of the Stamp Act by England.

• C the need for more farmland to the west.

• D losing the French and Indian War.

Which phrase shows the MAIN motivation for the establishment of the colony at Plymouth in 1620?

• A English land owners financed the colonists in order to make a profit.

• B King James paid for their journey in the hope of finding gold.

• C The Pilgrims wished to establish a place where they could follow their own religious beliefs.

• D The settlers were missionaries who intended to dedicate their lives to converting the American Indians to Christianity.