First Semester Benchmark Test 2025

___________ both had groups who settled in North America to escape religious freedom

• France and Spain

• Spain and Great Britain

• Great Britain and France

___________ both had missionaries who wanted to convert American Indians to Catholicism,

• France and Spain

• Spain and Great Britain

• Great Britain and France

Why did an African slave trade develop in the southern colonies of North America?

• A new enslaved labor force was needed on plantations when local people refused to keep working on them.

• A new enslaved labor force was needed on plantations when the fur trade became big business.

• A new enslaved labor force was needed on plantations when the original cash crops failed.

• A new enslaved labor force was needed on plantations when European diseases killed large numbers of indigenous people.

How did Great Britain use the policy of mercantilism?

• Great Britain passed the Navigation Acts to make a profit from the slave trade.

• Great Britain controlled colonial trade to secure profits and markets for British goods.

• Great Britain smuggled colonial goods out of the colonies to avoid paying colonial taxes.

• Great Britain determined what cash crops would be allowed on colonial plantations.

Why did the Ohio River Valley become a scene of rivalry and conflict?

• Both France and the American Indians wanted to control the area and chase the other away.

• Both France and Great Britain gained land there as part of the Treaty of Paris.

• Both Great Britain and the American Indians gained land there as part of the Proclamation of 1763.

• Both France and Great Britain wanted to control the land and chase the other away.

How did the Treaty of Paris of 1763 affect the colonial powers in North America?

• French and Spanish colonies grew in North America.

• France gave up all of its North American colonies and Great Britain gave up Florida.

• French and English colonies grew in North America.

• France gave up all of its North American colonies.

How did colonists react to the Proclamation of 1763?

• They supported British policy and paid the new taxes the king ordered.

• They resisted British policy and stayed in areas west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• They resisted British policy and refused to pay the new taxes the king ordered.

• They supported British policy and left the areas west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Boston Massacre began when a group of __________ were arguing with some British soldiers.

• American Indians

• Colonists

• French mercenaries

• Canadian fur traders

At the Boston Massacre, five colonists were __________ by British officers.

• captured

• killed

• recruited

• imprisoned

What law forced American colonists to pay a tax on nearly all official documents and papers in America?

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Quartering Act