SS 7th grade final review

What was the main reason Europeans began exploring America?

• Avoid cold winters

• Find new trade routes and wealth

• Escape a civil war

• Spread religion

Which explorer is credited with sailing to the Americas in 1492?

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama
• Hernán Cortés
• Ferdinand Magellan

The New England Colonies were known for:

• Plantations and cash crops

• Fishing, shipbuilding, and town meetings

• Desert farming

• Gold mining

What was the main cash crop of the Southern colonies?

• Tobacco
• Sugarcane
• Cotton
• Rice

The middle colonies were often called the:

• Breadbasket colonies
• Fishing colonies
• Industrial colonies
• Plantation colonies

What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

• Stop British trade

• Allow colonists to move West

• Prevent colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains

• Encourage independence

Which event was a protest against British tea taxes?

• Boston Tea Party
• Sons of Liberty Meeting
• Boston Massacre
• Tea Act Repeal

The Declaration of independence was written by:

• First Continental Congress

• Sons of liberty

• Founding fathers

• Second Continental Congress

Who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams

Turning point of American Revolution

• Bunker hill

• Yorktown

• Saratoga

• Trenton