United States History Part 1 Test

For each question, select the letter that best answers the question. 1. Jamestown, the first English colony in North America, was set up in the hope of achieving:

• financial gain for investors.

• political freedom for settlers.

• religious freedom for settlers.

• military supremacy for England.

William Penn made a treaty with Native Americans in this region to ensure peaceful relations.

• New England

• The Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Jamestown

The "triangular trade" could best be described as a network of trade routes connecting:

• A. England, Europe, and Africa.

• B. England and the West Indies.

• C. the Northern and Southern colonies.

• D. the colonies, West Indies, England, Europe, and Africa.

A cash crop like the tobacco seen above is one that is raised primarily for:

• sale.

• food.

• a farmer's own use.

• a colony's home country.

The Puritans' views and attitudes led them to promote the idea of:

• social equality.

• religious tolerance.

• hard work for common goals.

• separation of church and state.

The colony that was founded on principles of social equality and religious tolerance was:

• Plymouth.

• New York.

• Pennsylvania.

• Massachusetts Bay.

The Great Awakening caused some colonists to:

• seek spirituality using reason.

• shift their loyalty from England to America.

• pay more attention to the scientific method.

• abandon their Puritan and Anglican congregations.

With the Proclamation of 1763, the British government attempted to:

• stop settlement west of the Appalachians.

• encourage settlement west of the Appalachians.

• force France off the North American continent.

• claim Canada and North America east of the Mississippi.

At which event were the first shots fired between redcoats and minutemen?

• Boston Massacre

• Lexington & Concord

• Battle of Monmouth

• Battle of Bunker Hill

Who wrote a pamphlet seen above, titled Common Sense, arguing that the time had come for American independence?

• General Thomas Gage

• John Locke

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Paine