Worksheets10th Grade Unit 1
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Jamestown's most serious problems in the beginning were
a)
Disease
b)
settlers impracticality and bad attitudes
2.
1st English colonies in North America hope to achieve
a)
political freedom from settlers
b)
financial gain for investors
c)
military supremacy
3.
Pilgrims were ___ who escaped persecution in England and founded Plymouth Colony.
a)
Puritans
b)
Separatists
4.
People known as ____ agreed to a limited term of servitude in exchange for passage to North America as well as food and shelter.
a)
Separatists
b)
Indentured Servants
5.
The development of complex societies in the Americas was first made possible by
a)
development of agriculture
b)
arrival of Europeans
6.
Columbus's voyages to the Americas led to all of the following in Europe except
a)
increased rivalry among nations
b)
availability of new sources of food
c)
support for democratic ideals in government
7.
All of the following resulted from the Atlantic slave trade except
a)
increase in enslaved Native Americans
b)
exportation of slaves from Africa
c)
establishment of sugar-plantation colonies
8.
How was slavery in West Africa different from slavery in the Americas?
a)
West African slaves could escape their bondage
b)
West African slaves were born into slavery
9.
After the Europeans arrived in the Caribbean, what caused the deaths of countless Native Americans
a)
disease
b)
war
10.
What was needed before cities and complex civilizations could develop in the Americas?
a)
plenty of land
b)
large population
c)
surplus of food
11.
Bacon's rebellion resulted from Bacon's sympathy with
a)
English settlers on the frontier
b)
religious separatists
12.
The colony that was founded on principles of social equality and religious tolerance was
a)
Plymouth
b)
Pennsylvania
13.
All of the following were causes of the salem witch trials except
a)
widespread hysteria
b)
spread of Enlightenment ideals
c)
belief in witchcraft
14.
Enlightenment thinkers stressed all of the following except
a)
use of reason
b)
scientific method
c)
unpredictability of nature
15.
Describe the Great Awakening.
a)
Awakening of Patriotism
b)
Awakening of religious belief
c)
Awakening of class division
16.
Benjamin Franklin was an important figure in what movement?
a)
The Enlightenment
b)
The Great Awakening
17.
According to the theory of Mercantilism, a country has a favorable balance of trade when
a)
the value of exports is greater than value of imports
b)
the value of imports is greater than the value of exports
18.
Purpose of Navigation Acts was to
a)
expand colonial trade
b)
restrict colonial trade
c)
strengthen England's navy
19.
As a result of England's policy of "Salutary Neglect", the colonies developed
a)
a disloyal attitude toward Britain
b)
desire for British goods
c)
a desire for self-government
20.
In the late 1600s, the number of enslaved Africans in the South increased dramatically, in part due to a decline in
a)
availability of Native American workers
b)
prices paid for African Slaves
21.
The Middle Passage refers to the part of the transatlantic trade network that carried
a)
rum from the West Indies to New England
b)
Africans from Africa to the West Indies and North America
22.
The Enlightenment was a movement that emphasized the value of
a)
religion
b)
reason
c)
emotions
23.
The Great Awakening cause some colonists to
a)
abandon their Puritan and Anglican congregations
b)
pay more attention to scientific method
24.
Founder of Pennsylvania
a)
John Rolfe
b)
William Penn
25.
Economic system to increase a nation's wealth by increasing exports and decreasing imports
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Colonization
26.
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the Americas
a)
Nomadic
b)
Middle Passage
27.
1st permanent English settlement in North America
a)
Jamestown
b)
Plymouth
28.
1st legislative assembly in America
a)
Congress
b)
House of Burgesses
29.
The act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin
a)
colonization
b)
Columbian Exchange
30.
Line of descendants of a particular ancestry
a)
lineage
b)
Kinship
31.
Roaming about from place to place aimlessly without fixed pattern or movement
a)
nomadic
b)
Kinship
32.
Spanish and Portuguese explorers from 15th-17th centuries
a)
Conquistadors
b)
Encomienda
33.
Labor system in which people paid for their passage to the "New World"
a)
Indentured Servants
b)
Plantation
34.
Usually a large farm of estate on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated by laborers
a)
Community Farms
b)
Plantation
35.
A system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forced loaborers
a)
Encomienda
b)
Indentured Servant
36.
18th century intellectual movement
a)
Great Awakening
b)
Enlightenment
37.
Conflict between New England colonists and Native American groups allied under the leadership of the Wampanoag chief Metacom
a)
King Phillip's War
b)
Pequot War
38.
Members of a group wanting to eliminate all traces of Catholicism from the Church of England
a)
Puritans
b)
Powhatan
39.
1637 conflict between Pequot nation battling Connecticut colonists and their Narragansett allies
a)
Pequot War
b)
King Phillip's War
40.
Group of Native Americans that lived in Eastern Virginia at the time of the first English settlements there
a)
Powhatan
b)
Narragansett
41.
Ties between members of familiy
a)
Lineage
b)
Kinship
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