WorksheetsColonial America/ NC Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why was Massachusetts founded?
a)
To have more job opportunities.
b)
Quakers wanted to found a community based on their religious beliefs.
c)
To escape debtor's prison.
d)
Puritans wanted to create a community based on their religious beliefs.
2.
Why was Maryland founded?
a)
To avoid debtors' prison
b)
To create a safe place for Catholics
c)
To freely practice religion
d)
To have more job opportunities
3.
Who helped the Jamestown colonists?
a)
Pocahontas
b)
Sitting Bull
c)
John White
d)
Pikachu
4.
Why did the Pilgrims come to a new land and form a settlement?
a)
They wanted to be ruled by a king in Great Britain
b)
They wanted freedom to practice their own religion
c)
They wanted to start plantations and earn money
d)
They wanted to learn from the Native Americans
5.
What was the
Mayflower Compact?
Mayflower Compact?
a)
Form of government created by the people of Jamestown
b)
An agreement for self government based on majority rule, written by the Pilgrims
c)
A boat
d)
A charter from King George III
6.
Who won the French and Indian War?
a)
France
b)
Spain
c)
England
d)
Russia
7.
Which colonies have large plantations?
a)
Middle
b)
Southern
c)
New England
d)
Northeast
8.
An economic system in which colonies provided raw materials for their mother countries industries, and then sold finished goods to other countries and their colonies.
a)
Free Enterprise
b)
Communism
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Socialism
9.
Which of the following was the first permanent English settlement of North America?
a)
Plymouth
b)
Roanoke
c)
Youngstown
d)
Jamestown
10.
The House of Burgesses was:
a)
where church services were held.
b)
the first law making assembly in America.
c)
where the King of England lived.
d)
the first building built in Jamestown.
11.
Using the map, which statement would not reflect an impact that the triangular trade route had on cultural diffusion?
a)
Africans brought traditions to the Americas.
b)
Americans brought goods and crops to Europe.
c)
Africans brought cotton and tobacco to the Americas.
d)
Europeans brought textiles and manufactured goods to Africa.
12.
How did the Virginia Company make money?
a)
Selling furs
b)
Selling lumber
c)
Growing and selling tobacco
d)
Growing and selling grain
13.
The French and Indian War was was fought between the
a)
French and the Indians
b)
Indians and the Spanish
c)
French and British against the Indians
d)
The French and Indians against the British and the colonists.
14.
What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?
a)
The French and British claimed the same land.
b)
The French and Indians claimed the same land.
c)
The Indians and British claimed the same land.
d)
The Indians wouldn't sell their land.
15.
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?
a)
France owned the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
b)
Natives owned the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
c)
Colonists could move west of the Appalachian Mountains
d)
Colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains
16.
How was the land divided after the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
a)
Britain got it all when they won the French and Indian War.
b)
The Native Americans got half and Britain got half.
c)
Spain got everything west of the Mississippi and Britain got most of New France.
d)
Spain got half and Great Britain got half.
17.
What was the area west of the Fall Line called in colonial North Carolina?
a)
Lowcountry
b)
Backcountry
c)
Westcountry
d)
Indian Country
18.
What was the name of the path cut from Philadelphia to Georgia called by which settlers made their way to the backcountry of North Carolina?
a)
Great Wagon Road
b)
Cumberland Road
c)
Route 66
d)
Silk Road
19.
Who led the rebellion in colonial Carolina in which acting governor Thomas Miller was jailed by colonists?
a)
John Culpeper
b)
Thomas Eastchurch
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
Thomas Davis
20.
Who was the official artist of Raleigh's first two expeditions to Roanoke and the governor of the third (Lost Colony)?
a)
Ralph Lane
b)
John White
c)
Philip Armadas
d)
George Howe
21.
Who carried out a cannon attack against governor Edward Hyde in 1711?
a)
Thomas Cary
b)
Thomas Eastchurch
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Thomas Miller
22.
Which of the following is an example of how Native Americans were influenced by the Europeans?
a)
Native Americans began using horses
b)
All Native Americans became Catholics
c)
Native Americans began to grow tobacco
d)
Native Americans began to grow potatoes
23.
Which group of people fought against the colonial North Carolina government from 1765 to 1771?
a)
Tuscarora Indians
b)
Regulators
c)
Redcoats
d)
Loyalists
24.
What were initial settlers of Jamestown after?
a)
Homes to start new families
b)
Precious metals and riches
c)
Religious and political freedoms
d)
New land for the Spanish king
25.
What caused many Native Americans to die during the time of the Columbian Exchange?
a)
Diseases
b)
Spoiled Food
c)
Spoiled Meat
d)
War with Europeans
26.
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the start of the Tuscarora War from 1711-1713?
a)
Indians were being captured and sold into slavery
b)
Settlers kept pushing onto Indian lands
c)
Indians were being paid too little to work on tobacco plantations
d)
Indians were being cheated at trade by settlers
27.
Raleigh's third and final colony___________.
a)
included men, women, and children
b)
never ran short of food and supplies
c)
became the first permanent English colony in America
d)
always got along great with the Indians
28.
The Navigation Acts, which were hated by colonial tobacco farmers, forced colonists to send their crop directly to ______________.
a)
New England colonies
b)
England
c)
France
d)
China
29.
High fees, fines and confiscation of personal property by corrupt public officials in the backcountry all led to _________________.
a)
the French and Indian War
b)
the Regulator Movement
c)
the Tuscarora War
d)
the Lost Colony
30.
Which of the following people did NOT immigrate to North Carolina during the colonial period?
a)
Scotch-Irish
b)
Germans
c)
Moravians
d)
Mexicans
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