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WorksheetsUS History Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What year was Jamestown founded?
a)
1607
b)
1050
c)
1776
d)
1610
2.
Which group of people settled in New York?
a)
Spanish
b)
British
c)
Dutch
d)
French
3.
What did the French settle among the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi river?
a)
French Fur Trade
b)
French Farm Life
c)
French people like being around water
d)
They needed the water supply to be able to survive
4.
Where where the Quakers originally established in the colonies?
a)
Connecticut
b)
Pennsylvania
c)
Rhode Island
d)
Massachusetts
5.
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do to the colonists?
a)
Limited the expansion of the colonists beyond the Appalachian Mountains
b)
Imposed more taxes on the colonists
c)
Determined that colonists had to quarter British troops
d)
Ensured that another Boston Tea Party wouldn't occur
6.
Turning point is to ______________ as Victory is to _______________
a)
Saratoga:Bunker Hill
b)
Yorktown : Saratoga
c)
Saratoga : Valley Forge
d)
Saratoga : Yorktown
7.
Which of the following did Thomas Paine write?
a)
Common Sense
b)
Poor Richard's Almanack
c)
Declaration of Independence
d)
Treaty of Paris of 1783
8.
Which region of the 13 colonies was mostly settled by Puritans?
a)
New England
b)
Middle
c)
Southern
9.
Where did people settle that were debtors? (owed money)
a)
New York
b)
Massachusetts
c)
Viginia
d)
Georgia
10.
What does the word agrarian mean?
a)
Manufacturing
b)
Slave labor
c)
Farming lifestyle
d)
Economy based on trade
11.
What was a significant effect of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
a)
France decides not to copy the American Revolution
b)
Native Americans were given all the land west of the Mississippi
c)
The colonies were recognized as independent
d)
Spain took control over all the colonies in the Southern region
12.
Which is not guaranteed within the first amendment?
a)
Religion
b)
Speech
c)
Press
d)
Happiness
13.
What is the 2nd amendment?
a)
Right to bear arms
b)
Right to a speedy trial
c)
Right to not quarter troops
d)
Freedom of Speech
14.
What is the 3rd amendment?
a)
Right to bear arms
b)
Right to a speedy trial
c)
Right to a jury of peers
d)
Right to not quarter troops
15.
What is the 4th amendment?
a)
Right to bear arms
b)
Search warrants must be obtained
c)
Right to a speedy trial
d)
Right to a jury of peers
16.
What is the 5th amendment?
a)
Right to a speedy trial
b)
Right to not self-incriminate (remain silent)
c)
Right to a speedy trial
d)
Right to vote
17.
When was the Constitution written? September 17, _________
a)
1788
b)
1786
c)
1790
d)
1787
18.
What was the issue the three-fifths compromise was addressing?
a)
Whether or not population would be a factor in representation for legislature
b)
Counting enslaved people for representation
c)
Money that went towards each state's debt
d)
the amount of people it took to pass a law
19.
What was one issue with the Articles of Confederation?
a)
Central government was too weak
b)
Each state had their own currency
c)
The military was weakened
d)
All of the above
20.
How did delegates at the Constitutional Convention settle the dispute between those that supported EITHER the Virginia Plan OR the New Jersey Plan?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Federalism
c)
Great Compromise
d)
3/5 Compromise
21.
The Spanish, English, and French all sponsored voyages to the New World that prompted discovery and colonization. Identify which economic reason these individuals had for leaving their homelands.
a)
The possibility of gaining wealth through acquiring gold or title.
b)
The political unrest in their own countries.
c)
To prove the world was round.
d)
The lack of religious freedom in their own countries.
22.
The voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas was known as the -
a)
Northwest Passage
b)
African Diaspora
c)
Triangular Trade
d)
Middle Passage
23.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the greatest amount of power was in the hands of the -
a)
Congress
b)
can people
c)
national government
d)
states
24.
During the Age of Exploration, Europe looked for sea routes to the East in order to __________.
a)
find a faster trade route to Asia
b)
spread Christianity
c)
colonize new territories
d)
gain military advantage
25.
America was first known as the ______________ to Europeans.
a)
United States
b)
New World
c)
Atlanta
d)
Canada
26.
___________ was the first European to reach America in 1492, he had 3 ships on his voyage: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
a)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
John Cabot
d)
Amerigo Vespucci
27.
Which was NOT a European motive for exploration?
a)
wealth
b)
religious conversion
c)
spread disease
d)
economic opportunity
28.
Which of the was NOT an impact on Native Americans by the early explorers?
a)
Native Americans lost their land.
b)
Native Americans were killed by European diseases.
c)
Native American people were forced to become slaves.
d)
Native American tribes fought for their land and kept it.
29.
Identify the Great Plains region using the map
a)
Green
b)
Yellow
c)
Pink
d)
Blue
30.
As semi-nomadic people, the Native Americans of the Great Plains followed this big game as they hunted them for food
a)
Moose
b)
Wolf
c)
Bear
d)
Buffalo
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