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Midterm Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

French explorers had ______________ interactions with Native Americans.

a)

competitive

b)

cooperative

c)

violent

d)

no

2.

The first permanent colony was called _______

a)

Lost Colony of Roanoke

b)

Church of England

c)

Jamestown

d)

Bluffton

3.

Town Meetings were an example of direct democracy in which colonial region?

a)

Southern Colonies

b)

New England Colonies

c)

Middle Colonies

d)

Midwestern Colonies

4.

People in the Middle Colonies were more tolerant because...

a)

they were all the same religion

b)

they were all different religions

c)

they came from the same part of Europe

d)

they liked conflict and war

5.

What limited colonists settling in the west after the French and Indian War?

a)

The Proclamation of 1763

b)

The Albany Plan

c)

The Sugar Act

d)

The Intolerable Acts

6.

John Locke stated which of the following 3 beliefs?

a)

People have natural rights to life, liberty & property

b)

It is the people's moral obligation to overthrow an unjust government

c)

all power resides with the government which consents to give it to the people

d)

all power resides with the people, who give their consent to the government

7.

How did Thomas Paine's Common Sense affect people in the colonies?

a)

it forced King George III to impose less taxes

b)

it increased support for independence in the colonies

c)

it caused Thomas Paine to leave the colonies

d)

it increased support for loyalists in the colonies

8.

The Declaration of Independence states that...

a)

the king has the power to make all decisions

b)

a council has the right to make all decisions

c)

the people have ultimate power to make all decisions

d)

the military has the power to overrule any decisions

9.

Which of these 3 were advantages of the colonists during the war?

a)

well disciplined army

b)

alliance with France

c)

familiarity with the land

d)

lack of support for the war in Great Britain

10.

Which of these 3 describe the Articles of Confederation?

a)

3 branches of government

b)

1 branch of government

c)

weak central government

d)

strong central government

e)

1 vote per state

11.

Federalists believed that the United States needed... (3 correct)

a)

a strong central government

b)

an economy based on agriculture

c)

an economy based on trade and manufacturing

d)

states rights

e)

a national bank

12.

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the Virginia Declaration of Rights became...

a)

evidence of treason against their authors

b)

the basis for the Bill of Rights

c)

the foundation of John Locke's philosophy

d)

part of the Articles of Confederation

13.

Which Supreme Court case established Judicial Review

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Gibbons v. Ogden

d)

Cohen v. Virginia

14.

The cotton gin...

a)

decreased the need for slaves in the south

b)

increased the need for slaves in the south

15.

The Missouri Compromise was a way to...

a)

spark arguments between easterners and settlers

b)

balance the number of slave and free states

c)

make Missouri smaller

d)

give more money to poor people

16.

The Monroe Doctrine said that...

a)

Europeans should come colonize the Americas

b)

the Americas were different from Europe

c)

Americans should colonize Europe

d)

slavery made the Americas unique

17.

What kind of Americans supported Andrew Jackson?

a)

rich bankers and business owners

b)

farmers, mechanics and laborers

c)

immigrants from Germany and Ireland

d)

northern factory owners

18.

Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser...

a)

escaped on the Underground Railroad

b)

published an abolitionist newspaper

c)

led slave revolts

d)

won their freedom

19.

The women's suffrage movement wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at...

a)

the Niagara Falls Convention

b)

the Seneca Falls Convention

c)

the Chippewa Falls Convention

d)

the Sioux Falls Convention

20.

According to Abraham Lincoln, the most important goal of the war was to...

a)

end slavery

b)

punish the south for seceding

c)

preserve the union

d)

get southern cotton to northern factories

21.

How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the focus of the war?

a)

it made it clear that tariffs were necessary

b)

it made the elimination of slavery the aim of the north

c)

it freed all the slaves in the United States

d)

it announced that a total war was about the begin

22.

This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.

a)

the Battle of Bull Run

b)

the Battle of Gettysburg

c)

the Battle of Cold Harbor

d)

the Battle of Fort Donelson

23.

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

a)

in Richmond

b)

in Washington DC

c)

in Appomattox

d)

in Charlottesville

24.

Images like this show...

a)

the devastation in the south

b)

the damage in the midwest

c)

the destruction in the north

d)

something else entirely

25.

Images like this show...

a)

strengthening of industry in the north and midwest

b)

new industry in the south after the Civil War