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Domain 1 Part 1

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which colonial region was established for economic reasons, agriculture such as tobacco, used slavery extensively, and its relationship with American Indians started peacefully but grew more violent as more settlers arrived?

a)

New England

b)

Mid-Atlantic

c)

Southern

2.

Which colonial region was started because of religion, had a colder climate, and fishing and shipbuilding were big forms of business?

a)

Southern

b)

Mid-Atlantic

c)

New England

3.

Which of the following is an economic system based getting colonies (like America) and exploiting them for their natural resources?

a)

communism

b)

socialism

c)

mercantilism

d)

facism

4.
A plant that is sold for a profit is a
a)
cash crop
b)
subsistence crop
c)
corn field
d)
benefit crop
5.

Which of the following was the first legislative assembly in America/New World?

a)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

b)

Congress

c)

Constitution

d)

House of Burgesses

6.

What was transported from England to the colonies and Africa as part of Trans-Atlantic Trade?

a)

manufactured goods

b)

raw materials

c)

slaves

7.

What was Bacon's Rebellion?

a)

A rebellion over the shortage of bacon

b)

A rebellion over the right to own slaves instead of using indentured servants

c)

Rebellion over a corrupt headright system

d)

A rebellion by poor farmers over the lack of Native American protection and a corrupt indentured servant system

8.

This is the part of the Trans-Atlantic trade route in which captured and enslaved Africans were sent by ship, under terrible conditions, to be sold to the Americas

a)

class

b)

slavery

c)

Middle Passage

d)

uprising

9.

This is the trade route between the Americas, Africa and Europe in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people

a)

mercantalism

b)

raw materials

c)

Trans-Atlantic Trade

d)

artisan

10.

A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s-1740s that lead to revivals and the spread of religious beliefs, also led colonists to question traditional authority.

a)

Town Meetings

b)

The Great Awakening

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Enlightenment

11.

African cultural contributions include:

a)

A-Frame homes, English, spaghetti, etc.

b)

shotgun houses, Gullah & Creole, yams, okra, etc.

c)

colonial homes, Spanish, hamburgers, etc.

d)

cottages, Chinese, hot dogs, etc.

12.

Which colonial region was kind and tolerant to the American Indians?

a)

New England

b)

Mid-Atlantic

c)

Southern

13.

What was the name given to the group that spread information and rallied citizens for the independence movement among the colonists?

a)

Committee of Five

b)

Committee of Correspondence

c)

Federalists

d)

Anti-Federalists

14.

Which event contributed to massive British debt, new taxes on the colonists, and the American Revolution?

a)

War of 1812

b)

French Revolution

c)

French & Indian War

d)

Boston Tea Party

15.

Which set of laws were the punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

b)

Sugar Acts

c)

Stamp Acts

16.

Which of the following drew an invisible line prohibiting colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?

a)

Proclamation of 1763

b)

Treaty of Paris 1763

c)

Treaty of Paris 1783

d)

Northwest Ordinance

17.

When Great Britain did not enforce trade laws and gave the colonies more freedom, the colonists started governing themselves. Then Great Britain started to enforce laws which angered the colonists.


What term do we use to refer to this event?

a)

salutary neglect

b)

social contract theory

c)

rebellion

18.

Protest group created because of the Stamp Act that was responsible for the Boston Tea Party.

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

Daughters of Liberty

c)

Committee of Five

d)

Committee of Correspondence

19.

This was the first direct tax placed on the colonists, it taxed everything paper.

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Molasses Act

d)

Intolerable Acts

20.

The pamphlet was written to convince colonists that they should separate from England.

a)

Thomas Paine's The Crisis

b)

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Treaty of Paris 1763

21.

Document that ended French & Indian War, gave England all French territory east of the Mississippi River.

a)

Treaty of Paris 1763

b)

Treaty of Paris 1783

c)

Treaty of Paris 1793

d)

Proclamation of 1763

22.

What came to be the Mid-Atlantic colonies were originally settled by the ____________________

a)

Dutch

b)

French

c)

English

d)

Spanish

23.

New York was originally called ______________________ when the Dutch controlled it.

a)

New Jersey

b)

Rhode Isand

c)

New Amsterdam

d)

New Delhi

24.

Roger Williams left the Massachusetts Bay Colony to create his own colony in ________________________

a)

New Hampshire

b)

Virginia

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Rhode Island