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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 23mins
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?
New England
Mid-Atlantic
Southern
Which colonial region was started because of religion, had a colder climate, and fishing and shipbuilding were big forms of business?
Southern
Mid-Atlantic
New England
Which of the following is an economic system based getting colonies (like America) and exploiting them for their natural resources?
communism
socialism
mercantilism
facism
Which of the following was the first legislative assembly in America/New World?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Congress
Constitution
House of Burgesses
What was transported from England to the colonies and Africa as part of Trans-Atlantic Trade?
manufactured goods
raw materials
slaves
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
A rebellion over the shortage of bacon
A rebellion over the right to own slaves instead of using indentured servants
Rebellion over a corrupt headright system
A rebellion by poor farmers over the lack of Native American protection and a corrupt indentured servant system
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
class
slavery
Middle Passage
uprising
This is the trade route between the Americas, Africa and Europe in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people
mercantalism
raw materials
Trans-Atlantic Trade
artisan
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.
Town Meetings
The Great Awakening
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
African cultural contributions include:
A-Frame homes, English, spaghetti, etc.
shotgun houses, Gullah & Creole, yams, okra, etc.
colonial homes, Spanish, hamburgers, etc.
cottages, Chinese, hot dogs, etc.
Which colonial region was kind and tolerant to the American Indians?
New England
Mid-Atlantic
Southern
What was the name given to the group that spread information and rallied citizens for the independence movement among the colonists?
Committee of Five
Committee of Correspondence
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Which event contributed to massive British debt, new taxes on the colonists, and the American Revolution?
War of 1812
French Revolution
French & Indian War
Boston Tea Party
Which set of laws were the punishment for the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Sugar Acts
Stamp Acts
Which of the following drew an invisible line prohibiting colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Paris 1783
Northwest Ordinance
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?
salutary neglect
social contract theory
rebellion
Protest group created because of the Stamp Act that was responsible for the Boston Tea Party.
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
Committee of Five
Committee of Correspondence
This was the first direct tax placed on the colonists, it taxed everything paper.
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Molasses Act
Intolerable Acts
The pamphlet was written to convince colonists that they should separate from England.
Thomas Paine's The Crisis
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris 1763
Document that ended French & Indian War, gave England all French territory east of the Mississippi River.
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty of Paris 1793
Proclamation of 1763
What came to be the Mid-Atlantic colonies were originally settled by the ____________________
Dutch
French
English
Spanish
New York was originally called ______________________ when the Dutch controlled it.
New Jersey
Rhode Isand
New Amsterdam
New Delhi
Roger Williams left the Massachusetts Bay Colony to create his own colony in ________________________
New Hampshire
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
