WorksheetsUS History Midterm Exam Review
Total questions: 78
Worksheet time: 39mins
When "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492," where did he think he landed?
Asia
Bahamas
Cuba
Florida
Who traded in the Columbian Exchange?
Australia and the Americas
Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Antarctica and the Americas
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What did the French trade for with Native Americans?
Gold
Silk
Fur
Spices
__________ is the idea that the mother country benefits from colonization.
Reformation
Mercantilism
Exploration
Monarchy
What was the first free African American settlement in the US?
Fort Caroline
Castillo de San Marcos
Fort Matanzas
Fort Mose
Why did children in New England learn how to read and write?
To help them get jobs outside of the home
So that they did not get punished in schools
To be able to read the Bible
So they could read and write for their families
Which of the following is an example of colonial self-government?
Parliament
Town hall meetings
Magna Carta
Salem Witch Trials
Pennsylvania is an example of a(n) _____ colony.
Proprietary
Royal
Spanish
Intolerant
Which region had thin, rocky soil, making farming difficult?
Southern
New England
Middle
None of the above
Which group lived in the Middle Colonies and believed all people were equal?
Catholics
Pilgrims
Puritans
Quakers
What did the Great Awakening represent?
New ideas about freedom
Scientific equations
Renewed belief in civic virtue
A religious revival
Who were settlers that paid for the passage to America by working without pay for a period of time?
Debtors
Quakers
Indentured Servants
Apprentices
Which of the following is NOT a reason colonists died at Jamestown?
Environmental problems
Poor relationship with Natives
Lack of settler skills
Great leadership
What was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion?
Bacon was killed by natives
Slavery replaces indentured servitude
Jamestown refused to pay taxes to the King of England
All the colonies starve
Which part of the Triangular Trade transported African slaves to the Americas?
Northwest Passage
Columbian Exchage
Middle Passage
Southern route
Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies?
Farmers
Merchants
Plantation owners
Teachers
Which crop did Jamestown settlers grow to make a profit?
Cotton
Wheat
Tobacco
Rice
How did the experience of enslaved Africans in the North differ from that of enslaved Africans in the South?
Northern slaves worked as house servants; Southern slaves worked in the fields
The North never allowed slavery
Northern slave owners were harsher to their slaves than in the South
Only Southern and Middle Colonies imposed Slave Codes
Which colonial region was very tolerant and "welcomed with open arms?"
Middle
Southern
New England
Frontier
"The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us ..."
What is the main idea of the quote above?
Treatment of Natives
Slavery in the colonies
Examples of Puritan rituals
Life along the Middle Passage
_____ is the first permanent ENGLISH settlement in the Americas?
Roanoke
Jamestown
Saint Augustine
Plymouth
Why did colonists resist the Navigation Acts?
They resented the King for not giving them a voice in Parliament
Colonists wanted to manufacture their own goods and sell them to other markets
England preferred resources from Africa instead of their own American colonies
The Navigation Acts gave power to only the New England colonies
Rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved people are called ___.
Slave Codes
Middle Passage
Triangular Trade
Plantations
Which two European countries claimed the Backcountry?
France and Spain
England and Spain
England and France
France and Iroquois
What was one of the main causes of the French and Indian War?
British soldiers began to move west into the Appalachian Mountains
Natives began to trade furs with the British
The British began to claim the Ohio River Valley
The British began to build forts
Why was the significance of the Albany Plan of Union?
It showed that Benjamin Franklin would make a great president
It allied France and Great Britain against the Natives
It included the Natives as allies to Great Britain and France
It showed the importance of the colonists united for a greater cause
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 divided North America between which two European powers?
Portugal and France
Spain and France
Great Britain and Netherlands
Great Britain and Spain
The Proclamation of 1763 stated that the colonists could not settle west of _____.
Mississippi River
Appalachian Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
James River
What was the Stamp Act?
A tax on stamps
A tax on all printed materials
A tax on sugar
A tax on imported goods
Why did the Sugar Act anger many colonists?
It raised the tax on sugar
It forced colonists to provide housing for soldiers
It extended writs of assistance without trial by jury
Parliament said "because I said so"
At a meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses, ____ famously said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Which organization was created by Samuel Adams to protest the Stamp Act?
Daughters of Liberty
Redcoats
Sons of Liberty
Effigies
What was significant about the Stamp Act Congress?
The colonists declared independence from Britain
The colonists united for the first time against British taxes
The colonists decided the taxes were fair
The Daughters of Liberty was formed
“That His Majesty’s…subjects in these colonies are entitled to all the…rights and privileges of his natural born subjects in Great Britain.”
~Stamp Act Congress
What "rights and privileges" do the colonists want?
Representation in Parliament
Voting in the next colonial assembly
Representation in the Second Continental Congress
Voting for the next colonial governor
Which act stated that Parliament had complete authority over the colonies "in all cases?"
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
Townsend Act
Which of the following is a tax on imported goods?
Quartering Act
Townsend Act
Declaratory Act
Sugar Act
Which organization formed as a direct result of the Townsend Act to make homemade goods?
Sons of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence
Stamp Act Congress
Daughters of Liberty
Which event was used as propaganda to boost the colonial cause?
Stamp Act Congress
Boston Massacre
Albany Plan of Union
Second Continental Congress
Which term means to end, or cancel?
Propaganda
Repeal
Resolution
Petition
Which group was created to inform colonists of British actions?
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence
Albany Plan of Union
Which act lowered the tax on tea and created a monopoly on tea for the British East India Company?
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
What is another name for the Coercive Acts?
Intolerable Acts
Quartering Act
Townshend Act
Declaratory Act
Which event caused Parliament to pass the Coercive Acts to punish Boston?
Boston Massacre
1st Continental Congress
Boston Tea Party
2nd Continental Congress
How did King George III respond when the Second Continental Congress sends the Olive Branch Petition?
He rejects the Olive Branch Petition
He declares peace with the colonists
The Second Continental Congress writes the US Constitution
The Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor
What was the effect of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
More colonist were Patriots, but changed to Loyalists
More colonists were Neutralists, but changed to Loyalists
More colonists wanted to make peace with the King
More colonists wanted to fight for independence
What is this a picture of?
Sons of Liberty boycotting goods
Colonial resistance to British taxes
British reaction to the Boston Tea Party
British tax collectors using writs of assistance
When did colonists form a Continental Army?
At the Boston Massacre
At the 2nd Continental Congress
At the Boston Tea Party
At the First Continental Congress
Who is the author of "Common Sense?"
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Edison
Who is the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Paine
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
Which of the following is a WEAKNESS of the CONTINENTAL ARMY?
No allies
Poor leadership
Shortage of troops
Costly travel to battles
Who used guerilla warfare to fight?
British
Continental Army
What is the MAIN purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
To list complaints against King George III
To declare separation from Great Britain
To justify remaining loyal to Great Britain
To list reasons for allying with France
In the Declaration of Independence, the words "all men are created equal" refers to:
White males and freed African Americans
White males and white females
White male property owners
Southern white males
Which of the following is a reason the Declaration of Independence gives for separating from Britain?
People have the right to change their government if it is not working for them
Colonists are tired of being taxed and refuse to pay another cent
Taxation without representation should be punished in court
The King deserves everything he is about to get in the war
Who were Hessians?
Native spies
Spanish allies
British mercenaries
French grenadiers
Which Frenchmen fought alongside Washington without pay?
Lord Cornwallis
Marquis de Lafayette
Francis Marion
Baron von Steuben
Which of the following is NOT a reason Saratoga was the turning point of the war?
It was an evenly matched battle that America won
British lost hope of an easy victory
France formally allied with America
Spain declared war on Britain
Why did Washington make winter camp at Valley Forge?
To attack the British in Philadelphia
To remain close to the British in Philadelphia
To be close to the coast when the French arrive
To be near native tribes to gain alliances
What are "summer soldiers" and "sunshine patriots"?
Patriots who turned to join the British
American soldiers who only fight in the summer
Soldiers who desert their post
Loyalists
What were major terms in the Treaty of Paris?
Spain had to give its Canadian territory to Britain
America had to pay back its French and Indian War debt to Britain
France was given control of the North American continent
Britain must recognize American independence
Whiskey Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion
Treaty of Paris 1783
Northwest Ordinance
Which of the following is NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Could add new states to the Union
Could not create a national military
Could not levy taxes
Could not enforce laws
Which of the following combined the New Jersey and Virginia Plans?
Three-Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Great Compromise
Washington D.C.
Which of the following best describes the Three-Fifths Compromise?
African Americans did not count as a whole vote towards representation; instead counted as 3/5.
All African Americans were counted towards representation.
No African Americans were counted towards representation.
States were left to decide how to count African Americans.
Why did George Washington warn against becoming involved in foreign affairs?
Washington did not like foreign trade.
The French were not able to help the US in war against Britain.
The British in the Northwest Territory were US allies.
America is too young and too poor to get involved.
Which term means "to critique the government?"
Nullify
Ratify
Precedent
Sedition
What compromise was made about the new location of the US capital in Washington D.C?
President Washington took the land from his personal property in New York.
Southerners claim the capital in the South in exchange for supporting Hamilton's Financial Plan.
The North did not have to pay off any of its debt or taxes.
Violence from previous rebellions alarmed Americans, so they picked a location far from where the rebellions took place.
What was an outcome of the XYZ Affair?
Americans demanded war with France
France stops impressment
Jay's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty
Which of the following nullified the Alien and Sedition Acts?
XYZ Affair
Jay's Treaty
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Treaty of Paris 1783
An example for future presidents to follow is called a(n) ________:
Neutrality
Precedent
Rebellion
Revolution
What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion?
The federal government proved it had the power to enforce laws
Citizens showed the need for the 1st Amendment
The Articles of Confederation were note effective
Americans demanded war with France
Which of the following is NOT a Federalist concept?
Desire for a strong central government
Expectation of a national bank
Strict interpretation of the Constitution
Support for British trade with the US
Which of the following is NOT a Democratic-Republican concept?
Desire for strong state governments
Strict interpretation of the US Constitution
Economy based on agriculture
Support for British trade
Which term means to legally overturn, or cancel, federal laws that are unconstitutional?
Impressment
Nullify
Ratify
Precedent
Who is the "Father of the Constitution?"
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Which group supported a strong central government and the ratification of the Constitution?
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Republicans
All Founding Fathers
Which of the following is a guarantee to settlers under the Northwest Ordinance?
Freedom of religion
Trial by jury
Ban on slavery
All of the above
Which of the following is NOT a precedent established by President George Washington?
Called "Mr. President
Established a cabinet
Serving one term in office
Remained neutral in foreign affairs
