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US History Midterm Exam Review

Total questions: 78

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492," where did he think he landed?

a)

Asia

b)

Bahamas

c)

Cuba

d)

Florida

2.

Who traded in the Columbian Exchange?

a)

Australia and the Americas

b)

Northern and Southern Hemispheres

c)

Antarctica and the Americas

d)

Eastern and Western Hemispheres

3.

What did the French trade for with Native Americans?

a)

Gold

b)

Silk

c)

Fur

d)

Spices

4.

__________ is the idea that the mother country benefits from colonization.

a)

Reformation

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Exploration

d)

Monarchy

5.

What was the first free African American settlement in the US?

a)

Fort Caroline

b)

Castillo de San Marcos

c)

Fort Matanzas

d)

Fort Mose

6.

Why did children in New England learn how to read and write?

a)

To help them get jobs outside of the home

b)

So that they did not get punished in schools

c)

To be able to read the Bible

d)

So they could read and write for their families

7.

Which of the following is an example of colonial self-government?

a)

Parliament

b)

Town hall meetings

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Salem Witch Trials

8.

Pennsylvania is an example of a(n) _____ colony.

a)

Proprietary

b)

Royal

c)

Spanish

d)

Intolerant

9.

Which region had thin, rocky soil, making farming difficult?

a)

Southern

b)

New England

c)

Middle

d)

None of the above

10.

Which group lived in the Middle Colonies and believed all people were equal?

a)

Catholics

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Puritans

d)

Quakers

11.

What did the Great Awakening represent?

a)

New ideas about freedom

b)

Scientific equations

c)

Renewed belief in civic virtue

d)

A religious revival

12.

Who were settlers that paid for the passage to America by working without pay for a period of time?

a)

Debtors

b)

Quakers

c)

Indentured Servants

d)

Apprentices

13.

Which of the following is NOT a reason colonists died at Jamestown?

a)

Environmental problems

b)

Poor relationship with Natives

c)

Lack of settler skills

d)

Great leadership

14.

What was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion?

a)

Bacon was killed by natives

b)

Slavery replaces indentured servitude

c)

Jamestown refused to pay taxes to the King of England

d)

All the colonies starve

15.

Which part of the Triangular Trade transported African slaves to the Americas?

a)

Northwest Passage

b)

Columbian Exchage

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Southern route

16.

Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies?

a)

Farmers

b)

Merchants

c)

Plantation owners

d)

Teachers

17.

Which crop did Jamestown settlers grow to make a profit?

a)

Cotton

b)

Wheat

c)

Tobacco

d)

Rice

18.

How did the experience of enslaved Africans in the North differ from that of enslaved Africans in the South?

a)

Northern slaves worked as house servants; Southern slaves worked in the fields

b)

The North never allowed slavery

c)

Northern slave owners were harsher to their slaves than in the South

d)

Only Southern and Middle Colonies imposed Slave Codes

19.

Which colonial region was very tolerant and "welcomed with open arms?"

a)

Middle

b)

Southern

c)

New England

d)

Frontier

20.

"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?

a)

Treatment of Natives

b)

Slavery in the colonies

c)

Examples of Puritan rituals

d)

Life along the Middle Passage

21.

_____ is the first permanent ENGLISH settlement in the Americas?

a)

Roanoke

b)

Jamestown

c)

Saint Augustine

d)

Plymouth

22.

Why did colonists resist the Navigation Acts?

a)

They resented the King for not giving them a voice in Parliament

b)

Colonists wanted to manufacture their own goods and sell them to other markets

c)

England preferred resources from Africa instead of their own American colonies

d)

The Navigation Acts gave power to only the New England colonies

23.

Rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved people are called ___.

a)

Slave Codes

b)

Middle Passage

c)

Triangular Trade

d)

Plantations

24.

Which two European countries claimed the Backcountry?

a)

France and Spain

b)

England and Spain

c)

England and France

d)

France and Iroquois

25.

What was one of the main causes of the French and Indian War?

a)

British soldiers began to move west into the Appalachian Mountains

b)

Natives began to trade furs with the British

c)

The British began to claim the Ohio River Valley

d)

The British began to build forts

26.

Why was the significance of the Albany Plan of Union?

a)

It showed that Benjamin Franklin would make a great president

b)

It allied France and Great Britain against the Natives

c)

It included the Natives as allies to Great Britain and France

d)

It showed the importance of the colonists united for a greater cause

27.

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 divided North America between which two European powers?

a)

Portugal and France

b)

Spain and France

c)

Great Britain and Netherlands

d)

Great Britain and Spain

28.

The Proclamation of 1763 stated that the colonists could not settle west of _____.

a)

Mississippi River

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

James River

29.

What was the Stamp Act?

a)

A tax on stamps

b)

A tax on all printed materials

c)

A tax on sugar

d)

A tax on imported goods

30.

Why did the Sugar Act anger many colonists?

a)

It raised the tax on sugar

b)

It forced colonists to provide housing for soldiers

c)

It extended writs of assistance without trial by jury

d)

Parliament said "because I said so"

31.

At a meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses, ____ famously said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

a)

Samuel Adams

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

John Adams

d)

Patrick Henry

32.

Which organization was created by Samuel Adams to protest the Stamp Act?

a)

Daughters of Liberty

b)

Redcoats

c)

Sons of Liberty

d)

Effigies

33.

What was significant about the Stamp Act Congress?

a)

The colonists declared independence from Britain

b)

The colonists united for the first time against British taxes

c)

The colonists decided the taxes were fair

d)

The Daughters of Liberty was formed

34.

“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?

a)

Representation in Parliament

b)

Voting in the next colonial assembly

c)

Representation in the Second Continental Congress

d)

Voting for the next colonial governor

35.

Which act stated that Parliament had complete authority over the colonies "in all cases?"

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Quartering Act

c)

Declaratory Act

d)

Townsend Act

36.

Which of the following is a tax on imported goods?

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Townsend Act

c)

Declaratory Act

d)

Sugar Act

37.

Which organization formed as a direct result of the Townsend Act to make homemade goods?

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

Committees of Correspondence

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Daughters of Liberty

38.

Which event was used as propaganda to boost the colonial cause?

a)

Stamp Act Congress

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Albany Plan of Union

d)

Second Continental Congress

39.

Which term means to end, or cancel?

a)

Propaganda

b)

Repeal

c)

Resolution

d)

Petition

40.

Which group was created to inform colonists of British actions?

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

Daughters of Liberty

c)

Committees of Correspondence

d)

Albany Plan of Union

41.

Which act lowered the tax on tea and created a monopoly on tea for the British East India Company?

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Quartering Act

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Tea Act

42.

What is another name for the Coercive Acts?

a)

Intolerable Acts

b)

Quartering Act

c)

Townshend Act

d)

Declaratory Act

43.

Which event caused Parliament to pass the Coercive Acts to punish Boston?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

1st Continental Congress

c)

Boston Tea Party

d)

2nd Continental Congress

44.

How did King George III respond when the Second Continental Congress sends the Olive Branch Petition?

a)

He rejects the Olive Branch Petition

b)

He declares peace with the colonists

c)

The Second Continental Congress writes the US Constitution

d)

The Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor

45.

What was the effect of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

a)

More colonist were Patriots, but changed to Loyalists

b)

More colonists were Neutralists, but changed to Loyalists

c)

More colonists wanted to make peace with the King

d)

More colonists wanted to fight for independence

46.

What is this a picture of?

a)

Sons of Liberty boycotting goods

b)

Colonial resistance to British taxes

c)

British reaction to the Boston Tea Party

d)

British tax collectors using writs of assistance

47.

When did colonists form a Continental Army?

a)

At the Boston Massacre

b)

At the 2nd Continental Congress

c)

At the Boston Tea Party

d)

At the First Continental Congress

48.

Who is the author of "Common Sense?"

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Thomas Hutchinson

d)

Thomas Edison

49.

Who is the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Thomas Paine

b)

John Adams

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Hancock

50.

Which of the following is a WEAKNESS of the CONTINENTAL ARMY?

a)

No allies

b)

Poor leadership

c)

Shortage of troops

d)

Costly travel to battles

51.

Who used guerilla warfare to fight?

a)

British

b)

Continental Army

52.

What is the MAIN purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

To list complaints against King George III

b)

To declare separation from Great Britain

c)

To justify remaining loyal to Great Britain

d)

To list reasons for allying with France

53.

In the Declaration of Independence, the words "all men are created equal" refers to:

a)

White males and freed African Americans

b)

White males and white females

c)

White male property owners

d)

Southern white males

54.

Which of the following is a reason the Declaration of Independence gives for separating from Britain?

a)

People have the right to change their government if it is not working for them

b)

Colonists are tired of being taxed and refuse to pay another cent

c)

Taxation without representation should be punished in court

d)

The King deserves everything he is about to get in the war

55.

Who were Hessians?

a)

Native spies

b)

Spanish allies

c)

British mercenaries

d)

French grenadiers

56.

Which Frenchmen fought alongside Washington without pay?

a)

Lord Cornwallis

b)

Marquis de Lafayette

c)

Francis Marion

d)

Baron von Steuben

57.

Which of the following is NOT a reason Saratoga was the turning point of the war?

a)

It was an evenly matched battle that America won

b)

British lost hope of an easy victory

c)

France formally allied with America

d)

Spain declared war on Britain

58.

Why did Washington make winter camp at Valley Forge?

a)

To attack the British in Philadelphia

b)

To remain close to the British in Philadelphia

c)

To be close to the coast when the French arrive

d)

To be near native tribes to gain alliances

59.

What are "summer soldiers" and "sunshine patriots"?

a)

Patriots who turned to join the British

b)

American soldiers who only fight in the summer

c)

Soldiers who desert their post

d)

Loyalists

60.

What were major terms in the Treaty of Paris?

a)

Spain had to give its Canadian territory to Britain

b)

America had to pay back its French and Indian War debt to Britain

c)

France was given control of the North American continent

d)

Britain must recognize American independence

61.
a)

Whiskey Rebellion

b)

Shay's Rebellion

c)

Treaty of Paris 1783

d)

Northwest Ordinance

62.

Which of the following is NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

a)

Could add new states to the Union

b)

Could not create a national military

c)

Could not levy taxes

d)

Could not enforce laws

63.

Which of the following combined the New Jersey and Virginia Plans?

a)

Three-Fifths Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Great Compromise

d)

Washington D.C.

64.

Which of the following best describes the Three-Fifths Compromise?

a)

African Americans did not count as a whole vote towards representation; instead counted as 3/5.

b)

All African Americans were counted towards representation.

c)

No African Americans were counted towards representation.

d)

States were left to decide how to count African Americans.

65.

Why did George Washington warn against becoming involved in foreign affairs?

a)

Washington did not like foreign trade.

b)

The French were not able to help the US in war against Britain.

c)

The British in the Northwest Territory were US allies.

d)

America is too young and too poor to get involved.

66.

Which term means "to critique the government?"

a)

Nullify

b)

Ratify

c)

Precedent

d)

Sedition

67.

What compromise was made about the new location of the US capital in Washington D.C?

a)

President Washington took the land from his personal property in New York.

b)

Southerners claim the capital in the South in exchange for supporting Hamilton's Financial Plan.

c)

The North did not have to pay off any of its debt or taxes.

d)

Violence from previous rebellions alarmed Americans, so they picked a location far from where the rebellions took place.

68.

What was an outcome of the XYZ Affair?

a)

Americans demanded war with France

b)

France stops impressment

c)

Jay's Treaty

d)

Pinckney's Treaty

69.

Which of the following nullified the Alien and Sedition Acts?

a)

XYZ Affair

b)

Jay's Treaty

c)

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

d)

Treaty of Paris 1783

70.

An example for future presidents to follow is called a(n) ________:

a)

Neutrality

b)

Precedent

c)

Rebellion

d)

Revolution

71.

What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion?

a)

The federal government proved it had the power to enforce laws

b)

Citizens showed the need for the 1st Amendment

c)

The Articles of Confederation were note effective

d)

Americans demanded war with France

72.

Which of the following is NOT a Federalist concept?

a)

Desire for a strong central government

b)

Expectation of a national bank

c)

Strict interpretation of the Constitution

d)

Support for British trade with the US

73.

Which of the following is NOT a Democratic-Republican concept?

a)

Desire for strong state governments

b)

Strict interpretation of the US Constitution

c)

Economy based on agriculture

d)

Support for British trade

74.

Which term means to legally overturn, or cancel, federal laws that are unconstitutional?

a)

Impressment

b)

Nullify

c)

Ratify

d)

Precedent

75.

Who is the "Father of the Constitution?"

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

James Madison

d)

Alexander Hamilton

76.

Which group supported a strong central government and the ratification of the Constitution?

a)

Federalists

b)

Anti-Federalists

c)

Republicans

d)

All Founding Fathers

77.

Which of the following is a guarantee to settlers under the Northwest Ordinance?

a)

Freedom of religion

b)

Trial by jury

c)

Ban on slavery

d)

All of the above

78.

Which of the following is NOT a precedent established by President George Washington?

a)

Called "Mr. President

b)

Established a cabinet

c)

Serving one term in office

d)

Remained neutral in foreign affairs