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SS SLP Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did people migrate from Asia to North America during the Ice Age?

a)

By swimming across the Atlantic Ocean

b)

By flying across the Pacific Ocean

c)

By walking across the Land Bridge

d)

People did not migrate to North America during the Ice Age

2.

What is the Land Bridge Theory?

a)

The Bering Strait froze and people walked across during the Ice Age.

b)

It is a sandbar in the ocean.

c)

Land forms located in the middle of the lake.

d)

There is no Land Bridge Theory.

3.

The _________ was a smaller, faster ship with triangular sails that could sail into the wind.

a)

astrolabe

b)

compass

c)

map key

d)

caravel

4.

The explorer whose ship was the first to sail around the world was _________.

a)

John Cabot

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Henry Hudson

d)

Robert LaSalle

5.

Which explorer landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea and thought he had reached the Indies?

a)

Leif Eriksson

b)

Hernando de Soto

c)

John Cabot

d)

Christopher Columbus

6.

What 2 groups were most negatively affected by the Columbian Exchange?

a)

Asians and Europeans

b)

Africans and Europeans

c)

Asians and Native Americans

d)

Native Americans and Africans

7.

After contact with Europeans in the 1500s, millions of native people in the Americas died as a result of ___________.

a)

New foods that the native people could not digest.

b)

Slavery and the terrible conditions on their journey to America.

c)

New disease which the native people had no immunity.

d)

The freezing cold temperatures from the Ice Age.

8.

What did early English colonists use to govern themselves?

a)

Women's Groups

b)

Town Meetings

c)

The Bill of Rights

d)

Dictatorship

9.

What was the MAIN reason the Puritans, Quakers, and Pilgrims came to the New World?

a)

For freedom of religion

b)

To be treated equally

c)

To have their own land

d)

All choices are correct

10.

Look at the map and answer the question-What is being shown on the map?

a)

The Louisiana Purchase

b)

Triangular Trade route

c)

The sea route taken by Columbus when discovering America

d)

The Bering Strait froze and people walked across during the Ice Age

11.

Look at the political cartoon and answer the question-What is the purpose of the cartoon pictured?

a)

During the war, it was necessary for each colony to fight its own battles.

b)

The colonies have to defeat the British.

c)

Snakes are dangerous.

d)

If the colonies join together, they will be stronger against their enemies.

12.

Why did Britain's Parliament impose taxes on the colonists?

a)

Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.

b)

Britain thought colonists were too wealthy.

c)

The king wanted the colonists to return to Britain.

d)

Britain wanted to give money to the colonists to expand their cities.

13.

Before signing the Declaration of Independence, Ben Franklin warned, "We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately." What did he mean?

a)

If the members of Congress found a traitor among them, they should hang him.

b)

If was too dangerous to sign the Mayflower Compact.

c)

John Hancock was a traitor because he served as president of Congress.

d)

If members of Congress did not stick together against the British, they might all be hanged.

14.

How did the American victory at Saratoga affect the war?

a)

The Americans took control of Lake Champlain.

b)

The British took control of the Hudson Valley.

c)

The British hired more mercenaries.

d)

France joined the war to help the Americans.

15.

One impact of France's defeat in the French and Indian War was:

a)

Native Americans moved west.

b)

Life did not change for Native Americans.

c)

Native Americans lost long standing French allies.

d)

Native Americans became allies with the British.

16.

What was the result of the American victory at Yorktown?

a)

George Washington became the new king.

b)

The British surrendered, ending the war.

c)

France became the new ruler of the colonies.

d)

The Americans were prepared to win the next battle.

17.

Why did so many enslaved African Americans join the Patriots in the fight against the British?

a)

The British army would not take them.

b)

They hoped after the war they would be free.

c)

Peter Salem told them to join the Continental Army.

d)

King George III asked them to be spies for the British.

18.

How are the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution similar?

a)

They both have a court system that makes sure the laws are being followed.

b)

They both have the same number of branches.

c)

They both establish a plan of government.

d)

They both share the powers of the government.

19.

Which branch of government, represented by Congress, is responsible for making, debating, and writing bills which become laws?

a)

Federal

b)

Legislative

c)

Executive

d)

Judicial

20.

What was decided in the Three-Fifths compromise?

a)

Three out of every five slaves counted towards population and taxes.

b)

Three out of every five slaves would be given their freedom.

c)

Three out of every five votes would count in slave states.

d)

Three out of every five people could own slaves.