WorksheetsSGOPrep(7thGrade)
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
A source produced at the time or shortly after an historical event (usually by someone who was directly involved)
Secondary Source
Primary Source
Credible Source
Biased Source
A source produced longer after an historical event (usually by someone who was not personally involved)
Secondary Source
Primary Source
Credible Source
Biased Source
Select the examples of primary sources
A digital textbook dedicated to the American Revolution
The original text of the Declaration of Independence
A 21st-century movie about the Civil War
The journal entries of Christopher Columbus
The phrase “The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic Ocean” could describe a time:
Of successful civilizations but no way or reason to travel across the Atlantic Ocean
Of closed door policy, when no one would allow others to enter their country
Of no Atlantic Ocean existing (the time before the ocean formed naturally)
None of the above
Select all of the European countries who established colonies/settled land in the Americas during the Age of Exploration
Spain
Portugal
England (Great Britain)
France
Which of the following would be an example of the most positive effect resulting from the Columbian Exchange?
New diseases were spread to different parts of the world
Europeans became much better at making maps
Europeans became much better at making ships
New sources of food (crops, animals) were shared between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
The most negative effect of the Columbian Exchange was that new types of BLANK were also spread throughout the world, which people were not immune to.
(a)
In Jamestown (and eventually all of Virginia), this eventually became the first example of a “cash-crop” produced in colonial America;
Cotton
Rice
Tea
Tobacco
Which was NOT a challenge faced by the settlers of Jamestown?
Most colonists did not know how to work, and the soil was very swampy and poor for farming many crops
Malaria was a widespread disease because of mosquitoes
Local Native Americans were suspicious and often violent
The French often tried to invade the country
The “Middle Passage” refers to the part of the transatlantic trade network that carried..
Africans from the West Indies to North America
Raw materials from the 13 colonies to England (or Great Britain)
Africans from Africa to the West Indies and/or North America
None of the above
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Declared all nations are independent from each other
Declared the American colonies are independent from England
Declared slaves are free from their owners
All of the above
After the British enact the Tea Act, angry colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Massacre
Lexington and Concord
Boston Tea Party
Battle of Yorktown
Tension develops over shipbuilding jobs between colonists and British soldiers; 4 colonists shot and killed by British soldiers
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act
Townshend Act
Boston Massacre
The King’s response to the Boston Tea Party; shut down Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, allowed British troops to be quartered in colonial homes
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Act
British tax on items such as dice, playing cards, newspapers, marriage licenses, etc.
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts
British tax on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Act
Bennie Franks Act
Which of the following could not be considered a cause of the American Revolution?
British taxes and policies (laws)
The Battle of Yorktown
The French and Indian War
The Proclamation of 1763
The system that divides power between the national (United States) government and the state governments is known as
Reserved Powers
Delegated Powers
Checks and Balances
The Federal System
Our Constitution can never be changed, it was written and needs to be followed
False
True
Talse
Frue
