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Worksheetslife in the colonies - colonial tensions
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who acquired French lands west of the Mississippi River, called "Louisiana", and the port of New Orleans due to the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
France
Spain
Portugal
England
The Exchange of goods and ideas between the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas is known as. ..
a. Marco Polo
b. World Trades Commission
c. Trans Atlantic Traders
d. Columbian Exchange
What series of laws did England pass to enforce their mercantilist policies over the American colonies?
a. The fall of Quebec
b. Navigation Acts
c. Fort Necessity
d. The Proclamation of 1763
WHICH of these is not an example of Mercantilism?
a. Gain wealth by building supplies of gold and silver
b. export more than they import
c. Purchase manufactured goods from your colonies
d. establish colonies that supply raw materials and also buy manufactured goods from the colonial power (like England)
Where were George Washington's troops defeated that marked the start of the French and Indian War?
a. Fort Necessity
b. Fort Worth
c. Fort Vespucci
d. Fort Cortes
Who developed a unique culture based on the languages, customs, and religions of their African homelands?
a. English Monarchs
b. Slaves
c. Indentured Servants
d. Iroquois Confederacy
Which one of these states was not one of the New England Colonies?
a. Connecticut
b. Rhode Island
c. Virginia
d. Massachusetts
Who was the most powerful group of Native Americans in eastern North America, who also chose to remain neutral in the French and Indian War?
a. The Spanish Armada
b. The Iroquois Confederacy
c. The Apache
d. Enslaved Africans
What governed the behavior and punishment of enslaved peoples?
a) Trans-Atlantic Slave Network
b) The Iroquois Confederacy
c) Slave Codes
d) Albany Plan of Union
Who refused to join Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union, which attempted to form a united colonial government to work together against the French?
a. The Mayflower Compact
b. The Great Awakening
c. Colonial legislatures
d. The Californios
Which of the following statements is not an example of Civic Virtue in the early colonies?
a. role of the family as the foundation of colonial life
b. strong religious beliefs, tied to the Great Awakening
c. serve as markets for manufactured goods
d. commitment to education
Which statement below is a rule from the Navigation Acts?
a. Openness to the new ideas of the Enlightenment
b. Do not lose your mind playing too much Fortnite
c. Immigrants shall become something new and different
d. all trade goods had to be carried on ships built in England or the colonies and have English crews.
What British policy declared that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains ? This policy was implemented after the French and Indian War to ease tensions with Native tribes.
a. Treaty of Paris in 1763
b. Magna Carta
c. Canadian Charter
d. The Proclamation of 1763
1. What treaty marked the end of the French and Indian War and also France as a power in North America?
a. Treaty of Paris in 1763
b. Spanish Inquisition
c. Albany Plan of Union
d. The New Deal
What are Tenant Farmers?
a. The ones with cash crops
b. Farmers that pay rent and work the land for a lord for a certain period of time, in exchange for land.
c. Farmers that grow organic
d. Farmers from China
Who are the two rivals in Europe and in North America that both claimed territory in the Ohio River valley?
a. France & Spain
b. Portugal & Italy
c. France & England
d. Spain & England
In 1647 , Massachusetts passed this law providing public education to all children, for the first time in the American colonies.
a. Murphy's Law
b. The Massachusetts School Law
c. Harvard School of Law
d. Jamestown Accords
Who mostly worked as maids, cooks, teachers, nurses, and seamstresses?
a. Unmarried Women
b. Russian immigrants
c. Sharecroppers
d. Indentured Servants
The first written constitution in America.
a. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
b. Declaration of Independence
c. Mayflower Compact
d. Magna Carta
The North had more urban areas than the agrarian South.
By the mid 1700’s which were the 3 largest cities in the Northern Colonies?
a. Scranton, Jamestown and Plymouth
b. Pittsburgh, Boston and Buffalo
c. Philadelphia, New York and Boston
d. Boston, New York and Detroit
Most slaves came from the West Coast of Africa. The route between Africa and the Americas was called _________________ .
a. The Middle Passage
b. African Safari
c. The Silk Road
d. The Final Frontier
Which colonies became known as the “breadbasket colonies” because they produced so much wheat?
a. Ohio River Valley
b. Middle Colonies
c. Southern Colonies
d. New England
What is the name of the blue dye and is also a southern cash crop that was obtained from native plants that is used in coloring fabric?
a. Habanero
b. Indigo
c. Cotton
d. Tobacco
finish this statement >> Goods that couldn’t be transported by river were sent by road using __________ .
a. Conestoga Wagons
b. Chariots
c. Donkeys
d. Oxen
In what war did Native Americans kill many settlers along the Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers?
a. Ottawa's War
b. Magellan's Crusade
c. Detroit Battles
d. Pontiac’s War
