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Worksheets8th Grade 1st Quarter Benchmark - NHS
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is the Difference between a Primary Source and a Secondary Source?
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A Secondary Source was written or created during the time being studied.
A Primary Source was written or created during the time being studied.
A Secondary Source includes original documents and artifacts.
A Primary Source interprets and analyzes secondary sources.
Colonists in the Southern Colonies were MOST likely to earn a living doing which of the following?
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Catching and Selling Fish
Raising and Selling Cattle
Making and Selling Clothing
Growing and Selling Tobacco
During the Colonial period, Africans and Native Americans
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Formed communities that were intolerant of outsiders
welcomed the culture and traditions of 17th century Europe
Moved Westward across the Appalachians to escape Europeans
Created new cultures that were a mixture of ethnicities
The system known as the "Triangular Trade" involved
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Europe, Africa, and Asia
Asia, Africa, and Australia
Africa, Asia, and North America
North America, Europe, and Africa
What did the early English settlers in Plymouth Colony learn from Native Americans?
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How to use clay to make bowls
How to grow new crops such as corn
how to make homes from animal skins
how to weave baskets from marsh grasses
Which of the following is the BEST example of cooperation between the Native Americans and the European Colonists?
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The Mexican American War
King Philip's War
Francisco Pizarro conquering the Inca Empire
Squanto teaching the Pilgrims how to grow corn and catch fish
Which document is an example of a PRIMARY Source?
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A Social Studies Textbook
A Biography about Robert E. Lee
A history book written by a college professor
a Diary kept by a pioneer woman on the Oregon Trail
This 1765 revenue law of the British parliament succeeded in angering the American Colonists, not because it taxed most documents but because the colonists had no voice in its passage.
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The Tea Act
The Stamp Act
The Sugar Act
The Townshend Acts
The United States achieved independence in the 18th century from what country?
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Spain
France
Great Britain
Germany
Which statement best describes the reason why the American colonies developed a separate culture from Great Britain during the era of Colonization?
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Americans spoke a different language than the British
Colonists and Britain were geographically separated by a great distance
The British practiced a different religion than the Americans
Colonists increasingly allied themselves with Native Americans against England
The "Middle Passage" Referred to:
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The transportation of Slaves from Africa to North America
The creation of the Panama Canal in Central America
Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory
the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California
The Magna Carta is MOST important for which reason?
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It created Parliament
It was the "Great Charter"
It created the first Democracy in England
It put limits on the Monarch's Powers
Why did American colonists resent British Taxes?
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American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury
Unlike American colonists, people who lived in Great Britain did not have to pay any taxes
Americans did not elect representatives to Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.
Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.
Which colonial region was the MOST culturally diverse?
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The Southern Colonies
The Middle Colonies
The Northern/ New England Colonies
The Mid - Western Colonies
What was the MAIN reason that the Native American population sharply declined after the arrival of European Settlers?
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European settlers forced the Native Americans off their land
European settlers pressed many Native Americans into Slavery
European settlers took control of Native American food supplies
European settlers brought diseases into Native American villages
The widespread transfer of animals, plants, cultures, people, diseases, and ideas that occurred between Europe and the New World is known as:
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Mercantilism
The Great Migration
The Columbian Exchange
The Colonial Transfer
Why was trade MOST LIKELY helpful for BOTH the American Colonies and England?
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because this trade kept the colonies in constant need of support from England
because the colonies had raw goods and England could make manufactured goods
because they could trade more freely with each other than with other countries
because the English could grow crops and sell them to colonists in return for gold
This picture shows a tobacco wharf during colonial times. This picture would have MOST LIKELY convinced Europeans to settle in North America by suggesting that:
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opportunities for success are available to all
life in the colonies was difficult but rewarding
agriculture and slave labor could lead to riches
colonial riches could be achieved without effort
> Had Fertile Soil and Warm Climate
> Produced Cash Crops like Tobacco, and Cotton
> Used Slaves and the Plantation System
These Facts are describing the economy of __________ during the Colonial Period.
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The Northern/ New England Colonies
The Southern Colonies
The Middle Colonies
The Greater Colonies.
This cartoon printed in 1765 was most likely a protest against:
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pirates
food safety
cruelty of British soldiers
British Taxes
The economic activities of the English North American colonies during the 17th century could BEST be described as:
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industrial in both north and south
agricultural in both north and south
agricultural in north industrial in south
agricultural in south and industrial in north
Which of the following is an example of a SECONDARY source?
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Report from an Officer in the Revolutionary War to their General
a Diary kept by a pioneer woman on the Oregon Trail
A History Book written by a college professor
Photograph of Civil War Soldiers at the Battle of Antietam
Slaves were originally brought to British North America for the purpose of:
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tobacco cultivation
fighting the French
working in factories
gold and silver mining
Mercantilism was the principle that:
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the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country
the English colonies would lose their legal rights and elected assemblies
a government could tax without consent of the taxpayers for the purpose of regulating trade
colonists would henceforth be required to pay taxes to the crown to fund their own protection
During the Colonial Period the Middle Colonies had a economy based on:
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Fishing and Timber
Farming Food Crops like Corn and Wheat
Farming Cash Crops like Tobacco and Cotton
Piracy and raiding Spanish ships for treasure
