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US I, Quiz 1 (21-22)

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What motivation is being described?


Lumber & fur

a)

Gold

b)

Glory

c)

God

2.

What motivation is being described?


Spanish converting natives to Catholicism

a)

Gold

b)

Glory

c)

God

3.

What motivation is being described?


Britain plants flag in Virginia, beating out France

a)

Gold

b)

Glory

c)

God

4.

Another word for describing Glory (and Gold and God) is...

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Religious Freedom

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Imperialism

5.

The Pilgrims and Quakers looked for what in North America?

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Religious Freedom

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Imperialism

6.

By having more resources to sell for gold and limiting purchases from rival nations, a nation practices...

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Religious Freedom

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Imperialism

7.

Potatoes, pineapples and pumpkins go to Europe while horses, disease and bananas go to North America

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Religious Freedom

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Imperialism

8.

Working off your passage in the New World

a)

Headright System

b)

Joint-stock company

c)

Indentured servants

9.

Investors pool money together to support voyage and new colony with the hopes of profits

a)

Headright System

b)

Joint-stock company

c)

Indentured servants

10.

What do you need before establishing and running a colony

(a)  

11.

First permanent British settlement in North America

a)

Jamestown

b)

Quebec

c)

Plymouth

d)

Roanoke

12.

Led the Jamestown colony

a)

John Smith

b)

Powhatan

13.

Ally and enemy of the British

a)

John Smith

b)

Powhatan

14.

Canada

a)

New France

b)

New Orleans

c)

Ohio River Valley

d)

Pittsburgh

15.

Ft. Duquesne later on

a)

New France

b)

New Orleans

c)

Ohio River Valley

d)

Pittsburgh

16.

Where most of the French and Indian War took place

a)

New France

b)

New Orleans

c)

Ohio River Valley

d)

Pittsburgh

17.

Prime minster of Britain who turned the tide of the French and Indian War

a)

William Pitt

b)

Edward Braddock

c)

James Wolfe

d)

Marquis de Montcalm

18.

Type of warfare used by natives and French at Ft. Duquesne

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

guerilla

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Pontiac

19.

Britain gets all of France's possessions in North America

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

guerilla

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Pontiac

20.

Can't go past Appalachian Mountains

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

guerilla

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Pontiac

21.

Montesquieu, Locke and Hobbes' influences on liberty and representation came from...

a)

the Enlightenment

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Boycotts

d)

Imperialism

22.

Response to the Stamp Act and refusal to buy goods...

a)

the Enlightenment

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Boycotts

d)

Imperialism

23.

The colonies exist to serve the empire (as raw materials source and market for British-made goods)...

a)

the Enlightenment

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Boycotts

d)

Imperialism

24.

Virginia legislative assembly and form of self-government

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Dominion of New England

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Committee of Correspondence

25.

British attempt to tighten administration of the colonies by joining some colonies into one union

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Dominion of New England

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Committee of Correspondence

26.

Meeting of representatives from 9 colonies in New York to address British taxation policies and colonial defenses

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Dominion of New England

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Committee of Correspondence

27.

Communication network of the colonies to discuss British violations of liberties that was set-up after the Gaspee affair

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Dominion of New England

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Committee of Correspondence

28.

How did Americans get around taxation policies (choose one of two answers)

(a)  

29.

What is the conflict over: French and Indian War debts

a)

taxation

b)

liberty

c)

representation

30.

What is the conflict over: salutary neglect ends

a)

taxation

b)

liberty

c)

representation

31.

What is the conflict over: Virginia Resolves

a)

taxation

b)

liberty

c)

representation

32.

Great orator and author of the Virginia Resolves

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

George Grenville

d)

Charles Townshend

e)

John Hancock

33.

Harvard educated propaganda master and leader of Sons of Liberty (Boston chapter)

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

George Grenville

d)

Charles Townshend

e)

John Hancock

34.

Master smuggler, Liberty owner and financier of the American Revolution

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

George Grenville

d)

Charles Townshend

e)

John Hancock

35.

Prime minister of Britain who came up with the Stamp Act to repay French and Indian War debts

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

George Grenville

d)

Charles Townshend

e)

John Hancock

36.

British Finance Minister who put an indirect tax on items such as glass, lead and tea

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

George Grenville

d)

Charles Townshend

e)

John Hancock

37.

Indirect tax on glass, lead, and paint. Named after Champagne Charley

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Tea Act

d)

Quartering Act

e)

Quebec Act

38.

Monopoly by British East India Company that crippled American merchants and lead to an event at Griffin's Wharf

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Tea Act

d)

Quartering Act

e)

Quebec Act

39.

Redcoats going to civilian houses and receiving food, room and board

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Tea Act

d)

Quartering Act

e)

Quebec Act

40.

Allows French to extend into the Ohio River Valley and bring Catholicism and laws with them, thus angering colonists

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Tea Act

d)

Quartering Act

e)

Quebec Act

41.

Leader of the mob involved in the Boston Massacre

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Mercy Otis Warren

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Gage

e)

James Otis

42.

Coined catchphrase "Taxation without Representation is tyranny"

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Mercy Otis Warren

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Gage

e)

James Otis

43.

Lawyer for redcoats involved in Boston Massacre

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Mercy Otis Warren

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Gage

e)

James Otis

44.

Led Daughters of Liberty events like spinning bees and boycott of British-made luxuries

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Mercy Otis Warren

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Gage

e)

James Otis

45.

Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America and royal governor of Massachusetts after the Boston tea party

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Mercy Otis Warren

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Gage

e)

James Otis

46.

Led to Intolerable Acts (Griffin's wharf, $1.7M damage, native american disguise)

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Gaspee Affair

47.

Response to increased redcoats presence, loss of jobs, intoxicated snowball fights and name-calling

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Gaspee Affair

48.

Led to Committees of Correspondence, a burnt schooner in Newport, RI and future trials for Americans in Britain

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Gaspee Affair

49.

What was NOT part of the Intolerable Acts?

a)

Boston Port Act (closes Boston Harbor)

b)

Martial law in Boston

c)

Quartering Act

d)

Quebec Act

50.

The official name of the Intolerable Acts (don't include "act" on end)

(a)  

51.

Act that would allow Parliament to "bind the colonies and Americans... in all cases whatsoever." (don't include "act")

(a)