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History test review

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 57mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Nearly ten thousand people settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the colony’s first ten years. What was the name of this event?

(a)  

2.

Overtime, colonies population increased on its own without much immigration because of (a)  

3.

What was the Africans journey to the New World called?

(a)  

4.

What was the name of the undeveloped area at the edge of the settled areas?

(a)  

5.

The frontier was often called the (a)  

6.

The (a)   had the most subsistence farmers

7.

The Appalachian mountains was a geographical feature of the (a)  

8.

Travelers on the wilderness trails used (a)   to carry their belongings

9.

Farmers who only grew enough food to feed their families

(a)  

10.

Large farms with slaves were called (a)  

11.

The (a)   colonies had tidewaters as a geographical feature

12.

A trade network that formed a triangle on a map. This trade network was often used to transport slaves from Africa to America.

(a)  

13.

Who translated the bible into the language of the Algonquin Indians.

(a)  

14.

Indians who became Christians lived in (a)  

15.

The (a)   war started when two english men were murdered and the pequot indians were blamed

16.

What year did the pequot war begin

(a)  

17.

The first time the Puritans allowed slavery was after the Pequot war.

a)

true

b)

false

18.

The Englishmen called Metacomet (a)  

19.

So many indians died in King Philip's war they could not maintain their lifestyle

a)

true

b)

false

20.

What year did Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown

(a)  

21.

Bacon's rebellion took place in the (a)   colonies

22.

Metacomet believed that the colonists poisoned his older brother

a)

true

b)

false

23.

What was the name of the local army

(a)  

24.

Governors appointed local _______________ to try people accused of crimes and settle disputes between citizens.

a)

mayors

b)

justices of the peace

c)

police

d)

guards

25.

Free adult white male property owners were called

(a)  

26.

In New England, the (a)   was the basic unit of government.

27.

What was the name of the main north-south highway

(a)  

28.

Name of the large fields in the Southern colonies

(a)  

29.

location of the Piedmont and Tidewater regions

(a)  

30.

Middle colonies were also known as the

(a)  

31.

Name two ways the colonial towns took care of their poor

a)

round the town, putting out

b)

gave them money, fed them

c)

gave them jobs, gave them clothes

d)

They killed all of their poor because they considered them to be a burden

32.

Which of the following is an accurate description of "round the town"

a)

Someone who is poor will go and stay with a family for several weeks. After their time was up with one family they would go stay with another family and so on.

b)

a single family provided food and shelter for someone who is poor and received money from the town for doing so.

c)

A game the early settlers had invented for the children. It involved throwing a ball from house to house until it had cleared the entire town

d)

When the Native Americans attacked every home in a town

33.

Which of the following is an accurate description of "putting out"

a)

A single family provided food and shelter for someone who is poor and received money from the town for doing so.

b)

A war tactic. It involved a mass genocide. This was what happened during King Philip's war. Over three thousand indians and six hundred colonists were killed.

c)

What it was called when Native American attacked random homes and killed the people inside

d)

Someone who is poor will go and stay with a family for several weeks.

34.

Which colonies were the home of King Philip's War

(a)  

35.

Only freemen were allowed to (a)  

36.

This governor did not protect citizens from Native Americans- but also did not give permission to strike back.

(a)  

37.

In this war, colonists captured Native Americans and sold them as slaves.

(a)  

38.

This group of people helped the Native Americans more than any other group

(a)  

39.

This was the second largest immigrant group to come to the US

(a)  

40.

Slaves were used as household servants in these colonies.

(a)  

41.

In which colony were the most French Huguenots living?

(a)  

42.

Elected assemblies or legislatures has the ability to pay the Governor if he's doing a good job...this is known as

(a)  

43.

This was the most important crop for the survival of the colonies

(a)  

44.

What routes did settlers follow inland in the Middle Colonies?

(a)  

45.

America, England and Africa formed this network

(a)  

46.

This was the worst leg of the Triangle Trade

(a)  

47.

What kind of tax was the main source of income for colonial governments?

(a)  

48.

What was the occupation of most of the early colonists?

(a)  

49.

Who had the "power of the purse" in the colonies?

(a)  

50.

Who were the largest ethnic group in the colonies

(a)  

51.

The first important money crop in the southern colonies was (a)  

52.

The town meeting in America was the first form of (a)   government

53.

In (a)   colonies the people elected their own governor and legislature

54.

A major advantage of the middle colonies were their _________ ______

(a)  

55.

Coopers used lumber to make barrels, and wainwrights used it to make (a)  

56.

The main occupations of the New England colonies were......

a)

fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding

b)

fur trade, fishing, and farming

c)

farming, whaling

d)

whaling, fur trade, and fishing

57.

The (a)   colonies were the home of the Pequot war

58.

Which (a)   colonies were the most diverse

59.

Elections were conducted by secret ballot in the colonies.

a)

true

b)

false

60.

Most of the early colonists relied upon locally grown food and natural resources found nearby.

a)

true

b)

false

61.

By the mid-1600s, the colonists were no longer threatened by Indian attacks.

a)

true

b)

false

62.

The Crown allowed each colony to choose its own legislature.

a)

true

b)

false

63.

The (a)   colonies had wide coastal plains