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Power Standards 1 and 3: Colonization & American Revolutio

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How had the location of major overseas trade shifted in Europe by the seventeenth century?

a)

Trade shifted from being centered in the Mediterranean to being centered in the Atlantic.

b)

Trade shifted from being centered in the Atlantic to being centered in the Mediterranean.

c)

Trade shifted from being centered in the Atlantic to being centered in the Pacific.

d)

Trade shifted from being centered in the Pacific to being centered in the Atlantic.

2.

Which of the following is a reason why representative government developed in the colonies?

a)

distance from Great Britain

b)

the king wanted them to govern themselves

c)

colonists got rich from mercantilism

d)

the beginning of the slave trade

3.

What document was signed by the Pilgrims in 1620 in order to create the first self government in the colonies?

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Mayflower Compact

d)

English Bill of Rights

4.
In ____, the first permanent English settlement in North America, _____,was established. 
a)
1607, Roanoke
b)
1619, Jamestown  
c)
1620, Plymouth
d)
1607, Jamestown 
5.

What religious group founded the New England colonies?

a)

Puritans

b)

Quakers

c)

Catholics

6.

Which of the following statements BEST describes how British leaders felt about their victory in the French and Indian War?

a)

They were thrilled to have expanded their empire and to have defeated French forces in North America.

b)

They were upset about the lack of support they had received, and felt the colonies needed to be reorganized.

c)

They were worried about what the backlash across Europe would be, so they did not revel in their victory.

d)

They were devastated by the toll the war took on their land, people, and international relations.

7.

Which conflict forced England to abandon Salutary Neglect

a)

King Philip's War

b)

French and Indian War

c)

The American Revolution

d)

Pequot's War

8.

What caused significant opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765?

a)

the inability of Great Britain to defend the colonies

b)

colonists' lack of representation in British Parliament

c)

Great Britain's efforts to cut colonists off from trade routes

d)

the impact of the act on the colonies' economic development

9.

What did the Royal Proclamation of 1763 seek to control?

a)

the spread of colonization

b)

French imports and exports

c)

taxation on colonial agriculture

d)

the separation of church and state

10.

I. ?

boycotts

general unrest

written protests

destruction of property


Which of the following would make the BEST title for the outline above?

a)

Colonial Reactions to British Policies

b)

British Response to Colonial Resistance

c)

American Response to the French Revolution

d)

State-by-State Reactions to the Proposed Constitution