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Chapter 4- Life in the Colonies

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What three facts are true about Ben Franklin?

a)

He became an apprentice at the age of 12

b)

He worked in a boot shop

c)

He owned a printing business in Philadelphia

d)

He had 16 brothers and sisters

2.

What does it mean to barter?

a)

To work in a shop

b)

To argue with someone

c)

To trade one good for another

d)

To buy things with money

3.

What is an export?

a)

A product bought from another country

b)

A product sold to another country

4.

What is an import?

a)

A product bought from another country

b)

A product sold to another country

5.

The Triangular Trade connected what three parts?

a)

South America, Canada, Europe

b)

Americas, Europe, Russia

c)

Americas, Africa, West Indies

d)

Americas, Europe, Africa

6.

What was slavery?

a)

People were bought and sold like property

b)

Buying and selling animals

c)

Traveling the Triangular Trade route

d)

Mocking people

7.

What were uprisings?

a)

The process of growing plants

b)

Rebellions

c)

Raising flags

d)

The process of buying and selling slaves

8.

The French and Indian War started in North America because of conflicts over which region?

a)

Ohio River Valley

b)

Philadelphia

c)

Susquehanna River

d)

New England

9.

What helped turn the tide of the war in favor of the British?

a)

The colonists surrendered

b)

More European countries began to help

c)

A big storm came and flooded the land

d)

The Iroquois joined the British side

10.

What is true about the Middle Passage? Check all that apply.

a)

A terrifying journey from Africa to America

b)

Captured Africans were chained together and packed into boats

c)

It took weeks or months to make the journey

d)

The Africans were happy to be in America

11.

All are ways enslaved people resisted slavery, EXCEPT

a)

Learned to read and write for new knowledge

b)

Break tools and set fire to property

c)

Escape

d)

Try to make peace with the slave owners