WorksheetsHistory Chapter 4 Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
1. The Magna Carta was the first document to ______________________ . (Page 102)
a. place limits on the power of wealthy landowners.
b. establish a monarchy
c. place limits on an English ruler's power.
2. The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to ____________ . (Page 104)
a. support the Navigation Acts.
b. give more power to the monarchy.
c. expect a voice in their government.
3. Unlike modern public schools, colonial public schools included instruction in _________________ . (Page 118)
a. religion
b. poetry
c. politics
4. What does the quote describe? (page 114)
a. conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards Africa
b. conditions aboard a slave ship crossing the Pacific
c. conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards the Americas
5. Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the ___________________ . (Page 114)
a. Gullah
b. Middle Passage
c. Atlantic Crossing
6. Which of the following colonies had a ban on slavery until the 1750s? (Page 116)
a. Virginia
b. Georgia
c. Pennsylvania
7. Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press? ____________ (Page 105)
a. Peter Zenger
b. Phillis Wheatley
c. Baron de Montesquieu
8. Who had controlling authority in colonial families? _______________ (Page 108)
a. the wives and mothers
b. the husbands and fathers
c. the middle class
9. Most women in colonial America were expected to marry men _______________ . (Page 108)
a. they fell in love with.
b. who were regular churchgoers.
c. chosen by their parents.
10. At around what age were colonial children expected to begin working ? _______________ (Page 110)
a. 7
b. 15
c. 18
11. Which of the following led to the rise of many new churches in the colonies? _____________ (Page 121)
a. the Magna Carta
b. the Great Awakening
c. Locke's treatises
12. Which of the following is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes? ___________ (Page 116)
a. They did not want slaves leaving plantations without permission.
b. They did not want enslaved people to read and write.
c. They feared slave revolts.
13. Who among the following were allowed to vote in the American colonies? ______________ (Page 104)
a. most white males
b. most free Africans
c. all white women
14. Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanack? __________ (Page 120)
a. John Locke
b. George Whitefield
c. Benjamin Franklin
15. The upper class of colonial society is called a __________ . (Page 110)
a. gentry
b. indentured servant
c. Anne Bradstreet
