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WorksheetsColonization to Constitution Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What religious group was lead by the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn?
Quakers
Pilgrims
Puritans
Catholics
What amendment gives states the right to create their own laws as long as they do not go against the Constitution?
10th
9th
5th
4th
What group of people fled England for religious freedom?
Slaves
Pilgrims
Indentured servants
Monarchs
What was the last battle of the American Revolution?
Lexngton and Concord
Saratoga
Ft. McHenry
Yorktown
What are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution called?
Articles of Rights
People's Rights
Bill of Rights
States Rights
What colonial region would profit from lumber and whaling because the soil was least fertile (rocky soil)?
Southern Colonies
Middle Colonies
New England Colonies
British Colonies
What law under the Articles of Confederation set up an organized process of statehood?
Land Claims Ordinance
Statehood Ordinance
Northwest Ordinance
Southwest Ordinance
Which answer best describes the Columbian Exchange?
ideas were exchanged between Europe and Americans
The old World became the New World
The Native Americans and Christopher Columbus shared religious ideas
The Eastern and Western Hemispheres exchanged plants, food, and also diseases
What law stated that the colonists could not settle past the Appalachian Mountains?
Mountains Acts
Proclamation of 1763
Settlement Proclamation
Quartering Act
What document announced the grievances of the colonists and the separation from England?
Fundamental Orders
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Under the Articles of Confederation, which government had the MOST power?
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
National Government
State Government
What was the result of the colonial victory at Saratoga?
Washington's army continued to decline
France decided to join forces with England to defeat the Colonies
Cornwallis surrendered
France gave support to the colonial effort
What is the significance of the year 1787?
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Constitutional Convention
Stamp Act Congress
What is the name of the agreement that the Pilgrims signed before going ashore in Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
Magna Carta
Articles of Confederation
Charter of Liberties
The British Colonies exported ________________ to England
manufactured goods
raw materials
slaves
polished goods
What was the first constitution of the the United States that failed?
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
What agreement combined the New Jersey and the Virginia Plan?
Three-fifths Compromise
Missouri Compromise
The Constitutional Compromise
The Great Compromise
What principle of the Constitution states that "The People" give the power to the government?
Individual Rights
Federalism
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
What laws were put in place to punish Boston for the merchandise that was destroyed?
Boston Massacre
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Plymouth
Jamestown
Boston
Philadelphia
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was ____.
the ability of Congress to tax
the ability of Congress to declare war
the inability of Congress to tax
the inability of Congress to create courts
What principle of the Constitution states that each branch of government has some control over each other?
separation of powers
limited government
checks and balances
federalism
What amendment was created in response to the writs of assistance?
1st
4th
6th
8th
What document limited the power of the monarch?
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Which of these reflects the correct order of these events?
Boston Tea Party - Plymouth settled - Bill of Rights - Declaration of Independence - Articles of Confederation
Plymouth settled - Declaration of Independence - Articles of Confederation - Bill of Rights - Boston Tea Party
Plymouth settled - Boston Party - Declaration of Independence - Articles of Confederation - Bill of Rights
Boston Tea Party - Plymouth settled - Articles of Confederation - Declaration of Independence - Bill of Rights
