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Colonization to Constitution Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What religious group was lead by the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn?

a)

Quakers

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Puritans

d)

Catholics

2.

What amendment gives states the right to create their own laws as long as they do not go against the Constitution?

a)

10th

b)

9th

c)

5th

d)

4th

3.

What group of people fled England for religious freedom?

a)

Slaves

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Indentured servants

d)

Monarchs

4.

What was the last battle of the American Revolution?

a)

Lexngton and Concord

b)

Saratoga

c)

Ft. McHenry

d)

Yorktown

5.

What are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution called?

a)

Articles of Rights

b)

People's Rights

c)

Bill of Rights

d)

States Rights

6.

What colonial region would profit from lumber and whaling because the soil was least fertile (rocky soil)?

a)

Southern Colonies

b)

Middle Colonies

c)

New England Colonies

d)

British Colonies

7.

What law under the Articles of Confederation set up an organized process of statehood?

a)

Land Claims Ordinance

b)

Statehood Ordinance

c)

Northwest Ordinance

d)

Southwest Ordinance

8.

Which answer best describes the Columbian Exchange?

a)

ideas were exchanged between Europe and Americans

b)

The old World became the New World

c)

The Native Americans and Christopher Columbus shared religious ideas

d)

The Eastern and Western Hemispheres exchanged plants, food, and also diseases

9.

What law stated that the colonists could not settle past the Appalachian Mountains?

a)

Mountains Acts

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

Settlement Proclamation

d)

Quartering Act

10.

What document announced the grievances of the colonists and the separation from England?

a)

Fundamental Orders

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Articles of Confederation

d)

Declaration of Independence

11.

Under the Articles of Confederation, which government had the MOST power?

a)

Legislative Branch

b)

Executive Branch

c)

National Government

d)

State Government

12.

What was the result of the colonial victory at Saratoga?

a)

Washington's army continued to decline

b)

France decided to join forces with England to defeat the Colonies

c)

Cornwallis surrendered

d)

France gave support to the colonial effort

13.

What is the significance of the year 1787?

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Constitutional Convention

d)

Stamp Act Congress

14.

What is the name of the agreement that the Pilgrims signed before going ashore in Plymouth?

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Articles of Confederation

d)

Charter of Liberties

15.

The British Colonies exported ________________ to England

a)

manufactured goods

b)

raw materials

c)

slaves

d)

polished goods

16.

What was the first constitution of the the United States that failed?

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Magna Carta

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Mayflower Compact

17.

What agreement combined the New Jersey and the Virginia Plan?

a)

Three-fifths Compromise

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

The Constitutional Compromise

d)

The Great Compromise

18.

What principle of the Constitution states that "The People" give the power to the government?

a)

Individual Rights

b)

Federalism

c)

Limited Government

d)

Popular Sovereignty

19.

What laws were put in place to punish Boston for the merchandise that was destroyed?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Quartering Act

d)

Intolerable Acts

20.

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

a)

Plymouth

b)

Jamestown

c)

Boston

d)

Philadelphia

21.

One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was ____.

a)

the ability of Congress to tax

b)

the ability of Congress to declare war

c)

the inability of Congress to tax

d)

the inability of Congress to create courts

22.

What principle of the Constitution states that each branch of government has some control over each other?

a)

separation of powers

b)

limited government

c)

checks and balances

d)

federalism

23.

What amendment was created in response to the writs of assistance?

a)

1st

b)

4th

c)

6th

d)

8th

24.

What document limited the power of the monarch?

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

c)

Magna Carta

d)

English Bill of Rights

25.

Which of these reflects the correct order of these events?

a)

Boston Tea Party - Plymouth settled - Bill of Rights - Declaration of Independence - Articles of Confederation

b)

Plymouth settled - Declaration of Independence - Articles of Confederation - Bill of Rights - Boston Tea Party

c)

Plymouth settled - Boston Party - Declaration of Independence - Articles of Confederation - Bill of Rights

d)

Boston Tea Party - Plymouth settled - Articles of Confederation - Declaration of Independence - Bill of Rights