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WorksheetsUnit 01 Foundation through Independence
Total questions: 124
Worksheet time: 10hrs 20mins
1. In what region was the first permanent English settlement founded?
New England (Massachusetts)
New England (Rhode Island)
Virginia (Chesapeake Bay)
New York (New Holland)
England's first attempt to plant a colony in North America by Sir Walter Raleigh met a mysterious end where?
Roanoke Island, NC
Jamestown, VA
Plymouth, MA
Providence, RI
The Virginia Company, granted a charter by King James I of England, established the first successful English colony where in North America?
Roanoke Island, NC
Jamestown, VA
Plymouth, MA
Providence, RI
The goal of the Virginia Company was to find what resource?
Gold
Silver
Tobacco
Sugar
This soldier of fortune took over Jamestown in efforts to save it from destruction making harsh changes, famously saying, “He that will not work shall not eat.”
John Smith
Powhatan
Nathaniel Bacon
John Roth
Captain John Smith persuaded what Native American group to help the people of Jamestown?
Powhatan
Delaware
Iroquois
Metacom
According to John Smith this Indian princess saved him from being executed by his Native American captors.
Powhatan
Pocahontas
King Philip
Squanto
In 1618 the Virginia Company employed this recruitment strategy to attract individuals to the new world by promising them 50 acres of land if they paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia.
The Headright System
The Caste System
The Bacon System
The Indentured System
Jamestown colonist John Rolfe developed a highly popular strain of ___ , also known as "brown gold".
tobacco
hemp
Georgia clay
cotton
In need of laborers many plantations imported ____ from England?
indentured servants
African slaves
Native Americans
Irish slaves
In 1618 what group of individuals were first imported to Virginia?
Indentured Servants
African Slaves
Native Americans
Irish Slaves
This was the second Chesapeake Colony founded in 1632 by a single proprietor, Cecilius Calvert, who welcomed Catholics
Jamestown
Maryland
Massachusetts Bay
Providence
This group of English settlers, also known as Separatist, were blown off course and ended up founding a colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Pilgrims
Baptist
Quakers
Dutch
This contract was signed by the Pilgrims binding them to follow "just and equal laws" that their chosen representatives would write up.
Mayflower Compact
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
The Peace of Augsburg
The Puritans emigrated to create a new model of society which John Winthrop, their first governor, called
a "City upon a Hill"
"Heaven on Earth"
"New Jerusalem"
"A New Model Army"
This Native American helped supply the Pilgrim settlers with food their first winter in Massachusetts.
Squanto
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Metacom
This feast was held on the fourth Thursday in November was the Pilgrim way of rejoicing for their survival?
Thanksgiving
Memorial Day
Labor Day
Passover
This larger and more successful organization took over the Puritan colony at Plymouth.
Massachusetts Bay Company
Virginia Company
Chesapeake Company
Providence Plantations
Which of the following were the Pilgrims in favor of?
Equality for all peoples.
Suffrage (voting) for all peoples
Religious tolerance
Being a "visible Saint".
Which could be punished in New England?
Not teaching your child to read the Bible.
Owning Slaves
Practicing a religion of your choice.
Working on Saturday
Who were two individuals that were exiled from the Plymouth Colony for practicing their own version of Christianity?
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
John Smith
Who were the first settlers in the middle colonies?
The Dutch
The Spanish
The English
The French
The Dutch colony in North America was known as?
New Amsterdam
New Netherland
Plymouth
Jamestown
The largest Dutch settlement in New Netherland was?
New Amsterdam
New Netherland
Plymouth
Jamestown
Which of the following describes the Dutch settlement in North America?
Multicultural you're welcome if you make money.
Most religiously tolerant of colonies which would become the U.S.
Dutch viewed themselves as business partners with Native Americans (Iroquois).
All of the above
Which are examples of the last effects of Dutch settlement in North America?
Names of the Boroughs of NYC.
Name of Wall Street in NYC.
Principles which influenced the development of an American mindset.
All of the above.
How did the English view the Dutch settlements between their northern and southern colonies?
"Dutch Wedge"
"Double Dutch"
"Going Dutch"
"Dutch Golden Age"
Which Englishmen is most notable for his land grant to found a colony in the formerly Dutch own territory?
William Penn
John Smith
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roger Williams
Pennsylvania originally was a haven for which religious group persecuted in England?
Quakers
Puritans
Jews
Catholics
What city with a grid design was founded by William Penn and would become the largest city in the colonies and second largest in the British Empire?
Philadelphia
Boston
New York
Baltimore
The Pennsylvania colony was religiously
tolerant.
intolerant.
“Now I would have you well observe, that I am very sensible of the unkindness and injustice that has been too much exercised towards you by the people of these parts of the world, who have sought . . . to make great advantages by you, . . . sometimes to the shedding of blood. . . . But I am not such a man. . . . I have great love and regard toward you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just, and peaceable life.” This quote best represents?
William Penn's view that Native Americans should be treated fairly & with respect.
William Penn's view that Native Americans should be treated as the savages they were.
William Penn's view that other religions beliefs should be treated fairly & with respect.
William Penn's view that people of other religious beliefs were going to hell.
Which of the following are true about Pennsylvania after the death of William Penn?
Relations with Nate American deteriorated.
African Slavery increased.
Relations with Nate American improved.
African Slavery decreased
This was the first document in American history that called for the abolition of slavery in the Americas.
1688 Germantown Petition
1741 "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon
1630 A City Upon a Hill, A Sermon
1675 A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
In 1737 Pennsylvania colonists perpetrated one of the most famous frauds against Native Americans where Pennsylvanians used relay runners to mark out as much territory as they could in 36 hours.
"The Walking Purchase"
"Delaware Treaty"
"Iroquois Confederacy"
"Treaty of Paris"
Among their many beliefs quakers believed in non-violence which made them?
Pacifist
Cowards like the French
Protestants
Anabaptist (Amish)
Large numbers of ________ speaking people settled in Pennsylvania. Which is why some Amish & Mennonites speak Pennsylvania Dutch today.
German
French
Swedish
Yiddish
In 1663 English King Charles II gave eight proprietors the right to set up a colony just North of Spanish controlled Florida to serve as a buffer and included slaves & plantation owners from Barbados.
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Florida
In 1676 this Virginian led a rebellion against the governor William Berkley who favored rich tidewater landowners over poor frontiersmen.
Nathaniel Bacon
John Smith
Ben Franklin
William Penn
The results of Bacon's Rebellion were
The burning of Jamestown.
The replacement of the indentured servant system to a slave system.
Greater control of the colonies by the English Crown.
All of the above.
After King Philip's War near wiped out English settlement Charles II consolidated Connecticut, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey into the dominion of
New England
The Virginias
The Carolina's
Edmund Andros
This example of mass hysteria in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693 is the setting for Author Millers, The Crucible.
The Salem Witch Trials
Bacon's Rebellion
The Last of the Mohicans
King Philip's War
In the late 17th Century the majority of Americans
lived / worked on farms.
lived / worked in cities.
According to Crash Course which two ideas were fairly intertwined early on in American history?
Owning a small farm.
Owning a small business.
Freedom
The freedom to own others.
Colonial America was a classless society as evidenced by the family of George Washington.
True
False.
As the colonies matured women gained a greater and greater role in colonial society.
True
False
Chief Wahunsenacawh, the chief of natives the English first encountered in the Chesapeake area was named what by the British?
Chief Powhatan
Pocahontas
Chief Pequot
King Philip
What was Chief Powhatan's initial view of the English?
The English were pretty clueless, when it came to not dying of starvation.
They were useful--because they had guns.
They were barbaric invaders who needed to be put to death.
They were a means to an end to establish better trade with the great English chief.
The Virginia Company existed to make money, and since the Chesapeake lacked gold or silver, making money required what to be successful?
Trade
Love
Slaves
Additional colonist
The English always took advantage of Native Americans?
True
False
What was a primary item that the Native Americans could trade with the English early on?
food
iron utensils
tools
guns
What pressure did the food trade put on the Native American societies?
Indian men devoted more time to hunting and less to agriculture which upset traditional gender balance in their society.
Indian women devoted more time to hunting and less to agriculture which upset traditional gender balance in their society.
Indian societies began planting and harvesting new crops which were tougher on the soil.
Indian societies began planting and harvesting new crops which took up time and took away from traditional hunting and religious ceremonies.
Which land use practices of the English led to conflict between them and the Native Americans?
The English liked to fence in part of their land.
The English allowed their pigs and animals to roam freely which resulted in them eating Natives crops.
The English began to fight over the best lands for hunting.
The English began to fight over the best lands for farming.
As Europeans' appetite for furs grew, Indian tribes began to ...
fight with each other over access to the best hunting grounds, leading to inter-tribal warfare, which suddenly included guns.
form alliances to monopolize the fur trade.
fight with the English because they needed furs more for their way of life.
All of the above.
At one point which English leader had to be "saved" by Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, though this was probably all a ritual planned by Powhatan to demonstrate his dominance over the English.
John Smith
John Rolfe
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Pocahontas never married John Smith, though she did eventually marry another Englishman
John Rolfe
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
William Bradford
The Virginia Company was a successful financial venture?
Yes
No
Which Puritan leader was known for his fair treatment of the Native Americans
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Which were views of the Natives held by the Puritans?
They saw natives as heathens in need of salvation
They recognized that the Native American way of life might be tempting to some people, who might want to go native.
They viewed the Native Americans as equal partners from an equally important society.
All of the above
There was even anti-Indian propaganda in the form of books. These were known as ___ the most popular being Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson.
Captivity narratives
Diaries
Biographies
Exploration narratives
This conflict between Native Americans and colonists in 1637 resulted in the massacring over 500 people at a Mystic Village and the opening up the Connecticut River to further settlement.
Pequot War
Powhatan War
Metacomet's War
King Philip's War
What's the point of even telling these bloody stories about massacres and atrocities between the Native Americans and the English?
How has the geography of the U.S. protected it and possibly allowed for its defined government & political structure?
It's fair from everything else.
It's close to everything else.
It has weak neighbors.
It has strong neighbors.
What major divisions can the 13 American Colonies be divided into?
One: It's all British.
Two: North & South.
Three: New England, Middle, & Southern
Four: New England, Middle, Southern, Spanish
Which of the following best describes the New England Colonies?
Heavily forested
Great seaports
Rocky soil and a short growing season
All of the above
Due to its geography New England became a center for?
Trade & industry
Agriculture, as it was known as the bread basket of American.
Agriculture, as it grew many cash crops.
None of the above.
This region can be described as the?
New England
The Middle colonies
The Southern colonies
The Northwest Territory
Which of the following best describes the geography of the Middle colonies?
Heavily forested, great seaports, rocky soil and a short growing season.
Long warm growing season with rich soil. Long navigable rivers stretched far in land.
Long hot growing season that allowed for large scale agriculture of cash crops which as tobacco and cotton.
All of the above.
Which are two major colonial cities at the mouth of navigable rivers in the Middle Colonies?
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Savannah
Which of the following best describes the geography of the geography of the Southern colonies?
Heavily forested, great seaports, rocky soil and a short growing season.
Long warm growing season with rich soil. Long navigable rivers stretched far in land.
Long hot growing season that allowed for large scale agriculture of cash crops which as tobacco and cotton.
All of the above.
What geographic feature played a major role in the settlement of many Southern cities?
The Fall Line
The Fault Line
The Mason Dixon Line
The Appalachian Mountains
Why did Slavery in the American South last so long?
The immense size and lack of infrastructure in the South lead to disproportionate representation in the Supreme Court.
Slavery was very lucrative throughout U.S. History.
It was hot and no one wants to work in the hot sun. So... slavery.
The majority of Southerners owned slaves.
Americans often refer to the Seven Years War as the?
French & Indian War
Pomeranian War
Third Silesian War
War of Spanish Succession
What reason for the Seven Years War does Crash Course focus on?
Economics
Westward French expansion
The Great Awakening
The American Enlightenment
3. What was the economic system of the British Empire in the 18th century?
Mercantilism
Laissez faire capitalism
Economic liberalism
Socialism
Which of the following best summarizes mercantilism?
Governments should regulate the economy in order to increase national power.
An economy is strongest when all the government does is protect individuals' rights.
A broad political movement that seeks to promote the ideals of socialism within the context of a democratic system.
A way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
Which of the following are associated with mercantilism?
Tariffs
Monopolies
Favorable balance of trade
All of the above
Which of the following were key trade goods in the British mercantile economy before the French & Indian War?
Tobacco
Sugar
Slaves
Cotton
Though the Spanish had a greater empire by land mass in North America which European power rivaled England in the 18th century?
France
Portugal
Germany
The Netherlands
Where were the French and British Empires butting up against each other before the French & Indian War?
The Ohio River Valley
The Hudson River Valley
The St. Lawrence River Valley
The Great Lakes Region
Generally who had better relations with the Native Americans such as the Hurons and Mohawks?
The French
The English
The Spanish
The Dutch
Who led an unsuccessful military campaign to eject the French from the Forks of the Ohio River near modern day Pittsburg?
George Washington
William Pitt
General Braddock
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
George Washington was also present for this major British defeat where Major General Edward Braddock and two thirds of his army were killed just outside of downtown Pittsburgh.
Battle of Fort Duquesne
Battle of Fort Bull
Battle of Carillon
Battle of Fort Frontenac
Battle of Ticonderoga
The British capture of Nova Scotia led to the expulsion of what French speaking people in what is known as "The Expulsion"?
Acadians
Canadians
Native Americans
The Dutch
Majority of the French speaking Acadians end up in Louisiana forming this people group?
Cajuns
Creoles
Swamp people
The Red Sticks
Which are major British victories of 1759?
Battle of Fort Duquesne
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Battle of Louisbourg
The Battle on the Plains of Abraham in Montreal
Arguably who was the biggest looser of the French & Indian War?
The Native Americans
The French
The English
The American Colonist
In 1763 the Seven Years War ended with?
The Treaty of Paris
Pinckney's Treaty
Jay's Treaty
The Treaty of Ghent
Why were the Native Americans the biggest loser of the French and Indian War?
The Native American's could no longer play the French and British off each other.
The Native American's were exposed to more European sickness.
The Native Americans missed the company of an economic partnership with the French.
None of the above.
In 1763 Native Americans frustrated with the results of the Seven Years War and the treatment of the British launched what armed uprising?
Pontiac's Rebellion
Pequot Wars
King Philip's War
Beaver Wars
The goal of the (Royal) Proclamation Line of 1763 was to
Stop British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and create a permanent settlement for Native Americans.
Slow down British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and slowly displace Native Americans.
Stop British settlement east of the Appalachian Mountains and create a permanent settlement for Native Americans.
Slow down British settlement east of the Appalachian Mountains and slowly displace Native Americans.
According to Crash Course which to "isms" took hold in America following the Seven Years War which undermined traditional political authority?
Republicanism
Liberalism
Naturalism
Socialism
What religious movement also undermined traditional political authority before the American Revolution?
The Great Awakening
The American Enlightenment
The Albany Plan
The East West Schism
During the Great Awakening old line Congregationalist churches were challenged by what type of ministers who placed less of an emphasis on predestination and more on an individual's experience of salvation on being born again?
New Light
Evangelist
Theologians
Baptist
Who are two notable ministers in the Americas who preached during the Great Awakening?
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
John Wesley
Bob Jones
A notable sermon from the Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
City Upon a Hill
What Think Ye of Christ?
The Sermon on the Mount
This failed meeting / plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin (age 48) to form a united defense by the colonist and friendly Native Americans against the French at the beginning of the French and Indian War as is notable as the first time colonist organized as a separate united governing body from Britain.
The Albany Plan
The Continental Congress
The Galloway Plan
Plan B
The American Revolution and the American War of Independence are the same thing?
True
False
The American Revolution was caused by taxes?
True
False
The American Revolution was caused by taxes?
True
False
What conflict left the British crown severely in debt? Which lead to a great involvement of the British crown in the lives and liberties of the American Colonists
The French & Indian War (Seven Years War)
The 100 Years War
The War of Spanish Succession
The Napoleonic Wars
The taxes and trade restrictions placed upon the American Colonists by the British government following the French and Indian War were a new thing to the colonists?
Yes, the American Colonists had never been taxed or had trade restrictions placed on them.
No, the American Colonists had taxes and trade restrictions placed on them but they were loosely enforced.
What angered colonists most about the British government's actions following the French & Indian (Seven Years) War?
The colonists lack of representation in the British government.
Taxes
The Royal Proclamation Line of 1763
The increased presence of the British military in North America.
What was the Sugar Act of 1764 (an extension of the Molasses Act) problematic?
Collection of the tax & smuggling to avoid paying the tax were now strictly punished.
The tax was doubled.
The tax was cut in half.
All of the above.
How did the enforcement of the Sugar Act break English legal tradition?
Smugglers were tried in British Admiralty Courts instead of local (leant) jury courts.
Smugglers were tried in local jury courts instead of British Admiralty Courts.
This HIGHLY unpopular tax affected businessmen and lawyers most as it taxed all official documents.
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Act
The Sugar Act
The Intolerable Acts
The Stamp Act was repealed after
the colonists convened and carried out a coordinated boycott.
the colonists tar and feathered all tax collectors in New England.
the colonists began creating their own finished goods.
all of the above.
The Townshend Act taxed what goods?
Paper
Paint
Lead
Tea
Which notable colonial protest got out of hand leading to the death of 5 colonists in possibly the worst outcome of a snowball fight in American History?
The Boston Massacre
Paoli Massacre
Haymarket Affair
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Which two reasons could explain the colonist anger and later "Tea Parting" over The Tea Act which lowered the price of higher quality tea?
Some colonists were upset that cheap tea could cut into the profits of smugglers and established tea merchants.
It was a matter of principle. Allowing the British to tax tea meant that they could tax essentially whatever they wanted.
Some colonists liked lower quality tea that just tastes better. You like what you know!
It was a matter of principle. I'll drink the tea that I want to drink!
The direct result of the Boston Tea Party was the?
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Act
The Sugar Act
The Intolerable Acts
Which Intolerable or Coercive Act put local government under martial law?
Massachusetts Government Act
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
Administration of Justice Act
The Boston Port Act
Which Intolerable or Coercive Act required Bostonians to house & pay for housing of British troops.
Massachusetts Government Act
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
Administration of Justice Act
The Boston Port Act
In September 1774 a group of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Georgia!) met were to coordinate the resistance to the Intolerable Acts becoming the first Continental Congress?
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Charlestown
In what two Massachusetts towns did the American War for Independence begin? As Massachusetts Militia, Minute Men, squared off against British forces. Famously beginning with "the shot heard round the world."
Lexington
Concord
Boston
Scranton
All colonists were pro-revolution.
True
False
In 1775 the Continental Congress sent what petition in an attempt to reconcile with the British Crown?
The Olive Branch Petition
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
The Article of Confederation
Which famous work from the American Revolution by Thomas Paine argued that American were exceptional and distinct from Britain?
Common Sense
American Crisis
A City Upon a Hill
Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God
The main strategy for the British in the first half of the American War of Independence was?
to capture all the cities.
to capture all of the country sides.
to capture all the transportation hubs.
to capture all the rivers.
While the British captured the major cities in the colonies. What major advantages did the colonists have?
The colonists had home field advantage knowing the colonies better than the British.
The colonists had better supply lines than the British.
The colonists had more to gain from holding out for victory.
All of the above
What battle was a much needed victory for the Continental Army following a string of defeats and the loss of many colonial cities. It iconically saw George Washington cross the Delaware River on Christmas morning and surprise a group of Hessian soldiers?
Trenton
Concord
Lexington
Saratoga
What was arguably the most important battle in the northern campaign of the American Revolution as it persuaded the French to assist the colonists against the British?
Saratoga
Trenton
Ticonderoga
Yorktown
What country would bankrupt themselves leading to their own revolution shortly after the American War of Independence?
France
Austria
Spain
Mexico
This climactic battle in the southern campaign saw Lord Cornwallis trapped on a peninsula between the Colonial Army and the French navy?
Yorktown
Saratoga
Trenton
Ticonderoga
