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History Test 9th grade

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 3hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

.

Which Colony was the first to promote religious tolerance?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Maryland

c)

Charles Town

d)

Carolinas

2.

What is the Toleration act of 1649

a)

outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.

b)

It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual

c)

It allowed most dissenters the freedom to worship publicly, provided they took a simplified version of the oath of allegiance.

d)

laws relating to slavery and enslaved people

3.

True or False: The Toleration Act stopped all religious conflicts 

a)

True 

b)

False

4.

Why did more enslaved Africans live in South Carolina?

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5.

TRUE OR FALSE: Are Pilgrim and Puritans the same?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What is the Mayflower Compact

a)

the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the US

b)

is a document guaranteeing English political liberties

c)

a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good

7.

Who is Squanto?

a)

a member of the Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims

b)

daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief

c)

was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father

8.

In what way were women essential to the middle colonies?

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9.

What is the English Bill of Rights?

a)

gave all non-conformists, except Roman Catholics, freedom of worship, thus rewarding Protestant dissenters for their refusal to side with James II.

b)

This act reduced the powers of the English monarch

c)

declaring the sovereign to be subject to the rule of law and documenting the liberties held by “free men,”

10.

True or False: Georgia and Virginia are part of the Southern Colonies

a)

True 

b)

False 

11.

What is the Enlightenment?

a)

the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

b)

movement that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society

c)

was a period of radical political and societal change in France

12.

Colonist used ______ to control local affairs. Reflected the beliefs of their local communities

a)

triangular trade

b)

town meetings

c)

colonial courts

13.

True or False: England claimed that the Navigation Acts were good for the colonies. All the colonies agree to this

a)

True 

b)

False 

14.

Why was taxation with no representation a big issue for the colonist?

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15.

True or False was the Boston Massacre overexaggerated for propaganda purposes?

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Which one is a cause of the discomfort in the colonies, that eventually lead to the revolution?

a)

Taxation without representation

b)

Intolerable Acts

c)

Boston Massacre (and further military presence in the colonies)

d)

All of them

17.

Who were the patriots?

a)

Colonist who were loyal to Great Britain

b)

the colonist who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain

c)

Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends

d)

English Protestants who wished to separate from the perceived corruption of the Church of England

18.

What is the importance of the First and Second Continental Congress?

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19.

The first permanent English settlement in North America is...

a)

Maryland

b)

Washington D.C

c)

Jamestown

d)

New York