WorksheetsColonial America Quiz 2
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who owns the colonial plantations?
Large landowners
Merchants
Artisans
Farmers
What colonial people worked their land according to their region and relied on family members for labor?
Farmers
Indentured Servants
Coopers
Enslaved African Americans
What type of colonists bought and sold goods to and with other colonists?
Merchants
Fishermen
Farmers
Large landowners
What are skilled workers who use tools to perform a craft?
Artisans
Merchants
Farmers
Indentured servants
What was an artisan's social status?
High
Medium
Low
None
What artisan made nails, hinges, farm tools, and iron rims for wheels?
Blacksmith
Founder
Cobbler
Wheelwright
What artisan made barrels and casks used to ship and store?
Cooper
Cobbler
Carpenter
Cabinetmaker
What artisan worked with brass and bronze to make bells, buckles, candlesticks, swords, and other items molded out of metals?
Founder
Blacksmith
Silversmith
Wigmaker
What artisan made the stylish item of the day for wealthy men?
Wigmaker
Wheelwright
Gunsmith
Tailor
Who worked as homemakers and caregivers by taking care of children, mending clothes, preparing meals, and looking after animals?
Women
Indentured servants
Enslaved African Americans
Artisans
What was the social status of women?
High
Medium
Low
None
Who were laborers who could not afford passage to the colonies and agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for their voyage?
Indentured servants
Farmers
Women
Enslaved African Americans
Who were the laborers that were owned as property for life and had no rights?
Enslaved African Americans
Indentured Servants
Artisans
Farmers
What two royal houses rule the British throne during colonial America?
House of Stuart and House of Hanover
House of Hapsburg and House of Bourbon
House of Tudor and House of Romanov
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and House of Windsor
What is the legislative body of England and Great Britain?
Parliament
Congress
General Assembly
Senate
What civil war occurs from 1688-1689 where Catholic James II is replaced by Protestant William III and Mary II, the English Bill of Rights is established, and England becomes a Constitutional Monarchy?
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution
American Revolution
French Revolution
What will be the title of the Lord chosen to lead Parliament, advise the monarch, and assist in governing and ruling the British Empire?
Prime Minister
President
Governor
Senator
What American colonial executive is appointed by the British monarch, enforced British taxes and laws, supervised the colonial legislator, and was the commander of the colonial militia?
Governor
Prime Minister
Speaker of the House
Mayor
What piece of land is disputed between the French and British Empires in 1753 and that dispute will lead to the French and Indian War?
Ohio River Valley
Mississippi River Valley
Great Lakes Region
New River Valley
What 22 year old Colonial Militia Major is sent by the Governor of Virginia in 1754 to claim the Forks of the Ohio for Britain and Virginia?
George Washington
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Boone
Simon Kenton
Which of the following American Indian Nations is NOT an ally of France during the French and Indian War?
Iroquois League
Shawnee
Ottawa
Wabanaki Confederacy
When does the French and Indian War occur?
1754-1763
1756-1763
1775-1783
1714-1723
The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War in Europe, was fought between the British and French Empires where?
North America
North American and Europe
North American, South America, and Africa
the entire globe
Which of the following is NOT a major location fought over in North America during the French and Indian War?
Forks of the Ohio
Lake Champlain
Canada
Louisiana
What expedition to capture Fort Duquesne ends for the British as a major defeat?
Braddock expedition
British expedition
Wilderness expedition
Ohio expedition
Which of the following is NOT land Britain gains from the Treaty of Paris 1763?
Canada
French land east of the Mississippi River
Florida (from Spain)
Louisiana
What law ordered American colonists to stay east of the Appalachian Mountains and strained British and American relations as much as any taxes?
Proclamation Line of 1763
Townsend Acts
Coercive Acts
Proclamation of George III and Parliament
Bonus: What determines how wealthy someone is in Colonial America?
(a)
Bonus: What type of source is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study?
(a)
