WorksheetsReview Quiz #1 2023 US History
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
This was the main factor that fueled colonists to come to North America.
religious opportunity
economic opportunity
gold
political opportunity
A system in which the king tried to increase his nation's wealth by having colonies only trade with the mother country.
triangular trade
cash crop
joint stock company
mercantilsim
Which group of colonies were defined by villages with town meetings, small farms and commercial fishing, and the first American college?
New England Colonies
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Spanish Colonies
Because of the fertile land and a long growing season, plantations in the thirteen colonies developed in the
New England Colonies
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Upper Ohio Valley
During the colonial period, the economic development of the South was most directly dependent on the labor of
factory workers
wheat farmers
Irish immigrants
enslaved Africans
What principle that later influenced the development of representative government came from the Magna Carta?
rule of law
federalism
self-government
separation of powers
During the early to mid-1700s, the British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies contributed to
a decline in colonial maufacturing
the decline of slavery in the northern colonies
a decrease in French and Spanish influence in North America
the development of independent colonial trade practices
Which feature of government was developed most fully during the colonial era?
separation of church and state
universal suffrage
an independent court system
representative assemblies
During the colonial period, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented
colonial attempts to build a strong national government
steps in the growth of representative democracy
efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies
early social reform movements
What was the main cause of the French and Indian War (1754-1763)?
disputed land claims in the Ohio River Valley between the French and the British
conflicts between American colonists and the French over control of the Great Plains
taxation of American colonists without representation in Parliament
violation of trade agreements between European nations and Native Americans
the Intolerable Acts
the Stamp Act
the Tea Act
the Townsend Acts
Who wrote "Common Sense" a pamphlet that inspired many to become patriots?
Thomas Gage
Thomas Paine
John Locke
Thomas Jefferson
The slogan of the British colonists resisting the Stamp Act.
Once more unto the breach!
No taxation without representation!
Give me liberty or give me death!
To be or not to be, that is the question.
The law stating the Colonists could not expand west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Stamp Act
No Taxation without Representation
Proclamation of 1763
