WorksheetsUS.Unit 1 Exam 2024
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. What colony was first settled by the Virginia Company in 1607, and became the first successful English colony in North America?
a)
Roanoke
b)
Jamestown
c)
Plymouth
d)
Massachusetts
2.
2. What cash crop brought to Jamestown by John Rolfe, became the savior of the colony?
a)
Indigo
b)
Cotton
c)
Tobacco
d)
Rice
3.
3. What was the primary reason for the founding of the New England colonies?
a)
Settlers were looking to find gold in Massachusetts off of which to make money.
b)
Settlers were looking to make money for Great Britain to aid the mercantalist system.
c)
Settlers wanted to establish it as a safe haven for the Quakers being persecuted in England.
d)
Settlers were seeking to escape religious persecution in England and obtain religious freedom.
4.
4. What trade route was a horrible route for enslaved Africans being forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of West Africa to North America?
a)
Trans-Atlantic Trade Route
b)
Middle Passage
c)
Atlantic Trade Route
d)
Northeastern Route
5.
5. What economic theory pushed Great Britain to create colonies in North America in order to supply them with raw materials and a market for finished goods.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Colonialism
c)
Neoclassical
d)
Marxism
6.
6. Which of the following best defines the term "Salutary Neglect"?
a)
A period of relaxed enforcement of the laws
b)
A religious revival that reshaped American beliefs
c)
An economic policy which used colonies for raw materials
d)
A policy of westward expansion into Native American held lands
7.
7. What were two of the primary exports of the colonial region pictured here?
a)
Paper and Rice
b)
Lumber and Fish
c)
Tobacco and Cotton
d)
Furniture and Indigo
8.
8. What event occurred due to the souring relationship between settlers and Natives in New England?
a)
The Pequot War
b)
King Philip's War
c)
The Starving Time
d)
The French and Indian War
9.
9. Which of the following was the first representative government established in the colonies?
a)
The Mayflower Compact
b)
The House of Burgesses
c)
The Continental Congress
d)
The Declaration of Independence
10.
10. Which region of colonies was characterized by: religious and ethnic diversity, exports including paper and textiles, and a large business and trade center.
a)
Middle
b)
New England
c)
Southern
d)
Western
11.
11 Many slave owners made a habit of purchasing slaves from different countries in Africa. Which of the following best describes a result of that?
a)
Slaves began to immediately plan successful slave revolts in the southern colonies.
b)
This made it easier for families to trace their ancestry back to the the 17th century in Africa.
c)
Slaves began to mix their differing African cultures to create their own unique culture.
d)
African families were able to stay together for generations.
12.
12. What is the subject of the image here?
a)
Enslaved Africans taken to the Americas
b)
Molasses going from Europe to the Caribbean
c)
Merchants bringing rum to Africa
d)
Missionaries going to Africa from England
13.
13. Select the TWO that apply to the Southern colonies.
a)
relied heavily on a cash-crop economy
b)
lived in cities centered around churches
c)
lived in largely independent rural plantations
d)
largest exports were iron and lumber
14.
14. What was the biggest effect of the Great Awakening in the colonies?
a)
Many people began to lose their faith
b)
A revival of fiction literature based on old European folk tales
c)
Many colonists to become staunch abolitionists and slavery begin to become less popular
d)
Brought colonists together and gave them a sense of community
15.
15. What trade route is seen in the image below?
a)
Silk Road
b)
Trans-Atlantic Trade Route
c)
Spice Route
d)
American-European Trade Route
16.
16. The quote below would have been read during which movement in the colonies? "God will not hold them (sinners) up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost." -Jonathan Edwards, 1741 from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" -Jonathan Edwards
a)
The Enlightenment
b)
The Great Awakening
c)
The French and Indian War
d)
The Salem Witch Trials
17.
17. This man founded Pennsylvania as a haven for the Quakers who were being persecuted in England.
a)
William Penn
b)
James Oglethorpe
c)
Sir Walter Raleigh
d)
John Rolfe
18.
18. Explain how people, geography, and climate led the colonies to develop into three distinct regions. What is the most important difference between the regions and why?
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19.
19. How did Salutary Neglect lead to greater feelings of independence in the colonies? Consider initiatives by colonists to form their own governments and religion.
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