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WorksheetsFALL FINAL REVIEW OR USH
Total questions: 64
Worksheet time: 32mins
Which statement best describes the Puritans in England before colonization?
A Protestant sect aiming to purify the Anglican Church of Roman Catholic practices
A Catholic order seeking closer ties with the Anglican hierarchy
A political party advocating separation of church and state in England
An economic guild overseeing colonial trade
In what year did a large group of Puritans found the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
1607
1620
1630
1676
What was the purpose of the phrase City upon a Hill for the new settlement?
To encourage military expansion into native lands
To make the colony’s religious mission clear and emphasize giving
To announce independence from England
To promote secular government over church authority
Which English settlement was the first permanent one in North America?
Plymouth
Jamestown
Roanoke
New Amsterdam
Who were the Pilgrims/Separatists in early colonial America?
Anglicans promoting state churches in the colonies
Separatists who established Plymouth and insisted on complete separation from the English church
French Huguenots seeking alliance with England
Quakers founding Pennsylvania to promote pacifism
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A trade agreement between Plymouth and Jamestown
The first agreement for self-government in America signed in 1620 by men aboard the Mayflower
A peace treaty with the Wampanoag in 1630
An act from Parliament granting colonial charters
Who were indentured servants in the Chesapeake colonies?
Skilled artisans hired for wages
Young men or women bound by labor contracts to work for years on tobacco plantations
Convicted criminals transported for life sentences
Native laborers paid monthly
Which description fits Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676?
A royal crackdown on Quaker meetings
A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon involving white and black colonists who distrusted government land policies and sought to eliminate Native peoples seen as obstacles to wealth
A slave uprising on Caribbean plantations
An urban protest against mercantilist trade laws
Who was John Winthrop in Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A Quaker founder of Pennsylvania
The first Puritan governor and speaker of City upon a Hill
Leader of the Salem Witchcraft trials
Author of the Navigation Acts
Which work is associated with Puritan ideals as a model of charity and community?
Common Sense
A Model of Christian Charity
The Federalist No. 10
Of Plymouth Plantation
Which statement best describes Anne Hutchinson’s challenge to Puritan authority?
She promoted monarchy over republican government
She argued Protestantism created hierarchy and emphasized a covenant of works rather than a covenant of grace
She called for stricter church-state union
She demanded military rule in the colony
What is a key fact about the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692?
Only men were accused and none were executed
Puritans who believed in the supernatural accused innocents; 19 victims were executed and more deaths occurred
They ended with a royal pardon for all accused
They took place primarily in Jamestown
Which colonial leader founded Rhode Island based on the separation of church and state after being ordered to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Smith
Roger Williams
William Bradford
William Penn
What was Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War) from 1675–1676?
A naval conflict between England and France
A period of bloody conflict between Wampanoag Indians and Puritan settlers in New England, reflecting Indian resistance to English expansion
A rebellion of indentured servants in Pennsylvania
A trade dispute over the Navigation Acts
Which leader sought to stop English seizure of Wampanoag land during King Philip’s War?
John Winthrop
Metacom (King Philip)
Roger Williams
William Penn
Who were the Quakers in colonial Pennsylvania?
Military settlers sent by the Crown
Pennsylvania’s first colonizers migrating for religious purposes, known for inner light and rejecting worldly rank
Spanish missionaries establishing missions
Planters importing large numbers of enslaved Africans
Which statement about William Penn is accurate?
He seized land from Native nations without negotiation
He was granted land to settle his father’s debt, founding the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a Quaker
He governed Massachusetts Bay after Winthrop
He authored the Mayflower Compact
Which colony relied most heavily on indentured servants according to the worksheet?
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
What was the Middle Passage?
A land route from New England to the Ohio Valley
The ocean route from West African ports to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade, typically a two-month transatlantic crossing
A canal linking New York and the Great Lakes
The path of Puritan migration from England to Massachusetts
Which description fits the Navigation Acts under Charles II?
Laws promoting colonial self-government
Policies established to gain more control over American trade in line with mercantilism
A declaration of colonial religious freedom
A treaty ending King Philip’s War
What was Salutary Neglect in the English colonial system?
Strict enforcement of trade regulations to raise revenue
An English policy of relaxing enforcement of regulations in the colonies in exchange for continued economic loyalty
Mandatory military service for colonists
A prohibition on town meetings in New England
Which colonial region is associated with Pilgrims and Separatists?
Chesapeake colonies
New England
Southern backcountry
Middle colonies
In the early colonial period of United States history, what democratic quality was present in some colonies?
Universal adult suffrage
Election of colony leaders by eligible voters
Direct popular election of the British monarch
Secret ballots for all town decisions
Thinking about systems of power in colonial government, how was labor in early colonial America influenced by economic demands, social class, and race?
Reliance on skilled guild artisans recruited from Europe
Widespread peasant ownership of small farms
Heavy use of indentured servants to meet tobacco labor demands, targeting poor and often illiterate workers
Limited plantation labor due to strict royal bans
How does John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity” reflect the idea of forming an American identity among Puritan settlers in New England?
By promoting individual profit over community
By urging continual charity and communal support to build a better colony
By calling for separation of church and state
By discouraging any migration to New England
How did Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion impact the different groups involved?
It united British officials and Native allies against colonists
It was an uprising that drew in both Black and white colonists on the frontier
It ended plantation slavery in Virginia
It strengthened the royal governor’s authority without violence
What did the Salem Witch Trials (1692–1693) reveal about colonial society in the late seventeenth century?
A well-balanced society with broad opportunities for women
A secular society with minimal religious influence
A society less stable than assumed, shaped by harsh religious ideals that limited women’s power
A society dominated entirely by economic concerns rather than religion
John Locke argued that government has a responsibility to protect certain rights. Which set of rights did he emphasize?
Order, obedience, and taxation
Honor, privilege, and monarchy
Life, liberty, and property
Trade, navigation, and tariffs
Which description best captures the First Great Awakening?
A political revolt against Parliament
An emotional religious movement that split communities into Old Light and New Light
A royal program to expand Anglican schools
A diplomatic alliance between colonists and France
Who was Jonathan Edwards in the context of the First Great Awakening?
A British general during the Seven Years’ War
A Puritan minister known for sermons such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
A colonial governor who opposed revivals
A Deist philosopher from France
George Whitefield’s role during the Great Awakening is best described as what?
A legislator who drafted the Stamp Act
An English clergyman whose persuasive sermons drew large crowds and urged salvation, including during his 1739 tour
A merchant who organized colonial boycotts
A scientist who wrote on rationalism
What idea most clearly defines the American Enlightenment as referenced on the worksheet?
Submission to royal divine right
Pursuit of reason linked to thinkers such as Locke, Newton, and Voltaire
Exclusive reliance on emotional revivals
Rejection of science in favor of tradition
The Seven Years’ War in North America is also called what?
War of 1812
French and Indian War
Glorious Revolution
Pequot War
During the Seven Years’ War, which alliance commonly opposed the British in North America?
French forces and many Native groups
Spanish settlers and Puritan ministers
Dutch traders and enslaved Africans
Colonial governors and Parliament
What was a major outcome of the Seven Years’ War in the Americas?
Britain lost all colonies in North America
France’s political presence in the mainland colonies was largely eliminated
The colonies declared independence immediately
Spain gained Canada
What did the Proclamation of 1763 establish regarding westward settlement?
Unlimited white settlement beyond the Mississippi
A line barring white settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Immediate land grants to all veterans in the Ohio Valley
An end to all Native land claims east of the Appalachians
Which provision was central to the Sugar Act of 1764 as noted on the worksheet?
A tax on printed materials
Elimination of vice-admiralty courts
Lowered duties on molasses while tightening enforcement against smuggling
Legalization of colonial paper money
What did the Stamp Act of 1765 require in the colonies?
Taxes only on imported tea
Registration of all weapons
A tax on printed papers and legal documents
Compulsory military service
What were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
Royal tax collectors
Organizations that led protests, organized boycotts, aided colonial resistance, and helped American soldiers
Missionary societies promoting Old Light practices
Groups that supported the Stamp Act
What principle does the phrase “No taxation without representation” express?
Colonists supported all taxes if collected locally
Colonists opposed any tax unless they had representation in Britain’s Parliament
Colonists demanded only property taxes
Colonists favored military governors to oversee taxes
Which factors sparked colonial desires for independence according to the worksheet? Select all that apply.
No taxation without representation
The Glorious Revolution’s influence
Harsh laws threatening colonial liberties
Generous British subsidies to colonial newspapers
How did New Light modes of worship challenge Old Light practices in colonial America?
By banning sermons altogether
Through evangelical revivals that rejected traditional Old Light authority, exemplified by figures like James Davenport
By insisting on strict adherence to Anglican liturgy
By promoting royal taxation during services
Which intellectual current motivated some colonial groups to consider independence?
Deism emphasizing reason-based belief
Absolute monarchy as a divinely ordained system
Mercantilism enforced through Navigation Acts
Mysticism rejecting any rational inquiry
How did the Seven Years' War influence colonies to work as a collective, and how did the war encourage colonists to see themselves differently in the long term?
It strengthened loyalty to the monarchy and ended colonial dissent
It led colonies to band together and boycott taxation
It prompted colonists to request more royal governors
It caused colonists to abandon intercolonial cooperation
What were the causes of anti‑British sentiments during the colonial America period, and how did people in America begin to support the idea of a self‑governing nation?
Stamp Act
Toleration Acts
Quartering Act
Navigation Acts limited to shipbuilding only
John Adams
America's first Vice‑President and second President who sponsored the American Revolution in Massachusetts and defended freedom of the press
A British general who led troops at the Boston Massacre
The first Governor of Georgia appointed by George II
A French diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Paris 1783
Benjamin Franklin
Printer, author, inventor, diplomat, statesman, and Founding Father noted for discoveries in electricity
Commander‑in‑Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston
Primary author of Common Sense
Townshend Acts
Direct tax on property ownership in all colonies
A set of duties passed in 1767 on lead, glass, paint, and tea
Repeal of the Stamp Act and Quartering Act
Law granting colonial assemblies control over customs houses
Boston Massacre
Colonial protest where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor
First bloodshed of the American Revolution in 1770 when British guards at the Boston Customs House fired on a crowd
A treaty ending the French and Indian War
A tax policy that placed duties on sugar and molasses
Patriots and Loyalists
Patriots were loyal to the King; Loyalists sought independence
Patriots were colonial rebels; Loyalists were loyal to the King and England
Both supported independence but disagreed on taxation
Patriots supported the national bank; Loyalists supported agrarianism
Boston Tea Party
A 1773 protest in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor
An agreement to boycott British textiles
The formal declaration of independence from Britain
A meeting of colonial delegates to write a new constitution
Tea Act of 1773
Law allowing the British East India Company to sell low‑cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants and leading to the Boston Tea Party
Repeal of all duties on imported tea
Colonial statute establishing local tea monopolies
Tax that applied only to tea grown in the colonies
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
Enacted in 1765
Enacted in 1767
Enacted in 1774
Enacted in 1783
Continental Congress
Local town meeting that planned the Boston Tea Party
The legislative assembly of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution
British Parliament's colonial oversight committee
Royal court convened to try colonists for treason
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
Pamphlet urging reconciliation with Britain and stronger royal authority
Pamphlet published in 1776 by a British‑born writer encouraging colonial independence and turning public opinion in favor of Revolution
Treatise defending mercantilism and imperial taxes
Series of essays supporting Loyalist resistance to colonial rebels
Declaration of Independence
Royal decree granting home rule to the colonies
Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States a free state
Agreement ending the Revolutionary War and setting borders
Colonial law establishing a national bank
George Washington and the Continental Army
British commander who suppressed colonial rebellions
Commander‑in‑Chief of the Continental Army whose prior service in the French and Indian War helped him lead American troops in the Revolutionary War
French general who negotiated with Parliament
Primary author of the Articles of Confederation
Treaty of Paris 1783
Agreement between Britain and France ending the Seven Years' War
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, recognized American independence, and granted territory from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River and from southern Canada to northern Florida
Act imposing taxes on imported tea
Pact forming the Continental Army
What ideas, events, or movements led to the American Revolution, and how revolutionary would the new American nation be?
Imperial reform
Religious revivalism only
Creation of the national bank
Immediate extension of full political rights to all residents
How did the rhetoric of Thomas Paine's Common Sense convince many colonists it was necessary to sever ties with Britain?
It praised the monarchy’s equal treatment of the colonies
It provided evidence that the king and monarchy did not treat the colonies equally, encouraging opposition to Britain
It argued that taxation without representation was fair
It urged colonists to accept permanent royal governors
How revolutionary was the American Revolution, and who specifically would be excluded from the benefits of winning the war?
Most benefits went to all adults regardless of status
Excluded groups included women, children, and those who were not white
Only Loyalists were excluded
Only enslaved people were excluded while women gained full suffrage
Are there any shortcomings of the Constitution?
No, it created a strong central government able to tax and pass laws by simple majority from the start
The Articles of Confederation created a weak government that could not collect taxes and required a super‑majority to pass laws with a single‑house body of delegates
Its only flaw was too many checks and balances
It immediately granted universal suffrage
Anti‑Federalists vs. Federalists perspectives on the new Constitution
Anti‑Federalists
Farm interests and support of the many; agricultural evolution
Federalists
Support of the wealthy, national bank; factory‑based evolution
Leaders associated
Jefferson and Hamilton, respectively
How did Thomas Jefferson fare in keeping true to his Anti‑Federalist/Republican beliefs when confronted with political realities as president?
He refused territorial expansion on constitutional grounds and resigned
He opposed the Louisiana Purchase as unconstitutional but justified completing it as the better option
He abolished all federal taxes to preserve states’ rights
He created a national bank to strengthen the wealthy
