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A10-Q
Most port cities were
located in
a.New England
b.The Southern colonies
c. The Middle colonies
d.The West Indies
A10-A
a. New England
A20-Q
What is the name of the
vast mountain range on the
east coast of the United
States?
a.Appalachian Mountains
b.Rocky Mountains
c. Andes Mountains
d.Alps
A20-A
a. Appalachian
Mountains
A30-Q
What is the name of the
mighty river in the south that
helped spark transportation,
trading, and commerce in the
United States?
a. Hudson River
b. Ohio River
c. Mississippi River
d. Rio Grande River
A30-A
c. Mississippi
River
A40-Q
What is the largest
mountain range in the
United States?
a. Appalachian Mountains
b. Rocky Mountains
c. Catskill Mountains
d. Ural Mountains
A40-A
b. Rocky Mountains
As a result of the French & Indian
War and the Treaty of Paris 1763,
what did Britain gain?
a.
French lands west of the Mississippi
River, including New Orleans
b.
West Indies
c.
Islands near Newfoundland
d.
All of North America east of the
Mississippi River, including Florida
A50-Q
A50-A
d. All of North America
east of the Mississippi
River, including Florida
B10-Q
What was the first permanent
British settlement in North
America?
a. Newfoundland & Nova Scotia
b. Massachusetts Bay Colony
c. Jamestown
d. Florida
B10-A
c. Jamestown
B20-Q
What was similar about
where the early colonial
settlements were located?
a. At the base of a mountain range
b. near the coastline
c. in an arid climate
d. on an offshore island
B20-A
b. near the
coastline
B30-Q
During the early to mid-1700’s,
the British Policy of salutary
neglect toward the American
colonies contributed to
a. a decline in colonial manufacturing
b.
the decline of slavery in the northern
colonies
c.
the development of independent
colonial trade practices
B30-A
c. the development
of independent
colonial trade
practices
B40-Q
Which of the following statements
is true about triangular trade?
a. Colonists were sending finished products to
England and England was sending slaves to
the colonies.
b. Colonists were sending raw materials to
England, while Africa was sending gold, sugar
and molasses to England.
c. Colonists were sending raw materials to
England, while receiving finished products
from England and slaves from Africa.
c. Colonists were sending
raw materials to England,
while receiving finished
products from England
and slaves from Africa.
B40-A
B50-Q
During the colonial period,
the British Parliament used
the policy of mercantilism
to
a. limit manufacturing in America.
b. prevent criticism of royal policies.
c. deny representation to the colonists.
d. force colonists to worship in the
Anglican church.
B50-A
a. limit manufacturing
in America.
C10-Q
Who were the Enlightenment
thinkers that had the
greatest influence on the
ideas stated in the
Declaration of Independence?
a. Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau
b. Anthos, Aramis, Porthos and D'Artagnan
c. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy
Roosevelt
d. Socrates, Aristotle, Plato
C10-A
a.
Locke, Voltaire,
Montesquieu and
Rousseau
C20-Q
In writing the Declaration of
Independence, Thomas
Jefferson was influenced
most by John Locke’s idea
of?
a. Due process of law
b. Natural rights
c. The rights of the accused
d. The right to privacy
C20-A
b. Natural Rights
C30-Q
His writings became the
basis of the 1st
Amendment and the
Freedom of Speech
a. Voltaire
b. Locke
c. Marx
d. Benjamin Franklin
C30-A
a. Voltaire
Who was an outstanding
Enlightenment figure in the
American colonies who
embraced the notion of
obtaining truth through
experimentation and
reasoning?
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. George Washington
c. Paul Revere
d. Samuel Adams
C40-Q
C40-A
a. Benjamin Franklin
C50-Q
What was the Enlightenment
Movement?
a. Government ban on trade with one or
more nations
b. An English Policy of relaxing the
enforcement of regulations in return for
the colonies’ continued economic loyalty
c. An 18th century intellectual movement
that emphasized the use of reason and
scientific method as means of obtaining
knowledge
C50-A
c. An 18th century intellectual
movement that emphasized
the use of reason and
scientific method as means of
obtaining knowledge
D10-Q
The Mayflower Compact
and the House of
Burgesses were important
to the development of
democracy in colonial
America because they
a. Expanded freedom of religion
b. Promoted self-government
c. Protected private ownership of property
d. Granted voting rights to all white males
D10-A
b. Promoted
self-government
D20-Q
Which heading best completes the
partial outline below ?
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1. Stamp Act Congress
2. Non-importation Boycotts
3. Boston Tea Party
4. First Continental Congress
a. Protests Against Slavery in the American Colonies
b. British Parliamentary Actions to Punish Colonies
c. Colonial Responses to British Mercantile Policies
d. Colonial Attempts to End British Policy of Salutary
Neglect
D20-A
c. Colonial Responses
to British
Mercantile Policies
The pamphlet Common
Sense, by Thomas Paine,
aided the American cause in
the Revolutionary War
because it
a. Convinced France to join in the fight
against England
b. Led to the repeal of the Stamp Act
c. Created a new system of government for
the United States
d. Persuaded individuals who were
undecided to support independence
D30-Q
D30-A
d. Persuaded individuals
who were undecided to
support independence
D40-Q
The Albany Plan of Union was
Ben Franklin’s idea to
a. Unify the States
b. Boycott English imports
c. Form a representative body of
government
d. Declare war on Britain
D40-A
c. Form a representative
body of government
D50-Q
The Sons of Liberty were a
group that
a. Protested English tax on the
Colonies
b. Established the Virginia House of
Burgesses
c. Employed the Iroquois Indians
during the French and Indian War
d. Spread the words of the
Enlightenment in the colonies
D50-A
a. Protested English tax
on the Colonies
In the passage of the Tea
Act of 1773, Parliament
intended to
a. Double the tax on tea and increase
government revenues
b. Punish the colonists for their boycott of tea
c. Repeal the controversial tax on tea
d. Rescue the financially struggling East India
Company who had a monopoly on tea
production
E10-Q
E10-A
d. Rescue the financially
struggling East India
Company who had a
monopoly on tea
production
E20-Q
The Stamp Act was
a. Designed to raise revenue for
Great Britain
b. A tax collected by British customs
agents
c. Unpopular with American colonists
d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
E20-A
d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
E30-Q
In the Colonial Era,
developments such as the New
England town meetings and the
establishment of the Virginia
House of Burgesses represented
a. Colonial attempts to build a strong
national government
b. Efforts by the British to strengthen their
control over the colonies
c. Steps in the growth of representative
democracy
d. Early social reform movements
E30-A
c. Steps in the growth of
representative
democracy
E40-Q
In 1774, King George
III tightened control
over Massachusetts by
imposing the
a. Boston Massacre
b. Intolerable Acts
c. Salutary neglect
d. Townshend Acts
E40-A
b. Intolerable
Acts
E50-Q
Which British action
prohibited all settlement
or fur trapping west of the
Appalachian Mountains?
a. Navigation Acts
b. Quartering Acts
c. Townshend Acts
d. Proclamation of 1763
E50-A
d. Proclamation of 1763