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EXAM REVIEW ****All tests/quizzes from this nine week period should be used to help you identify the correct answers
to the following review questions. 50 -75 questions from this review will be chosen.
What is History? Quiz
1. Define
“History”:_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. Define
“Artifact”:______________________________________________________________________________________
3. List the 4 TOOLS used by historians to help them determine the history of a group of people:
A._____________________ B.______________________C. _____________________ D.______________________
4. A ___________________ source was written or created by a person who witnessed or participated in an event; they
wrote about their own experience.
5. A ___________________ source was written or created by someone who was told about an event or experience of
another person.
Identify each of the following sources as either PRIMARY or SECONDARY – read carefully for context clues and key
words that may help you decide.
_________________________6. A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon.
___________________________7. A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite.
__________________________8. A painting by Leonardo DaVinci
__________________________9. The Gettysburg Address
__________________________10. A biography entitled, “George Washington, the Man Who Would Be King.”
___________________________11. A famous artist’s painting of what cowboy life was probably like in the 1850’s.
__________________________12. An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone.
___________________________13. A short story describing Thomas Edison and Nikolia Tesla’s “electrical battle.”
___________________________14. An autobiography about the 40th President, Ronald Reagan.
___________________________15. A play showing how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm.
___________________________16. Anne Frank’s diary describing her life during WW2.
____________________________17. A letter from a cowboy about his cattle drives from Texas to Kansas.
____________________________18. A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built.
____________________________19. A textbook describing the Civil Rights Movement.
______________________________20. A news report about the opening of a power plant.
_______________________________21. A cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith
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Chapters 3 & 4 (Colonization)
22.Which were the New England Colonies?
(4)__________________________________________________________________________________________
23. Which were the Middle Colonies? (4) ________________________________________________________________
24.Which were the Southern Colonies?(5) ______________________________________________________________
25. Most colonists to the American Colonies came from ________________________
26.At first Native Americans in New England helped settlers ________________________________________
27. After the Europeans arrived, what did thousands of Native Americans die from? _____________________
28. Most enslaved Africans in North America lived and worked ___________________________________________
29. Settlers in these colonial regions came to the New World because they wanted to practice their own religion:
________________________________ and _________________________________
30. Settlers in these colonial regions came to the New World because they wanted to make money:
_______________________________ and _____________________________________
31. Settlers in this colonial region lived in small farming and fishing communities: __________________
32. This colonial region was almost an entirely agricultural society:
___________________________
33. This colonial region was part agricultural and part industrial: ________________________
34. This colonial region had cash crops of tobacco, rice, and indigo:
______________________
35. This colonial region grew wheat and other grains (“Breadbasket Colonies”) __________________
36. The settlers of this colonial region made most of their money from trade and shipping ____________________
37. Plantations in this region were worked by enslaved labor: ___________________________
*****The French and Indian War ******
38. A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies is called: _________________________
39. The goals of the Albany Plan of Union were to cement an alliance with Native tribes and __________________________
40. The Seven Years' War was a war between ____________________________ and ___________________________.
__41. What plan called for one general government for all the American colonies? ___________________________________
42. The Treaty of Paris marked the end of power in North America for _________________________________
43. Which man changed Britain's fortune in the war with France by becoming Prime Minister? (turning point) ____________
46. What was the small post/fort in the Ohio country established by George Washington called? ____________________
47. What document marked the end of France as a power in North America?____________________________________
48. After the treaty was signed in 1763, the North American continent was divided between which two countries?
________________________________________ & __________________________
49. The Proclamation of 1763 called for _______________________________________
50. The Albany Plan of Union was not approved by Parliament because they did not want to give the colonists any political
or military ____________________.
51. Identify which countries gained each of the following territories as a result of the peace treaty which ended the French
and Indian War:
A. Florida:_________________________
B. New Orleans:____________________
C. All French lands east of the Mississippi River (except New Orleans):_______________
D. All French lands west of the Mississippi River:___________________________
E. New France (Canada):_____________________________
***Chapter 5 ***Road to Revolution
52. The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of the ______________________
53. The British government tried to stop smuggling with the __________________________
54. Who led the Green Mountain Boys? ________________________________
55. What act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies? __________________________
56. The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was: ______________________________
57. Who was chosen as president of the Second Continental Congress? _______________________
58. Who wrote Common Sense?___________________________________
59. To search a colonist’s house, a British customs officer presented a: _________________________
60. Which colonists did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion? ___________________
61. Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American Independence? ____________________
62. The colonists expressed their desire for peace and protection in the _______________________
63. The Declaratory Act stated that _________________________________________________
64. The colonists claimed that Parliament did not have the right to tax them because
_____________________________________________________________________
65. Colonists objected to both writs of assistance and the Quartering Act because
____________________________________________.
66. The chief goal of the Tea Act was to: _____________________________________________
67. The battle generally associated with the phrase, “…here the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard
‘round the world.” ____________________________________
68. The first major battle of the Revolutionary War was:__________________________
69. Patriot forces were _____________________in this first major battle.
70. The Declaration of Independence was adopted/signed by the Second Continental Congress on:
_______________________________________________
71. The expression “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” appears in ---- ___________________
72. Which is the fundamental principle of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence?
__________________________________________________________
73. Delegates from twelve colonies gathered in Philadelphia at the ___________________________
to unite against the Intolerable Acts.
74. Members of the _________________ signed pledges against drinking tea to protest the Tea Act.
75. Sam Adams organized the first ____________________ to inform colonists about British actions.
76. Ben Franklin proposed the ________________________________ during the French and Indian War which called
for a council with representatives from each colony.
77. Delegates from all thirteen colonies gathered at the ____________________________ to appoint a military leader
and prepare for war.
78. ______________________ Act : Lowered a tax on imports of foreign molasses in order to stop colonial smuggling.
79. The _______________________ Event was used as “propaganda” to encourage colonial resistance against the
British.
80. The ___________________________ Act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
81. The __________________________________ gave Canada, Florida and all French lands east of the Mississippi River
to Britain.
82. The _____________________________Acts were restrictions passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the Boston
Tea Party.
83. The ___________________________ taxed all printed / legal documents.
84. The __________________________ required colonists to pay for the housing and feeding of British soldiers.
85. A protest by the Sons of Liberty against a monopoly by the British East India Company was given the
name_____________________________________.
86. The _________________________________ taxed imported goods of glass, lead, paper, paint and tea.
87. The ___________________________________Limited colonial westward expansion - - colonist felt this was a limit
on their freedom.