Puritans settled in Massachusetts. 1.True 2.False 1245
What type of community did they create? 1.Covenant 2.Social Contract 3.Joint Stock 12345
Puritans came to America 1.To make money 2.For religious freedom 3.For political freedom 12345
What document did they sign to create a government? 1.The Constitution 2.The Mayflower Compact 12345
How did they treat other religious groups? 1.With Tolerance 2.Intolerant 12345
Town meetings are examples of direct democracy 1.Yes 2.No 12345
Puritans believed in laziness and spending money. 1.True 2.False 12345
Which is NOT one of the 3 G’s for exploration? 1.Gold 2.Glory 3.Grace 4.God 12345
The English settled along the Atlantic coast. 1.Yes 2.No 12345
The Spanish settled in Canada. 1.True 2.False 12345
Who had a good relationship with the Native Americans because of trade? The English 2.The Spanish 3.The French
Which of the following was a joint stock company? Jamestown 2.Massachusetts 3.Georgia
Jamestown was founded in Yes 2.No 12345
Who founded Jamestown and got it through the “Starving Time”? John Rolfe 2.John Smith
John Rolfe introduces indigo to Jamestown to make money 1.True 2.False 12345
Who did the King give land grants to? Patriots 2.Cavaliers
Where did poor immigrants settle? Eastern Virginia 2.Western Virginia
Who had to work of the debt of their passage to the colonies? Indentured Servants 2.Slaves
What was the first legislative body in the colonies? General Assembly 2.House of Burgesses 3.Articles of Confederation
When do the first slaves arrive in America?
New England colonies were founded to make money through shipbuilding. 1.True 2.False 12345
Who founded Rhode Island? 1.Puritans 2.Religious Dissenters 12345
A church-run state is a 1.Direct democracy 2.autocracy 3.theocracy 12345
Where did Catholics mainly settle? Maryland 2.Pennsylvania 3.New York
Quakers settled in Pennsylvania. 1.Yes 2.No 12345
The economy in the Middle Colonies was based on 1.Agriculture 2.Ship building and fishing 3.Trade 12345
Which of the following was NOT a commercial center? Philadelphia 2.Boston 3.Baltimore 4.New York
Who founded Georgia? 1.Cavaliers 2.Religious dissenters 3.Debtors 12345
What church did the Cavaliers attend? 1.Church of England 2.Baptist 12345
Which was NOT a cash crop? Rice 2.Corn 3.Tobacco 4.Indigo
Which was not involved in the Triangular Trade? Asia 2.Europe 3.The Americas 4.Africa
The Great Awakening led to the creation of evangelical Baptists and Methodists 1.True 2.False 12345
Who preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” during the Great Awakening? Jonathan Edwards 2.Jonathan Winters
What did the ideas of the Great Awakening lead to? The Revolutionary War 2.The French and Indian War 3.The Navigation Acts
What did the King create to control colonial trade? Intolerable Acts 2.Stamp Act 3.Navigation Acts
The French fought the Indians in the French and Indian War 1.Yes 2.No 12345
How did the King keep the colonists from moving West after the F & I War? 1.Intolerable Acts 2.Proclamation of
500 colonists were killed at the Boston Massacre 1.True 2.False 12345
How did the people of Massachusetts protest the tea monopoly? Boston Tea Party 2.Tea Act Congress
What was the punishment for the Boston Tea Party? Intolerable Acts 2.Navigation Acts
What meeting was held to protest the Intolerable Acts? First Continental Congress 2.Second Continental Congress
Georgia did not attend the First Continental Congress 1.True 2.False 12345
Who wrote the Natural Rights of Man? Thomas Jefferson 2.Thomas Hobbes 3.John Locke
What did Thomas Paine write to convince people to break away from England? 1.Common Ground 2.Common Sense 12345
Who influenced Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence? Patrick Henry 2.Thomas Paine 3.John Locke
Who supported independence from England? Loyalists 2.Patriots 3.Neutrals
Who did not take a side during the Revolutionary War? Loyalists 2.Patriots 3.Neutrals
Lexington & Concord mark the beginning of the Revolutionary War 1.Yes 2.No 12345
What did NOT happen at the Second Continental Congress? 1.Created an army 2.Signed Declaration of Independence 3.Drafted the Constitution 4.George Washington chosen to lead army 12345
What colonial victory was used by Ben Franklin to secure a colonial ally for the war? Lexington 2.Saratoga 3.Yorktown
Who was our ally during the Revolutionary War? France 2.Great Britain 3.Spain
What was the final battle of the Revolutionary War? Saratoga 2.Yorktown 3.Bunker Hill
Who was the general of the Continental Army? 1.Andrew Jackson 2.George Washington 12345
Our first real attempt at a government was the First Continental Congress 1.True 2.False 12345
Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation? No common currency 2.No executive 3.No power to tax 4.No legislative branch 5.Couldn’t draft an army
Shay’s Rebellion proved the Articles were too weak. 1.True 2.False 12345
The Constitution balanced power between small and large states 1.True 2.False 12345
All of the following were included in the Virginia Plan EXCEPT: Representation equal 2.Three Branches 3.Federalism 4.Representation by population
George Mason created the Virginia Plan 1.True 2.False 12345
The Great Compromise created a bicameral Congress. 1.True 2.False 12345
What counted slaves as part of the population? 1.Great Compromise 2.Slave Trade Compromise 3.3/5 Compromise 12345
Which isn’t correct? Legislative branch makes laws 2.Executive branch enforces laws 3.Judicial branch makes laws
Who was chosen to preside over the Constitutional Convention? George Washington 2.Thomas Jefferson 3.James Madison
Which is NOT true about James Madison? Father of the Constitution 2.Wrote Virginia Declaration of Rights 3.Created the Virginia Plan 4.Kept copious notes of convention
Federalists believed in a strong national government and wanted to ratify the Constitution. 1.True 2.False 12345
Anti-Federalists thought a national bill of rights was redundant. 1.True 2.False 12345
Anti-Federalists thought the national government would usurp the powers of the states 1.True 2.False 12345
All 13 states were needed to ratify the Constitution 1.True 2.False 12345
Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights? James Madison 2.George Mason 3.Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom? James Madison 2.George Mason 3.Thomas Jefferson
James Madison created the Bill of Rights from the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom 1.True 2.False 12345
Which freedom is NOT included in the First Amendment? 1.speech 2.petition 3.press 4.assembly 5.religion
I will study for my US History 9 weeks test!!! 1.Yes 2.No