2. SSUSH 1

4. This was an English firm that planned to make money by sending people
the America and it was the firm that
established Jamestown as a colony?
A.) Virginia Company
A.) Virginia Company
B.) XYZ Company
C.) Mayflower
D.) New Jersey Co. L F

6. This crop helped the colony of Jamestown
survive, became a major cash crop and
important source of wealth?
A.) Watermelon
B.) Corn
C.) Peanuts
D.) Tobacco
D.) Tobacco L F

8. The increase in production of Tobacco
and the decrease in use of Indentured
servants led what labor source in Virginia?
A.) Hired
B.) Contract
C.) Slavery
C.) Slavery
D.) Indentured Servitude L F

10. This notable Native American chief
and his tribe lived in Virginia when the
settlers arrived but were forced off their
land to make room for more settlers?
A.) Crazy Horse
B.) Powhatan
B.) Powhatan
C.) Pontiac
D.) Sitting Bull L F

12. This was a colonial uprising in Virginia
against the governor by landowners that
had conflicts with Native Americans?
A.) Shay’s Rebellion
B.) Bacon’s Rebellion
B.) Bacon’s Rebellion
C.) Whiskey Rebellion
D.) Firebird’s Rebellion L F

14. This was the first example of Representative
Government in the colonies?
A.) Town Hall meetings
B.) Congress
C.) House of Burgesses
C.) House of Burgesses
D.) Virginia Plan L F

16. This was the 1st permanent English settlement in North America?
A.) Jamestown
A.) Jamestown
B.) Plymouth
C.) Boston
D.) Philadelphia L F

18. This colony was founded by religious
Dissenters from Massachusetts who were
More tolerant of other religions?
A.) Georgia
B.) Pennsylvania
C.) Rhode Island
C.) Rhode Island
D.) Maryland L F

20. This individual was the cofounder of
Rhode Island?
A.) King James I
B.) John Smith
C.) Lord Calvert
D.) Roger Williams
D.) Roger Williams L F

22. This was created by Puritan members
to allow partial church membership for
the children and grandchildren of the
original Puritans?
A.) Half-way Covenant
A.) Half-way Covenant
B.) Baptism
C.) Full Covenant
D.) Partial adoption L F

24. This bloody conflict between English settlers
and Native Americans resulted in heavy
loss of life and land to the Native
Americans in new England?
A.) Battle of Little Bighorn
B.) Powhatan’s War
C.) King Phillip’s War
C.) King Phillip’s War
D.) Wounded Knee L F

26. This was a series of court hearings in
Massachusetts in which colonists were
accused, tried, convicted, and hanged for
Witchcraft?
A.) Scopes Trials
B.) Salem witch trials
B.) Salem witch trial
C.) Nuremburg Trials
D.) Town Meetings L F

28. What did Massachusetts colony lose
when it argued that it did not have to obey
Parliament because it was a corporate
colony?
A.) Voting rights
B.) Taxes were cut
C.) Charter
C.) Charter
D.) Commercial rights L F

30. This was the reason France settled Quebec?
A.) Fur Trade
A.) Fur Trade
B.) Stamp Tax
C.) Proclamation of 1776
D.) Alien & Sedition Acts L F

32. This colony was originally owned by the
Dutch before it became an English colony?
A.) Massachusetts
B.) New York
B.) New York
C.) Pennsylvania
D.) Plymouth L F

33. SSUSH 2 &3

35. This was an example of direct democracy
in the colonies in New England?
A.) Committees of Correspondence
B.) Town Hall meetings
B.) Town Hall meetings
C.) House of Burgesses
D.) Boston Tea Party L F

37. This was an economic system in which
a country attempts to have a favorable
Balance of trade?
A.) Communism
B.) Socialism
C.) Populism
D.) Mercantilism
D.) Mercantilism L F

39. This was the route for African Slaves coming to the United States?
A.) Middle Passage
A.) Middle Passage
B.) Jim Row
C.) Suffrage
D.) Underground Railroad L F

41. This individual is a colonial example
Of social mobility and Individualism?
A.) Baron de Montesquieu
B.) Fredrick von Stueben
C.) Nathaniel Bacon
D.) Benjamin Franklin
D.) Benjamin Franklin L F

43. This was the route that goods were
exchanged between North America, Europe,
and Africa?
A.) Oregon Trail
B.) Route 66
C.) Transatlantic Trade
C.) Transatlantic Trade
D.) Straight of Magellen L F

45. This is how a country gets a favorable
balance of trade in Mercantilism?
A.) Even Imports/Exports
B.) Greater Imports
C.) Greater Exports
C.) Greater Exports
D.) Free Enterprise L F

47. This was a new way of Christian worship
that weakened church membership and
resulted in colonists questioning British
authority ?
A.) Salem Witch Trials
B.) Catholicism
C.) Great Awakening
C.) Great Awakening
D.) Scientific Revolution L F

49. This caused Great Britain to tax the
Colonist because it put Britain in debt?
A.) Navigation Acts
B.) French & Indian War
B.) French & Indian War
C.) War of 1812
D.) Boston Tea Party L F

51. This law made settling west of the
Appalachian Mountains a violation of law
and was largely ignore by colonist?
A.) Navigation Acts
B.) Stamp Act
C.) Intolerable Acts
D.) Proclamation of 1763
D.) Proclamation of 1763 L F

53. This ended the French & Indian War?
A.) Treaty of Paris 1783
B.) Treaty of Ghent
C.) Treaty of Paris 1763
C.) Treaty of Paris 1763
D.) Treaty of Paris 1898 L F

55. This required colonists to print newspapers,
Legal documents, playing cards on paper
Bearing special tax stamps?
A.) Tea Act
B.) Navigation Acts
C.) Stamp Act
C.) Stamp Act
D.) Townshend Acts L F

57. This closed Boston harbor as punishment
for the tea party, forced colonist to house
British troops without pay, and suspended
local government?
A.) Stamp Act
B.) Townshend Acts
C.)Intolerable Acts
C.) Intolerable Acts
D.) Navigation Acts L F

59. This was groups organized to communicate
secret plans between the colonies to
oppose British rule and was the first
time the colonies united in organization?
A.) Patriots
B.) Burgesses
C.) Standing Committees
D.) Cmts of Correspondence
D.) Cmts. of Correspondence L F

61. These group of people helped during the
boycott with Great Britain by weaving
textiles usually bought from Great Britain?
A.) Committee of Correspondence
B.) Sons of Liberty
C.) Daughters of Liberty
C.) Daughters of Liberty
D.) War Hawks L F

63. This secret association opposed British
authority by destroying property such as
government offices, homes of supporters of
Great Britain, and Merchant ships and goods?
A.) Sons of Liberty
A.) Sons of Liberty
B.) Tories
C.) Whigs
D.) Yanks L F

64. Bonus Questions

66. This document convinced colonist
that the time had come for Independence?
A.) Federalist Papers
B.) Declaration of Independence
C.) Common Sense
C.) Common Sense
D.) U.S. Constitution L F

68. This person wrote Common Sense?
A.) George Washington
B.) Thomas Jefferson
C.) Benjamin Franklin
D.) Thomas Paine
D.) Thomas Paine L F

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