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8th gr Hist Ch 4 - 5
8th grade History Chapter 4 - 5 Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were members of a religion especially strong among some American intellectuals? | Unitarism |
| What people were often treated as pagans by Protestant colonists? | Jews |
| What group of people was supervised by commissaries sent by the Bishop of London? | Anglicans |
| What group was made up of German settlers who followed the early reformer John Huss? | Moravians |
| Who were the French Protestants who settled in some of the colonies? | Dunkers |
| Who wrote the "Blue-Backed Speller"? | Noah Webster |
| Who started a college in a log cabin? | William Tennent |
| Who was a devoted missionary to the Indians? | David Brainerd |
| Who was a Virginia preacher during the Great Awakening? | Samuel Davies |
| Who was a pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts? | Johnathan Edwards |
| What was the denominational name that described New England Puritans? | Congregationists |
| What movement of the 1700s exalted rational thinking and critical reasoning? | Enlightenment |
| What agreement in 1662 allowed the unsaved children of Puritans to become church members? | Half-way Covenant |
| What "book" did colonial children use to help them learn the alphabet and other simple lessons? | horn book |
| Under what system did young men in the colonies learn a trade? | apprenticeship |
| What were schools that met in the homes of widows or single ladies called? | dame schools |
| What type of servant came from continental Europe with his family, hoping to find a friend or relative to pay their passage? | redemptioners |
| What type of people, including the Faneuils and Hancocks, made up the colonial upper class? | aristocrats |
| What act provided for local education in Massachusetts? | Old Deluder Satan Act |
| What was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies? | Harvard |
| What English preacher spoke to large outdoor crowds during the Great Awakening? | George Whitefield |
| People in colonial America usually learned Greek, Latin, and natural philosophy in what? | Grammar schools |
| What were the results of the Great Awakening? | colleges established, missionary works, personal freedom |
| What philosophy asserted that God created the universe and then stepped aside to let the laws of nature function without His intervention? | deism |
| Who provided education in the southern colonies? | Private tutors |
| Did the middle class own servants? | Most did not |
| What was the average colonial family like? | Parents responsible for education , home was center of economic activity, home acted as church and hospital |
| What was the role of colonial women? | took over husband's job if absent |
| What were some characteristics of the slave family? | could not car for their children during the day and help slaves indure hardship |
| Why was the Great Awakening needed in the colonies? | not interested in spiritual things |
| Who was the British general who led the action against Quebec? | James Wolfe |
| Who urged protest against British actions in Massachusetts? | Samuel Adams |
| Who led Virginian forces and acted as an aide to the British in the French and Indian War? | George Washington |
| Who made a famous ride through the countryside of Massachusetts? | Paul Revere |
| Who was the British general who was defeated near Fort Duquesne? | Edward Braddock |
| What regulated colonial trade with other colonies and with foreign nations? | Navigation and trade acts |
| What forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachians? | Proclamation of 1763 |
| What was a series of acts, such as closing the port of Boston, designed to punish unruly Massachusetts? | Intolerable Acts |
| Who alerted colonies of British threats and promoted opposition? | Committee of Correspondence |
| What taxed the work of colonial businessmen, particularly lawyers and printers? | Stamp Act |
| The defeat of what city spelled the fall of New France? | Quebec |
| Who was the king of Britain while colonial discontent was growing? | King George III |
| A dispute over the settlement of what valley was the cause of the French and Indian War? | The Ohio Valley |
| Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death"? | Patrick Henry |
| What became the rallying cry of colonists opposed to the new taxes Parliament implemented? | "No taxation without representation" |
| What Indian confederation supported the British? | Iroquois |
| What incident left five patriot "martyrs" dead on the streets of Boston? | The Boston Massacre |
| What was the strongest nation in the world following the French and Indian War? | Britain |
| Whose document, drafted by Benjamin Franklin, was the first attempt to united the American colonies? | The Albany Plan of Union |
| Who were the energetic militiamen chosen to be ready to fight the British at short notice? | minutemen |
| In reaction to the Stamp Act, what did the colonists do? | formed the Sons of Liberty, used violence against British agents, met in a Congress to insist upon their rights |
| Edward Braddock's most lasting contribution to the French and Indian War was what? | Building a road to the frontier |
| What were France's advantages for furthering its settlement of North America? | Built forts at strategic points, support of Indian tribes, strong central control |
| What closely marks the beginning of the War for Independence? | The skirmishes at Lexington and Concord |
| What were the British's actions following the French and Indian War the irritated the colonists? | Issuing the Proclamation of 1763, quartering of British troops and colonies at colonial expense, Writs of Assistance |
| Troops led by what man failed to keep the French from occupying Fort Duquesne and were forced to surrender at Fort Necessity? | George Washington |
| What did the Quebec Act do? | allowed French law to be used, Roman Catholicism threatened westward expansion |
| What Indian chief organized the raids on frontier settlements following the French and Indian War? | Pontiac |
| What did the First Continental Congress do? | declared loyalty to king, organized the Continental Association, adopted declaration of rights and grievances |
| The leadership of which man during the French and Indian War brought the British to victory? | William Pitt |
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