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Social studies Q2
Social Studies Q2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which religious group established towns in the New England Colonies? | PURITANS |
| Who was the leader of the PURITANS who helped set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony? | JOHN WINTHROP |
| Each Puritan town had a simple building located in a common area where religious services and town meetings were held. | MEETING HOUSE |
| Who believed that the church should be separate from the government? | ROGER WILLIAMS |
| Who was put on trial for causing people to work against the government? | ANNE HUTCHINSON |
| New England colonies relied on _________ for economic success. | FISHING AND WHALING |
| Which religious group opposed war and felt people could pray in their own way? | QUAKERS |
| A movement that called for a rebirth of religious ways of life was called the _______ | GREAT AWAKENING |
| People who agreed to work for a certain time in exchange for passage to North America | INDENTURED SERVANTS |
| Southern colonies exported many products from their ports including_________ | TOBACCO AND RICE |
| Tax put on all paper goods passed by Parliament | STAMP ACT |
| Meeting of colonial leaders in Pennsylvania to decide what colonists should do about the growing British threat | FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS |
| The _________ is often used as a symbol for peace | OLIVE BRANCH |
| The first part (beginning) of the United States Constitution. | PREAMBLE |
| The FIRST person to sign the Declaration of Independence | JOHN HANCOCK |
| Who was surrounded at the Victory of Yorktown? | CHARLES CORNWALLIS |
| Which of the following is a branch within the Untied States Government? | Supreme Court |
| Name of English document that influenced the writing of the Bill of Rights. | MAGNA CARTA |
| A formal agreement among nations, states, groups or individuals | ALLIANCE |
| The French and Indiana War became a fight for control over which region? | OHIO RIVER VALLEY |
| A sudden or complete change in government is called what? | REVOLUTION |
| What proclamation said colonists could not buy land west of the Appalachian Mountains? | PROCLAMATION OF 1763 |
| Statement or slogan continually repeated by the colonists because of taxes. | "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" |
| The busiest and largest PORT in the middle colonies was what? | Philadelphia, PA |
| Europeans wanted gold, silk and spices from which continent? | ASIA |
| When colonists stopped buying goods they were? | BOYCOTTING |
| In the Mayflower Compact, the pilgrims agreed to work __________ | FOR THE COMMON GOOD |
| The minute men were what? | COLONISTS |
| In the South, large farms were called what? | PLANTATIONS |
| One way in which all colonists were alike was that they all? | WERE RULED BY GREAT BRITAIN |