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Social studies Q2
Social Studies Q2
Question | Answer |
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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 |