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S.S Unit 1 Test
Unit Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When and how did the first Americans reach America? | 12,000 years ago (last Ice Age) (10,000 B.C) by crossing the Bering Strait Land Bridge from Asia to North America. |
| What is the scientific method of determining the age of an artifact? | Carbon Dating |
| What is a society ruled by religious leaders? | Theocracy |
| What is the government that links and unites different groups? | Federation |
| What movement spread the idea that individual reason and logic can improve society versus being told how to reason and think according to the king? | The Enlightenment Era |
| What is the law making legislative branch of England made up of representatives form across England? | Parliament |
| What was someone called that protested the policies of the Catholic Church? | Protestant |
| English Protestants that wanted to purify or reform the practices within the Church of England because bishops and priests had too much power over its members were called what? | Puritans |
| Who were the more extreme English Protestants who wanted to completely separate from the Church of England and form their own church? | Separatists |
| What is the name of the trade routes between England, Africa, and the Americas controlled by the East India Trading Co.? | Triangular Trade Route |
| What is the name of the route along the Triangular Trade Route the brought Africans to the Americas to be sold into slavery? | Middle Passage |
| What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America? | Jamestown |
| What killed two-thirds of Jamestown settlers during the first year? | Starvation and Disease |
| What group of Native Americans had a fragile relationship with Virginia Colonists? | Powhattan |
| What type of crops did the southern colonists grow? | Cash crops (tobacco) |
| What was the main source of labor on the first plantations? | Indentured servants |
| What was Bacon's Rebellion? | A rebellion led by Nathanial Bacon who opposed high taxes and being forced to trade with Native Americans. |
| List the southern colonies | Virginia,North Carolina, South Carolina,Maryland, and Georgia |
| What bill made it a crime to restrict religious rights to Christians? | Toleration Act of 1649 |
| Why was the economy of the south based on agriculture? | Because of its long growing seasons and rich soil. |
| List the New England Colonies | New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island |
| What were three main exports of the New England Colonies? | Ships, whale oil, and fish |
| Why didn't New England colonies grow cash crops? | Because they had rocky soil and poor climate |
| What was the main reason the Puritans and the Pilgrims settled in the colonies? | They were seeking religious freedom |
| What was they first agreement in North America to have fair laws to protect the general good through a democratic vote? | The Mayflower Compact |
| Where did the Salem Witch Trials take place? | Massachusetts |
| Most colonial courts reflected the beliefs of..... | The local communities |
| List the Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware |
| What religious group was referred to as the " Society of Friends"? | The Quakers |
| What Quaker founded the Pennsylvania colony? | William Penn |
| What are staple crops? | Crops in high demand because of their necessity |
| What is a bicameral legislature? | A group of law makers split into two groups |
| who had the authority over the colonies? | The King of England |
| What was the King's main reason for founding and controlling the colonies? | To make money through trade |
| What is the system of gaining and maintaining wealth trough a system of carefully controlled trade? | Mercantilism |
| How can a country gain wealth through trade? | By having more exports than imports |
| What was the purpose of the Navigational Acts? | To control trade in the colonies |
| What religious movement swept through the colonies in the 1730's and the 1740's? | The Great Awakening |
| What was the cause of the French and Indian War? | Land disputes around the Ohio River Valley |
| Who won the French and Indian War? | The British |
| What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763? | To ban British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| What natural boundary formed the western border of the colonies after 1763 | The Appalachian Mountains |
| Why did England begin increasing taxes on the colonists after the French and Indian War? | Those in England voted to tax the colonists to pay the war debt. Colonists didn't have representation. |
| What act placed duties on sugar and molasses? | The Sugar Act of 1764 |
| What act placed a high tax on all paper goods? | The Stamp Act |
| Who were the Sons of Liberty? | A group of colonists leading protests against Britain |
| What act placed taxes on tea, glass, lead, paint, and other imports and allowed tax collectors to search ships for smuggled goods? | The Townshend Acts |
| What Revolutionary War leader helped organize the Boston Tea Party? | Samuel Adams |
| When British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry colonists killing five men, the incident became known as what? | The Boston Massacre |
| What laws passed by Parliament were designed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party? | Coercive Acts (The Intolerable Acts) |
| What did the Intolerable Acts eventually lead to? | Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independance |
| What was the main reason colonists were angry about the taxes Britain kept imposing upon them? | Taxation without Representation |
| Who wrote "Common Sense"? | Thomas Paine |
| In what battles did the British seize stock-piled weapons from the colonists? | The Battles of Lexington and Concord |
| Those loyal to the King of England were called what? | Loyalists |
| What did the colonists send to the King of England to try to prevent war? | The Olive Branch Petition |
| What were the British advantages during the American Revolution? | Stronger Navy, well-trained army, and wealth |
| What colonists was chosen to be commander of the Continental Army? | George Washington |
| What captured colonists is famous for saying, " I only regret that i have but one life to lose for my country." before he was hung? | Nathan Hale |
| What was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point in the war? | The colonial victory led to France to Spain declaring war on Britain |
| What Frenchman had British General Cornwallis pinned down a Yorktown? | Lafayette |
| What Treaty ended the American Revolution? | Treaty of Paris, 1783 |
| On what day do we celebrate the winning of our independence? | July 4th |
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