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Question 2
3
Points
Another name for the Seven Years’ War is:

The War of French succession

Mr. Madison’s War

The Ohio Valley War

The French and Indian War

Question 3
3
Points
The early colonists lacked a portable currency as a unit of exchange (e.g. coins). As a result, they relied on so-called commodity money. In Virginia, the legislature established _ as the standard unit of exchange.

Whiskey

Corn

Tobacco

Cotton

Question 4
3
Points
Which of the following men helped to found Georgia?

James Oglethorpe

James Davenport

Thomas Paine

George Whitefield

Question 5
3
Points
City dwellers in colonial America lived in a hierarchical society. The so-called “middling sort” included:

the laboring classes (e.g. apprentices and master craftsmen)

merchant elites

shopkeepers and skilled mariners

slaves

Question 6
3
Points
The transfer of a woman’s political and economic rights to her husband following marriage was known as:

entail.

coverture

dowry

betrothal

Question 7
3
Points
Which tribal tradition stated that the earth was made when Sky Woman fell into a watery world and with the help of muskrat and beaver landed safely on a turtle’s back, thus creating Turtle Island, or North America?

Choctaw

Lenape

Salinan

Nahua

Question 8
3
Points
What Native American tribe farmed the bottomlands throughout the Hudson and Delaware River watersheds in modern day New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware?

Mohawk

Iroquois

Lenape

Oneida

Question 9
3
Points
After a vison of the Virgin Mary appeared to a poor Native named Juan Diego, what became the national icon for a new mestizo society?

Crucifix

Saint Amaro

Angela of the Cross

Virgen de Guadalupe

Question 10
3
Points
When was the astrolabe perfected by Portuguese sailors?

15th Century

14th Century

16th Century

13th Century

Question 11
3
Points
What was the name of the Spaniard who wrote about some of the atrocities committed by the Spanish in the Caribbean?

Duarte Barbosa

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Pedro de Valdivia

Question 12
3
Points
Soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were tried in Boston and won acquittal thanks to their attorney,

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams

Paul Revere

Samuel Adams

Question 13
3
Points
What was the impact on Native Americans after the Revolutionary War?

The new Government opened the west for settlement by colonists

It did not impact them in any way

Some tribes, but not all, were forced to move to reservations

They lost all trade rights given to them by the British with the colonies

Question 14
3
Points
The Boston Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams and _ were responsible for the Boston Tea Party.

John Hancock

John Adams

Paul Revere

John Dickenson

Question 15
3
Points
Who wrote the following in his pamphlet in 1764, “The colonists are entitled to as ample rights, liberties and privileges as the subjects of the mother country are, and in some respects to more.”

Ben franklin

Thomas Paine

James Otis

Thomas Jefferson

Question 16
3
Points
Political culture in the colonies developed differently than in Britain because land in the Americas was more easily obtained, allowing:

a higher proportion of males to participate in politics

more wealth in the colonies

fewer lords and earls in the colonies

the House of Commons accepted more representatives from the colonies

Question 17
3
Points
What does a corporate charter do?

allows investors and directors to avoid personal liability for company debts

secures government funding for new businesses

gives tax breaks to new corporations

created monopolies

Question 18
3
Points
Institutional marriages were:

primarily labor arrangements that maximized their chances of surviving and thriving

mainly about companionship

becoming increasingly popular in the nineteenth century

always without any affection and love

Question 19
3
Points
Middle-class owners and managers believed their economic privilege was the result of:

luck

the supremacy of the white race

superior decision making and hard work

their innate respectability

Question 20
3
Points
Which group received the most protection by the middle-class?

Adult laborers

Female laborers

Black laborers

Child laborers

Question 21
3
Points
One major challenge to economic development in the early nineteenth century in the United States was:

high internal transportation costs

uncontrollable rates of immigration

the lack of industrial technology

a small workforce

Question 23
3
Points
What is one of the things that the early French explorers hope to find in North America?

Cibola – City of Gold

Fountain of Youth

Huguenot Safe Haven

A Northwest Passage

Question 24
3
Points
When the Spanish Armada attacked Britain, what helped the British overcome the massive numbers after Spain gathered reinforcements from the Netherlands?

British had a superior navy

The French

Denmark

A fluke storm

Question 25
3
Points
After two and a half centuries of contact with Europeans and African peoples which of these events did not cause the decimation of Florida’s Indigenous populations?

War

Slave raids

Foreign disease

Mass exodus to another territory

Question 26
3
Points
Spain would lose its position to its rivals by the end of what century?

Eighteenth

Seventeenth

Sixteenth

Nineteenth

Question 27
3
Points
What treaty, created in 1494, divided the New World between Spain and Portugal?

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of Tordesillas

Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle

Question 28
3
Points
Who stated that the Federal Government must be “a repository of the rights of the wealthy?”

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams

Question 29
3
Points
“Citizen” Edmond-Charles Genet:

came to America to escape the French Revolution

became the wealthiest planter in the south

was hailed as a hero by Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists for his stance on the Revolution

encouraged Americans to attack Britain’s ally Spain in Louisiana and Florida

Question 30
3
Points
Who wrote, after Shays’ Rebellion, that “Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as the abuse of power.”

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

James Madison

John Jay

Question 31
3
Points
What was the reason for Shays’ Rebellion?

To help the government raise revenue

To stop the foreclosure of lands

To take over the banks in Massachusetts

It was an effort to topple the Massachusetts legislature

Question 32
3
Points
Jefferson’s election in 1800:

had to be settled by the House of Representatives

led to the drafting and eventual passage of the Twelfth Amendment

was a win for the Republican Party as they also won the vice-presidency

All answers are correct

Question 34
3
Points
Which of the following Native American leaders led the Pueblo Revolt in 1680?

Popé

Metacom

Tituba

John Sassamon

Question 35
3
Points
Following the English civil war in 1649:

England became an absolute monarchy

France conquered England and Scotland

Oliver Cromwell became England’s new leader

England’s North American colonies temporarily became protectorates of Spain

Question 36
3
Points
James II created the Dominion of New England in part to:

grant greater political autonomy to the New England colonies

reimpose Catholicism as the official colonial religion

prevent a war between New England and the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland

put the colonies in a better position to counter the expansion and aspirations of French Canada

Question 37
3
Points
Which of the following best describes the status of Britain’s mainland North American colonies within the greater British Empire in the seventeenth century?

Due to their geographic isolation, they stood entirely outside the Atlantic World

Due to their vast wealth, imperial officials paid close attention to them

When compared to the wealth of the Caribbean sugar islands, they were insignificant

Their wealth far surpassed the Caribbean sugar islands

Question 38
3
Points
The Walking Purchase of 1737 was a treaty negotiated in which colony?

Carolina

Virginia

Pennsylvania

New York

Question 39
3
Points
On what ideal did the Republican Party rise to power?

the abolition of slavery

the promise of war with Britain

the promise to expand voting

the deference of ordinary citizens to an aristocracy of merit

Question 40
3
Points
Republican Motherhood means:

Women would pass along important values of independence and virtue to their children

Women were most valuable in their role as mothers to future soldiers

Women should have an equal share of the political rights men enjoyed

Women should stay in the background and remain silent

Question 41
3
Points
Thomas Jefferson defined American union by:

Expansive state power and public submission to the rule of aristocratic elites

Arguing that pure democracy would lead to anarchy

The voluntary bonds of fellow citizens toward one another and toward the government

The President assuming more direct control over the government

Question 42
3
Points
David Walker, in Appeal, called for:

Resistance to slavery and racism

The violent overthrow of the American government

The gradual emancipation of all slaves

The release of John Russwurm from prison

Question 43
3
Points
The Hartford Convention was an attempt to:

repeal the Embargo Act and restore trade with Europe

end the war and curb the power of the Republican Party

create a national bank

nullify gains made by Shawnee negotiators in the Ohio Valley

Question 44
2
Points
The Spanish Crown granted missionaries the right to live among the Native villagers and encouraged settlement through the encomienda system.

True

False
Question 45
2
Points
By the eighteenth century, nearly fifty percent of British colonists in mainland North America lived in a city.

True

False
Question 46
2
Points
Governor Sir William Berkeley of Virginia was an enthusiastic supporter of the printing business. He often complained about the lack of vibrant print culture in his colony.

True

False
Question 47
2
Points
Federalists, such as Alexander Hamilton, sought to improve foreign relations with Great Britain.

True

False
Question 48
2
Points
Parliament allowed one representative from each of the colonies to join the House of Commons, but they did not have a vote or any consideration on bills.

True

False
Question 49
2
Points
The British government’s efforts to pay for the Seven Years’ War drove Parliament to require its American colonies to share the financial burden. One consequence of this was increased American unity.

True

False
Question 50
2
Points
Alexander Hamilton was committed to restricting federal power and preserving an economy based on agriculture.

True

False
Question 51
2
Points
Thomas Jefferson was supportive of Shays’ Rebellion.

True

False
Question 52
2
Points
The King of Spain issued the Decree of Sanctuary in 1693. It freed slaves who escaped the English colonies. Escapees were recognized as free once they converted to Catholicism and declared their allegiance to Spain.

True

False
Question 53
2
Points
By 1750, all British North American colonies abolished slavery except Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

True

False

ANSWERS

2. The French and Indian War
3. Tobacco
4. James Oglethorpe
5. Shopkeepers and skilled mariners
6. Coverture
7. Lenape
8. Lenape
9. Virgen de Guadalupe
10. 15th Century
11. Bartolomé de Las Casas
12. John Adams
13. They lost all trade rights given to them by the British with the colonies
14. John Hancock
15. James Otis
16. A higher proportion of males to participate in politics
17. Allows investors and directors to avoid personal liability for company debts
18. Primarily labor arrangements that maximized their chances of surviving and thriving
19. Superior decision making and hard work
20. Child laborers
21. High internal transportation costs

23. A Northwest Passage
24. A fluke storm
25. Mass exodus to another territory
26. Seventeenth
27. Treaty of Tordesillas
28. Alexander Hamilton
29. Encouraged Americans to attack Britain’s ally Spain in Louisiana and Florida
30. James Madison
31. To stop the foreclosure of lands
32. All answers are correct

34. Popé
35. Oliver Cromwell became England’s new leader
36. Put the colonies in a better position to counter the expansion and aspirations of French Canada
37. When compared to the wealth of the Caribbean sugar islands, they were insignificant
38. Pennsylvania
39. The deference of ordinary citizens to an aristocracy of merit
40. Women would pass along important values of independence and virtue to their children
41. The voluntary bonds of fellow citizens toward one another and toward the government
42. Resistance to slavery and racism
43. End the war and curb the power of the Republican Party
44. True
45. False
46. False
47. True
48. False
49. True
50. False
51. True
52. True
53. False

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