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3rd 9 Weeks Test

Part I: Multiple choice. The first 7 questions are from chapters 2 and 3. The next are from chapter 4.
1. ____ Mercantilism was widely supported at the time. The colonies existed to
A. Become independent countries
B. Make the home country wealthy and powerful
C. Fail and be owned by another country
D. Make the home country weak and poor
2. ____ The 13 Colonies were ruled by what country?
A. Great Britain
B. The United States
C. Spain
D. France
3. ____ What marked the start of a representative government and first legislature in English America?
A. House of Burgesses
B. Mayflower Compact
C. Act of Toleration
D. General Court
4. ____ What were the Southern colonies cash crops?
A. Wheat, corn, and rice
B. Rice, tobacco, and sugar
C. Wheat, sugar, and corn
D. Tobacco, squash, and sugar
5. ____ The Magna Carta was the first document to
A. Place limits on the power of wealthy landowners
B. Establish a monarchy
C. Place limits on an English ruler’s power
D. Give greater power to an English ruler
6. ____ Which of the following was NOT a Southern colony?
A. Georgia
B. Virginia
C. North Carolina
D. New York
7. ____ Which was the following was NOT a New England colony?
A. Maryland
B. Massachusetts
C. Connecticut
D. Rhode Island
8. ____ Which of the following is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?
A. They did not want slaves leaving plantations without permission
B. They did not want enslaved people to read and write
C. They feared slave revolts
D. They feared antislavery law
9. ____ What was the Great Awakening?
A. A belief that all problems could be solved by human reason
B. A Christian revival that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
C. A decade of creativity in colonial art and literature
D. A widespread belief that American colonies should be independent
10. ____ The Zenger case helped establish the right of
A. Freedom of the Press
B. Habeas Corpus
C. Trial by Jury
 D. Freedom of Religion
Use the quote to answer questions 6 and 7.
“The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each
had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us…The shrieks of the woman, and the groans of the dying,
rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

11. ____ What does the quote describe?
A. Conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards Africa
B. Conditions aboard a slave ship crossing the Pacific
C. Conditions aboard a slave ship headed towards the Americas
D. Conditions aboard a slave ship crossing the Mediterranean
12. ____ Enslaved people such as those described in the quote experienced a brutal voyage known as the
A. Gullah
B. Middle Passage
C. Atlantic Crossing
D. Columbian Exchange
E.
13. ____ Which of the following was a factor in the growth of Southern slavery?
A. The Navigation Acts
B. An increase in colonial shipbuilding
C. The plantation system
D. The growth of apprenticeship
14. ____ What was Montesquieu’s contribution to ideas about government?
A. The idea of divine right
B. The idea of natural rights
C. The idea of representative democracy
D. The idea of separation of powers
15. ____ How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts
A. By not selling any products
B. By selling to English merchants
C. By smuggling
D. By growing their own tobacco
16. ____ In Colonial times, how did a young man often learn a trade?
A. By becoming enslaved
B. By becoming an apprentice
C. By becoming an indentured servant
D. By buying his own business
17. ____ In 1689, King William and Queen Mary
A. Dissolved Parliament
B. Executed King Charles I
C. Signed the English Bill of Rights
D. Established a two-house legislature
18. ____ Who among the following had the right to vote in English colonies?
A. White men and women who owned property
B. White men only
C. White men and freed Africans
D. White men and some Native Americans
19. ____ Free African Americans in the colonies were allowed to
A. Vote
B. Sit on juries
C. Be slaveholders and own property
D. Become part of the gentry
20. ____ Who published the Pennsylvania Gazette and was a famous inventor?
A. Ben Franklin
B. Anne Bradstreet
C. Jonathan Edwards
D. John Locke
21. ____ Which of the following was legal under slave codes?
A. Teaching enslaved people to read and write
B. Enslaved people meeting in large numbers
C. The killing of an enslaved person by his or her master
D. An enslaved person owning a weapon
22. ____ Why did England pass the Navigation Acts?
A. To support mercantilism
B. To support the colonies
C. To support ships
D. To support other countries
23. ____ What was the upper class of colonial society called that included wealthy planters and lawyers?
A. Middle Class
B. Lower Class
C. Gentry
D. Monarch
24. ____ What kind of responsibilities did women have in Colonial America?
A. Working in the fields
B. Domestic responsibilities
C. Voting and holding office
D. Farming responsibilities
25. ____ Which of the following was NOT part of the Triangular Trade, a regular routine that slave traders
developed?
A. New England colonies
B. Asia
C. Islands of the Caribbean
D. West Africa
26. ____ What was the first college in Colonial America?
A. William and Mary
B. University of Mississippi
C. Mississippi State University
D. Harvard College
27. ____ Which of the following was NOT one of the three natural rights Locke argued that every person has?
A. Life
B. Liberty
C. Money
D. Property
28. ____ What was the idea that later shaped the founding of United States?
A. Government exists to protect the rights of the people
B. Government exists to ruin the rights of the people
C. Government exists to dictate society
D. Government exists to be its own ruler
29. ____ Which of the following was NOT one of the ways Montesquieu suggested the government should be
divided?
A. A legislative branch to make laws
B. An executive branch enforce those laws
C. A judicial branch to make judgments based on the law
D. A monarch branch to dictate the laws
 30. ____ John Locke and the Baron de Montesquieu were two important thinkers in a movement called the
A. The Great Awakening
B. Exploration
C. Enlightenment
D. American Revolution
31. ____ Colonial grammar schools were similar like today’s:
A. Elementary schools
B. High Schools
C. Colleges
D. Preschools
Part II: Choose the key term that makes the sentence correct or true.
32. The English Bill of Rights upheld the concept of (libel/habeas corpus), that a person cannot be held in prison
without being charged with a specific crime.
33. Parliament was made up of a two house (bill of rights/legislature), a group of people who have the power to
make laws.
34. An (apprentice/extended family) is someone who learns a trade by working for someone in that trade for a
certain period of time.
35. A (public school/dame school) is a school supported by taxes.
36. The belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God is known as a (divine right/natural right)

Part III: Fill in the blank with the correct key term using the word bank provided.

37. Montesquieu believed that there should be ________________________________________________________,

or division of the power of the government into separate branches.
38. The fundamental principle of ___________________________________________________________ is where
journalists have the right to publish the truth without restriction or penalty.
39. An ______________________________________________ signed a contract to work from 4 to 10 years in the
colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas.
40. Many colonists lived with _________________________________________________, family that includes
other members of the family such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
41. Fearing slave revolts, colonists created ______________________________________________, strict laws that
restricted the rights and activities of slaves.

Word Bank

A. Freedom of the Press B. Slaves Codes C. Extended Family D. Separation of Powers

E.Indentured Servant

Part IV: Choose the correct key term. Write the letter choice on the line provided.
42. ______What is the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another?
A. Racism
B. Slave Codes
C. Superiority
D. Race war
 43. ______ What are schools that woman opened in their homes to teach girls and boys to read and write?
A. Public Schools
B. Dame Schools
C. Woman schools
D. Reading schools
44. ______ Locke argued that people have rights that belong to every human being from birth, what are these
called?
A. Divine Rights
B. Human Rights
C. Natural Rights
D. Every Rights
45. ______ What was the class made up of small planters, independent farmers, and artisans?
A. Upper Class
B. Lower Class
C. Middle Class
D. Gentry Class
46. ______ Zenger got charged with libel, what does libel mean?
A. Right of journalists to publish the truth
B. Principle that a person cannot be held in prison
C. Group of people who make laws
D. Publishing of statements that damage a person’s reputation
47. ______ What is a bill of rights?
A. First document to limit the monarch’s power
B. Written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect
C. Rights that have to do with dollar bills
D. Strict laws that restrict enslaved people
Part V: Match the following key people with their correct definition. Write the letter choice on the line provided next to
the key person’s name.
48. _______ Anne Bradstreet A. First colonial poet that expressed the joys and
hardships of her life in Puritan New England
49. _______ Phillis Wheatley B. Massachusetts preacher who was a leader in the
Great Awakening
50. _______ Jonathan Edwards C. Enslaved African poet in Boston