Unit 2 Test

Part I: Vocabulary
Directions: Match the vocabulary word with the best possible definition.
A) First form of a representative government in
1. Plantation System
the American colonies
2. Bacon’s Rebellion
B) 1676 attack against British authority in
3. Magna Carta
Jamestown over economic policy towards American
4. Parliament
Indians
5. Virginia House of
C) System of Southern agriculture before the Civil
Burgesses
War, depending heavily on slave labor
D) A legislative body
E) 13th century agreement between the English king
and nobles, limiting the power of the monarchy

6. The Fundamental Orders of A) A written document granting land and the

Connecticut
7. Charter
8. Mayflower Compact
9. Proprietary Colony
10. Royal Colony
authority to set up a government
B) A privately owned colony
C) Social contract of the Pilgrims
D) A colony with a charter given by the king
E) First written constitution in America

Part II: Multiple Choice

Directions: Choose the best possible answer from the choices provided.

11. Which colonies would most likely have had cash crops and large plantations?
A) Virginia and South Carolina
B) Maryland and Georgia
C) Rhode Island and Massachusetts
D) New York and Virginia

12. Which of the following is not a cash crop?

A) Tobacco
B) Cotton
C) Corn
D) Indigo

13. Which group of colonies were know as the “breadbasket”?

A) New England
B) Middle
C) Sothern
D) Northern
14. Which term best describes the practice of establishing colonies as a way to
earn money through controlling and maintaining trade?
A) Economic Growth
B) Smuggling
C) Triangular Trade
D) Mercantilism

15. Which group of colonies had the best soil and best climate for growing
crops?
A) Northern
B) New England
C) Middle
D) Southern

16. Which group of people left England because the wanted to purify the English
church?
A) Quakers
B) Puritans
C) Catholics
D) Indentured Servants

17. Which document introduced the idea of limited government?

A) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

B) Magna Carta
C) English Bill of Rights
D) Mayflower Compact

18. Thomas Paine encouraged the American colonies to declare their independence
from Great Britain by writing which of the following?
A) Common Sense
B) Mayflower Compact
C) Declaration of Independence
D) Bill of Rights

19. Which of the following describes a significant feature of the Mayflower

Compact?
A) Established the principle of self government in Plymouth Colony
B) Defined the essential spirit of the Declaration of Independence
C) Was the first attempt by the colonies to resist English law
D) Did not apply to governments outside of Virginia

20. Which of the following documents was the first written constitution in
America?
A) The Magna Carta
B) The Mayflower Compact
C) The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
D) The Declaration of Independence

21. According to John Locke, why do people choose to live under governmental
rule?
A) The government will protect citizens from foreign enemies
B) The government will provide justice for all citizens
C) The government will protect the life, liberty, and property of all
citizens
D) The government will join all states together into one unified union

22. Which of the following was the first representative government in colonial
America?
A) Virginia House of Burgesses
B) New England Town Meetings
C) Congress
D) Parliament

23. The issue or event that most directly led to the American Revolution was:
A) Quartering Act
B) Stamp Act
C) Navigation Act
D) Toleration Act

24. American colonies protested the taxes on colonial goods and British Imports
by:
A) Calling for war with England
B) Invading French Canada
C) Organized boycotts of British goods
D) Passing the Coercive Acts

25. What was the Boston Tea Party?

A) A colonial social custom
B) A major battle of the American Revolution
C) A party given by the Governor of Massachusetts
D) A protest against English trade regulations

26) The French and Indian War created which of the following problems for Great
Britain?
A) A French controlled North America
B) The loss of colonies in North America
C) A large war debt
D) Loss of Indian allies

27. What is known as the official beginning of the American Revolution?

A) The Boston Tea Party
B) The Stamp Act
C) Quartering Act
D) Lexington and Concord

28. A justification for the American Revolution can be found in which of the
following historical documents?
A) Mayflower Compact
B) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
C) The Constitution
D) The Declaration of Independence

29. Though the colonists did not object to paying British taxes, the objected to
taxes based upon which of the following?
A) The colonists had no representation in the British government
B) The British government required all taxes to be paid in gold
C) The colonists had very little coinage in which to pay their taxes
D) The British government required their taxes to be paid with their own
currency

30. Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

A) George Washington
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) John Locke
D) Benjamin Franklin

31. Which statement best describes the underlying principle in the Declaration
of Independence?
A) Government power comes from the consent of the governed
B) Government should be run by a monarch
C) Government should be run by a certain group of people
D) Government power should be controlled by Parliament

Use the map below to answer questions 32 and 33.

32. What does the map above depict?

A) Mercantilist Trade Routes
B) The Triangular Slave Trade
C) The Middle Passage
D) The Trans-Siberian Slave Trade

33. The route from Africa to the Americas is called:

 A) Mercantilist Trade Routes
B) The Triangular Slave Trade
C) The Middle Passage
D) The Trans-Siberian Slave Trade

Use the following image to answer questions 34 and 35.

34. Which statement most accurately expresses the main idea of this
illustration?
A) Colonies that do not unite are not loyal
B) Colonies that do not unite will be attacked
C) Colonies are stronger is they are independent
D) Colonies cannot survive unless they are united

35. The Albany Plan of Union called for

A) A union with Britain
B) Equal rights for all colonists
C) Reproduction of the House of Burgesses throughout the colonies
D) The 13 colonies separation from England and union together

36. The period of heightened religious activities and conversion to Christianity

during the mid-1700’s was known as:
A) The First Great Awakening
B) The Second Great Awakening
C) The American Revolution
D) The Conversion Era

37. What was a reason that many colonists used to argue against declaring
independence from Great Britain?
A) The American colonies were too poor to declare independence
B) The American colonies would never be able to defeat the British Army
C) The American colonies had too many other problems to worry about
D) All of the Above

38. Which of the following was not a cause of the American Revolution?
 A) The French and Indian War
B) The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
C) Mercantilism
D) The Stamp Act

39. The Proclamation of 1763 banned colonial settlement west of _______

A) The Mississippi River
B) The Appalachian Mountains
C) The Pennsylvania colony
D) None of the Above

40. Which of the following was not a result of the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
A) Boston Port was closed until the money lost in the Boston Tea Party was
repaid
B) The colonists increased import duties/taxes
C) Massachusetts was put under control of the King
D) The Quartering Act was reestablished