Pre Test Chapter 1-8
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- 1.Paleo-Indians
- A.
Hunted smaller mammals such as deer and rabbits, since mammoths and other large game were already extinct when they arrived in the Americas.
- B.
Migrated from the Patagonia region of South America up into North America.
- C.
Began arriving in the Americas between 15,000 and 50,000 years ago.
- D.
Often lived in settlements of up to 500 inhabitants.
- 2.The Hohokam villages of southern Arizona used a complex irrigation system to grow their crops.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Christopher Columbus
- A.
Was Portuguese by birth.
- B.
Never set foot on North America
- C.
Was bitter that Ferdinand and Isabella would only allow him one journey to the New World.
- D.
Wanted the natives he encountered to become Spanish citizens.
- 4.Following the Roanoke colony's disappearance after 1587, twenty years passed before the English again attempted to settle in America.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.The Act for Religious Toleration was the first American law that granted freedom of worship for all Christians.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Slaves who could not escape capture in Africa suffered through a horrendous six- to eight-week-long ocean voyage known as the
- A.
Trail of Tears.
- B.
Middle Passage.
- C.
Journey of Death.
- D.
Slave Sail.
- 7.The Glorious Revolution
- A.
Resulted in a Danish prince ascending the English throne.
- B.
Led to the execution of Charles II.
- C.
Led to a period in which Parliament allowed the colonies substantial control over their own affairs.
- D.
Sparked Queen Anne's War.
- 8.The Quartering Acts required the colonial assemblies to provide barracks and supplies for British troops.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.The Sugar Act of 1764
- A.
Was designed to increase tax revenue for the British government.
- B.
Increased the duty on molasses.
- C.
Shortened the list of enumerated products.
- D.
Was passed just after the Stamp Act.
- 10.In which way did Americans misunderstand the Declaratory Act?
- A.
They thought it would result in more independence and colonial self-government.
- B.
The colonists thought it was a face-saving gesture and that the British government was backing down.
- C.
Americans believed that it granted them the right to tax themselves.
- D.
Americans believed it was unconstitutional and should be repealed.
- 11.Approximately this percentage of American colonists remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War
- A.
20 percent
- B.
10 percent
- C.
3 percent
- D.
35 percent
- 12.The Declaration of Independence
- A.
Was built on the political philosophy of Edmund Burke.
- B.
Included the Olive Branch Petition in the hopes of making peace with Britain.
- C.
Proposed establishing a constitutional monarchy for the new nation.
- D.
Stated that all men are created equal.
- 13.Republicanism holds that legitimate political authority comes from
- A.
The aristocracy.
- B.
God
- C.
The people
- D.
The King
- 14.In 1776, suffrage
- A.
Was extended to all free blacks in the North.
- B.
Was limited to white men of the upper classes.
- C.
Was extended to all free, white males.
- D.
Was extended to women in the state of New Jersey.
- 15.The national census of 1790 counted nearly four million Americans, one in four of whom lived in the South.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.The first problem for Washington and Congress was to decide just how the chief executive of the new republic should be addressed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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