US History Unit 1 Test And Answers

What was the main factor Virginia colonists decided to use slave labor?

What were the important cash crops in the Southern Colonies?

How would you best describe WHAT the Mayflower Compact was and HOW it helped the colonists?

Compared with the South, what disadvantages did New England farmers have?

Which group did not participate in New England's early economy?

How were the middle colonies different from the northern and southern colonies?

Other than slaves who filled the growing needs in the Middle Colonies?

What was the point of the English Bill of Rights?

Why was the English Bill of Rights important?

What was the Great Awakening?

What was the social and political impact of the Great Awakening?

In 1753, who fought the British over settlements in the Ohio River Valley?

How did the French and Indian War change the map of North America? (ownership of land)

In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act in response to Prime Minister George Grenville's request to tax the colonists. Why did the British prime minister make that request?

What sort of remark might an angry colonist make in response to Parliament taxing him unfairly?

Why did the Stamp Act anger colonists?

What event started the Boston Massacre?

Why was the Boston Tea Party important?

Why did the Parliament repeal almost all of the Townshend Act?

What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts?

How was Massachusetts punished for the Boston Tea Party?

What did Patrick Henry mean when he said, "Give me liberty or give me death" at the Second Continental Congress?

What event caused the meeting of the First Continental Congress?

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

April 18th 1775, a group of 700 British soldiers left Boston in search of major colonial weapons storehouse rumored to be located in this town. Name the town.

How did the Second Continental Congress decide to handle the British?

What effect did Thomas Paine's Common Sense have on colonial leaders?

How did Thomas Paine think citizens should make laws?

How did the ideas of the Enlightenment, and Great Awakening influence the colonists view of government?

Why were Thomas Paine's political ideas considered bold at the time?

Why did Thomas Jefferson feel the colonists had the right to break away from Great Britain?

According to the Declaration of Independence, what were natural laws and who gives them?

What was the phrase "taxation without representation" so important to the revolutionary cause?

Does the Declaration of Independence discuss slavery? I no, how could that be seen as hypocritical?

What are the results of the 1783 Treaty of Paris?

When was the Declaration of Independence accepted by the Second Continental Congress?

According to the Declaration of Independence, what is the purpose of government?

According to the Declaration of Independence, what should happen when the government becomes destructive?

According to the Declaration of Independence, unalienable rights are?

According to the Declaration of Independence, what is self-evident?

When the United States declared its independence, how many states were in the country?

Which group felt the colonists did not need independence?

Which group was most divided in its support of the Patriots' war effort?

Why did thousands of African-American slaves sign on with the British Army?

Battle of Trenton was different from the previous battles because the Patriots...

Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point for the Patriots?

Why was the Marquis de Lafayette interested in the American Revolution?

How was France's interest in the revolution important?

Why was the winter at Valley Forge such a difficult time for the Continental Army?

What led to the American victory over the British at Yorktown?