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What is an example of a Native American economy?
a) The Pueblo of the Southwest sought help and advice from spirits they called kachinas.
b) The Powhatan people built their own canoes/tools and used them to catch fish in the surrounding waters.
c) The Mound Builders built huge earthen structures.
d) The Maya developed a system of tracking the sun, moon, and stars.

Which of the following statements in NOT false about the Boston Tea Party?
a) After boarding a ship in the night, the colonists threw many chests of tea into the water.
b) The Boston Tea Party celebrated the arrival in the colonies of a new type of tea from England.
c) The colonists were happy because Great Britain had repealed the tea tax.
d) Patriots convinced Native Americans to destroy a British ship and its cargo of tea.

New waterway made it faster to move goods. New technology allowed boats to travel against the currents of rivers. A new means of transportation made it possible to build new routes almost anywhere. Identify the 3 transportation improvements described
a) the cotton gin, the Erie Canal, and the telegraph
b) the steamboat, railroads, and the Erie Canal
c) the steamboat, the mechanical reaper, and railroads
d) the Erie Canal, the steamboat, and spinning machines

Name the key factor that helped with the survival/progress of the Jamestown colony.
a) King James I finally sent a large English army to Jamestown to subdue the Spanish forces that had been attacking them.
b) In 1610, King James I send hundreds of English families to the colony. The new settlers started large farms.
c) John Rolfe, who worked for The Virginia Company, began to grow a new type of tobacco - helping them earn money.
d) Enslaved Africans taught the settlers how to grow rice. Rice became an important cash crop in Jamestown.

Identify a key feature of the relationship between Native Americans and Spanish settlers.
a) Under encomienda the Native Americans played an important part of the Spanish economy.
b) The Aztecs joined the Spanish to form a powerful army that conquered many other Native American civilizations.
c) Native Americans forced the Spanish settlers out of the Americas.
d) Spanish settlers adopted the Native American way of life.

How did the African American men help the Union during the Civil War?
a) African American men played no role in the Civil War.
b) They worked as nurses on the battlefield and they built most of the ironclad ships the Union used in the war.
c) They joined Native American uprisings to try to take back land from the settlers.
d) They served in the Union's army and also worked as guards, cooks, and carpenters.

What are two major trails used to expand westward?
a) The Oregon and California Trails
b) The Appalachian and Mormon Trails
c) The Trail of Tears and Mormon Trail
d) The Trail of Tears and Oregon Trail

Which of these wasn't important to Native American economies?
a) the bison
b) hunting and fishing
c) praising spirits
d) Agriculter

Which explains the situation right before the Civil War between the South and the North?
a) The urban North depended on industry and slavery was disappearing. Where the south was rural and heavily dependent on slaves.
b) The regions were growing closer together because the south abolished slavery in 1855.
c) They had different economies and views on slaves but few tensions.
d) The Souths heavy use of slaves was extending northward and would soon be vital in the north.

Which of these was a reason why King Ferdinand and the Queen agreed to fund a voyage for Columbus?
a) wanted to trade with native amaricans.
b) They wanted to invade other Asian countries.
c) They wanted to move to an island in the Caribbean Sea
d) They wanted to spread Christianity and profit from trade in Asia.

Who had the right to vote when the constitution was written.
a) property owners that were white males
b) free African American males
c) Married white females
d) African american married females

Why were the battles of Princton and Trenton imortant?
a) 59 British cannons were captured and used to force them out of boston
b) Washington's victories at each of them improved morale and caused more to join the fight with the Patriots.
c) They did not have a big role of the revolution.
d) The victoires convinced theFrench to join them.

What was the beginning purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
a) To decide whether a king would rule.
b) To get delegates to sign the new constitution.
c) To revise the articles of confederation and form a stronger government.
d) To name a ruler of the army.

Which concept limits the powers of each branch of government to make sure that no single branch can become to powerful?
a) the Bill of Rights
b) the separation of powers
c) amendments
d) the Preamble

Of the following, which British action angered many colonists in the 1760s?
a) To pay off its war debt, Great Britain sold land in the eastern colonies to France.
b) In order to pay off their war debt, the British placed new taxes on the colonists.
c) King George III went to live in the colonies. Colonists were forced to pay taxes to build a castle for the king in Virginia.
d) The British banned the export of tobacco from the colonies to England.

Which statement below can ONLY the national government do?
a) print money
b) set up courts
c) collect taxes
d) manage elections

Out of the following tools, which navigation tool helped European sailors know how far they had sailed from the equator?
a) the magnetic compass
b) the telescope
c) the astrolabe
d) maps

Out of the following explorers, which was able to circumnavigate the Earth becoming the first known explorer to do so?
a) Columbus
b) Cortes
c) Ponce de Leon
d) Magellan

Which of the following BEST explains why the colonists were angry about the Stamp Act?
a) The Stamp Act taxed tools the colonists produced in America.
b) The Stamp Act taxed the colonists' land.
c) The Stamp Act was unfair due to the colonists having no representation in Parliament.
d) The Stamp Act should also apply to Native Americans.

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