Civics Test #2
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- 10. William Penn designed it as a grid-city to accomodate for future growth, and it is a good thing he did, because within a hundred years, its population had increased ten times, making it the biggest city and most busy port in North America.
- C. Philadelphia.
- 19. The first fighting between redcoats and minutemen occured during the:
- B. Battle of Lexington
- 18. Samuel Adams and other called the confrontation between British soldiers and civilians in March of 1770 "the Boston Massacre" in order to:
- A. Sway public opinion against the British.
- 3. This part of North America was in Spanish hands in the 1600's
- A. Florida
- 20. According to John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, governmental power should be based on:
- B. The consent of the people.
- 16. The Sons of Liberty were a group of:
- D. Any of the above, depending upon whom you asked.
- 17. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act when it became clear that:
- D. The colonies' boycott of British goods was too expensive to Britain.
- 1. Most slaves came from this place.
- C. West Africa
- 2. The Dutch hired Henry Hudson to find this:
- D. Northwest Passage
- 15. What cargo was carried on what is known as the middle passage of the triangular trade?
- D. African slaves
- 4. This part of North America was in Spanish hands in the 1600's:
- A. Florida
- 5. A charter colony, the first successful colony planted by England on mainland North America. Became a tabacco plantation state.
- C. Virginia
- 11. This city originally belonged to the Dutch. It was the third largest city when it came into British hands; and by the Revolution, it was the second largest.
- A. New York
- 7. A proprietary colony given to Calvert, Lord Baltimore. He made a colony for Catholics that also allowed freedom of other to worship as they chose. The colony became something of a mixture between the northern and southern cultures.
- A. Maryland
- 6. A charter colony started in 1620 whose citizens were seeking religious freedom. They called themselves separists. They were helped in their first years by the Wampanoag. Their colony got absorbed by a larger one.
- D. Plymouth
- 8. A proprietary clony given to a few friends of King Charles. They modeled thier colony after Virginia, but grew more rice and indigo than tobacco. After arguing with a settlement in the north of the colony over issues of culture, they split the colony
- B. Carolina
- 9. John Winthrop called it the "City Upon a Hille", this city started as the largest in the colonies, but quickly lost first place and never caught up again. When it began, it was the focus of Puritan dreams of a new society.
- B. Boston
- 14. The triangular trade could best be described as a network of trade routes conecting:
- D. Nations and colonies located on the Atlantic Ocean.
- 12. A cash crop is one that is raised primarily for:
- A. Sale
- 13. All of the following were important cash crops in the Southern colonies except for:
- C. Wheat