Question 1

The Middle Passage involved what type of cargo?

Accepted Answer

enslaved Africans

Answer

rum

Answer

sugar

Answer

molasses

Question 2

What natural resource was important to New England’s shipbuilding industry?

Accepted Answer

lumber

Answer

oil

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iron

Answer

coal

Question 3

One of the important preachers of the Great Awakening was __________.

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Edwards

Answer

William Bradford

Answer

Roger Williams

Answer

Dwight Moody

Question 4

North Carolina was a __________ colony.

Accepted Answer

royal

Answer

proprietary

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corporate

Answer

charter

Question 5

The British and French clashed over territory in the __________ River valley.

Accepted Answer

Ohio

Answer

Hudson

Answer

Mississippi

Answer

Potomac

Question 6

One of the first cases concerning the free press in America involved __________.

Accepted Answer

John Peter Zenger

Answer

Ben Franklin

Answer

George Whitefield

Answer

Cotton Mather

Question 7

Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie sent __________ to establish a fort in the Ohio territory.

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Answer

George Braddock

Answer

Alexander Hamilton

Answer

Francis Drake

Question 8

The most powerful group of Native Americans in the East was the __________ Confederacy.

Accepted Answer

Iroquois

Answer

Cherokee

Answer

Powhatan

Answer

Seminole

Question 9

The British prime minister who directed Britain’s successful war effort was __________.

Accepted Answer

William Pitt

Answer

James Wolfe

Answer

Ben Disraeli

Answer

Jim Chatters

Question 10

The Proclamation of 1763 halted settlers' Westward expansion at ...

Accepted Answer

Appalachian Mountains

Answer

Sweet Arrow Lake

Answer

Rocky Mountains

Answer

St. Lawrence River

Question 11

Groups of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

Accepted Answer

militia

Answer

exports

Answer

overseers

Answer

backcountry

Question 12

Goods that are sold abroad.

Accepted Answer

exports

Answer

militia

Answer

imports

Answer

charter

Question 13

Trading illegally with other nations

Accepted Answer

smuggling

Answer

militia

Answer

overseers

Answer

exports

Question 14

Producing just enough crops to meet the needs of one's family

Accepted Answer

subsistence farming

Answer

Tidewater

Answer

commercial farming

Answer

smuggling

Question 15

Crop that is easily sold

Accepted Answer

cash crop

Answer

none of these

Answer

exports

Answer

smuggling

Question 16

Region of hills and forests climbing up towards the Appalachian Mountains

Accepted Answer

backcountry

Answer

Tidewater

Answer

charter colonies

Answer

proprietary colonies

Question 17

Bosses hired by plantation owners to keep the slaves working hard

Accepted Answer

overseers

Answer

exports

Answer

smugglers

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importers

Question 18

Region of flat, low-lying plains along the Southern seacoast

Accepted Answer

Tidewater

Answer

exports

Answer

smuggling

Answer

backcountry

Question 19

Colonies run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted

Accepted Answer

proprietary colonies

Answer

royal colonies

Answer

none of these

Answer

charter colonies

Question 20

Colonies set up by settlers who had been given a formal document

Accepted Answer

none of these

Answer

local colonies

Answer

royal colonies

Answer

proprietary colonies

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