U2 Ch4 - The English Colony
Quiz by Stacy
Grade 4
Social Studies (2017)
New York State Learning Standards
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- Q1Self-government was important to the colonists because it meant they could...make their own laws and decisionskeep the English from taking over New Netherlanddisagree with the decisions made by Peter Stuyvesantforce everyone to go to church on Sundays300s
- Q2A person chosen by a group and given power to make decisions for its members is adukerepresentativejurytyrant300s
- Q3John Peter Zinger was...the first governor of New Yorka Huguenot who founded New Rochelle and New Paltza member of the first New York Assemblythe newspaper printer and editor who published articles against Governor Cosby300s
- Q4During the 1700s, the French and the British built forts to...protect the land they had claimedencourage more settlers to come to New Yorkprotect one anotherserve as trading posts300s
- Q5Who led the group of soldiers to force the French out of the Ohio River valley?Benjamin FranklinGeorge WashingtonWilliam ClarkeJames Delancey300s
- Q6What was true about New Amsterdam's government?landowners voted to elect leadersthe people liked the way Stuyvesant ran the city and gave him total controlthey wanted self-governmenttown leaders were appointed by the Dutch king300s
- Q7After the English took control of the colony of New Netherland, they renamed it...Fort OrangeNew AmsterdamNew YorkAlbany300s
- Q8Hueguenots came to New York for...to get away from warto find jobsreligious freedomto settle rich lands300s
- Q9The trial of John Peter Zenger introduced the idea of...freedom of the presswriting as many newspaper articles against leaders as possiblereligious freedom in New Yorktrial by jury300s
- Q10Many of the goods and services produced in colonial New York werenot available to the people of New Yorkused by the people in New York and the other English coloniesnot important to New York's economyshipped in from England300s
- Q11What is manufacturing?the selling of productsthe making of productsthe transporting of productsthe trading of products300s
- Q12Most people living in colonial New York during the 1700s made their livingas teachersas merchantsby working in new industriesas farmers300s
- Q13Troubles between the French and the British over lands in North America led to theProclamation of 1763French and Indian Warincrease in tradeAlbany Congress300s
- Q14What did the Albany Plan of Union call for?the end of the French and Indian Warthe colonists and the Iroquois to become alliesthe uniting of the colonies under one governmentmerchants to provide supplies to the British government300s
- Q15The Proclamation of 1763 stated thatcolonial governments had to help pay the debts caused by the French and Indian Warall the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains belonged to farmers willing to settle thereNew Orleans belonged to the Frenchall lands west of the Appalachian Mountains belonged to the Native Americans300s