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Grade 8 Colonial Period
The Townshend Acts
  1. This act stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies in all cases whatsoever
  2. This act placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
  3. This act set duties on molasses and sugar imported by colonists.
  4. This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What was the first representative assembly in the American colonies
  1. House of Burgesses
  2. New England Way
  3. Joint-Stock Company
  4. Roanoke
Grade 8 Colonial Period
General search warrants used by the British in an effort to prevent smuggling in the American colonies.
  1. The Sons of Liberty
  2. The Tea Act
  3. Writs of Assistance
  4. The Boston Massacre
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What European explorer is credited with naming America?
  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Ferdinand Magellan
  3. Amerigo Vespucci
  4. Vasci Nunez de Balboa
Grade 8 Colonial Period
"...they are frequently stowed so close, to allow no other position than lying on their sides. Nor will the height between deck permit the indulgence of an upright posture...Any slaves who had died during the night were unchained and thrown overboard. Their bodies were quickly eaten by the sharks that followed every slave ship."

Based on the excerpt above, which of the following statements is true?
  1. Slaves were able to move about the ship during the middle passage.
  2. The crew of the ship would give slaves lots of food to eat on the journey to the Americas.
  3. The Africans sold into slavery were placed into separate rooms and given pillows for the journey.
  4. Slaves were not given much room on the ship, and were often not able to sit upright.
Grade 8 Colonial Period
After the French and Indian War the
  1. colonists felt more united than ever with Britain.
  2. colonists lived in peace with the Native Americans.
  3. British refused to tax the colonies.
  4. colonists began to see themselves as separate from Britain.
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Who made up the middle class in the colonies?
  1. doctors
  2. gentlemen
  3. farmers
  4. pirates
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What did the Mayflower Compact do?
  1. allowed Native Americans to vote
  2. helped establish the idea of self-government
  3. gave land to indentured servants
  4. allowed Europeans to travel to America
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Where was the the First Anglo-Powhatan War?
  1. Kentucky
  2. Pennsylvania
  3. Virginia
  4. Georgia
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What was the major form of death by settlers at Jamestown?
  1. Smallpox
  2. Indian Wars
  3. Malaria
  4. Ebola
Grade 8 Colonial Period
The Huguenots settled in the English colonies for which primary reason?
  1. Freedom of Religion
  2. Freedom of Petition
  3. Surplus Population
  4. Joint-Stock Company/Rise of the Middle Class
Grade 8 Colonial Period
The Declaratory Act.
  1. This act placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
  2. This act stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies in all cases whatsoever
  3. This act set duties on molasses and sugar imported by colonists.
  4. This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists
Grade 8 Colonial Period
This middle colony was founded for Religious and Political freedom for the Quakers?
  1. Pennsylvania
  2. Georgia
  3. Virginia
  4. Massachusetts
Grade 8 Colonial Period
The event where colonists dresses as Indians and dumped over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
  1. The British kept a standing army in North America ...
  2. The Sons of Liberty
  3. The Boston Tea Party
  4. The Boston Massacre
Grade 8 Colonial Period
                was punishable by death in the colonies.
  1. Adultry
  2. Stealing
  3. Treatchery
  4. Treason
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by Puritans
  1. True
  2. False
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