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Grade 8 Colonial Period
                 founded the colony of Maryland?
  1. Lord Baltimore
  2. John Smith
  3. James Oglethrope
  4. Dutch Colonists
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Why is farming difficult in New England?
  1. The Connecticut River is surrounded by a plain.
  2. Winters are short and dry.
  3. The soil is thin and rocky.
  4. Summers are long and cool.
Grade 8 Colonial Period
The Dutch in New Netherland prospered by
  1. driving Native Americans from their homelands.
  2. trading guns for furs with the powerful Iroquois Confederacy.
  3. allowing Jews seeking religious freedom to settle in New Amsterdam
  4. trading furs for tobacco with the English settlers in Jamestown
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What started the French and Indian War?
  1. French settlers pushed into lands claimed by the British.
  2. French settlers threatened to seize Native American lands.
  3. British settlers pushed west into French and Native American lands.
  4. Native Americans pushed into the British colonies.
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What was the name of the settlement founded in 1607?
  1. Plymouth
  2. Roanoke
  3. Jamestown
  4. Charlestown
Grade 8 Colonial Period
The Intolerable Acts were a direct results of Parliament wishing to punish colonists for which event?
  1. Boston Massacre
  2. Stamp Act
  3. Boston Tea Party
  4. Coercive Acts
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Who was the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
  1. John Winthrop
  2. Cotton Mather
  3. John Calvert
  4. Thomas Hooker
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Why was the Toleration Act of 1649 significant to America's development?
  1. It stopped all conflicts between Catholics and Protestants.
  2. It was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English colonies.
  3. It was the first law to allow religious leaders to mandate one religion.
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Who won the French and Indian War?
  1. France
  2. Spain
  3. Britain
  4. Native Americans
  5. none of the above
Grade 8 Colonial Period
The Federalist Papers, written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, a primarily concerned                                               .
  1. the need to stay clear of foreign entanglement
  2. the practice of slavery in the United States
  3. the interpretation of the Constitution
  4. the need to "mend fences" with England
Grade 8 Colonial Period
America was named after explorer                     
  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Amerigo Vespucci
  3. Ferdinand Magellan
  4. Hernando Cortez
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Which of these was renamed New York in 1664?
  1. the backcountry
  2. the Middle Colonies
  3. New Netherland
  4. Massachusetts Bay
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Massachusetts is a New England Colony
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What crops did the Western Hemisphere bring to the Eastern Hemisphere?
  1. corn
  2. potato
  3. tomato
  4. all of the above
Grade 8 Colonial Period
Mercantilism arose largely because
  1. It strengthened alliances between European powers.
  2. European rulers thought it would make their countries wealthy and powerful.
  3. Colonies wanted to repay their home countries for their support
  4. The King of Spain wanted Spanish colonies to be independent.
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