The American Republic Test

Question 1

What were the three largest groups of immigrants to the colonies

Answer 1

Scots-Irish, Germans, and the English

Question 2

Black slaves often served as household servants in these colonies

Answer 2

Northern Colony

Question 3

The French Huguenots had a particularly strong presence where

Answer 3

South carolina

Question 4

What was the undeveloped area at the edge of the colonial settlements called

Answer 4

frontier

Question 5

What term was used to describe the Africans’ journey to the New World

Answer 5

Middle passage

Question 6

What routes did settlers usually follow inland

Answer 6

rivers

Question 7

Were roads built during the colonial era

Answer 7

yes

Question 8

Most of the early colonists relied upon what things that were found nearby

Answer 8

Locally grown food and Natural resources found nearby

Question 9

What occupation did most of the early colonists have

Answer 9

Subsistence (farmers)

Question 10

What popular vehicle did the colonists use to move their belongings inland

Answer 10

Cohestoga wagons

Question 11

Farmers in the middle colonies raised much of this type of grain

Answer 11

cereal grain

Question 12

What colonies used timber for the shipbuilding industry

Answer 12

New England colonies

Question 13

What colonies were known as the bread colonies

Answer 13

The middle colonies

Question 14

The New England colonies had ________ climate than that of the other two regions

Answer 14

cold

Question 15

The New England colonies had a ____ ____ soil

Answer 15

Thin, rocky

Question 16

The New England colonies often turned to________ for a living

Answer 16

fishing

Question 17

Colonial fisherman caught codfish along the _______ ___________ coast or off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland

Answer 17

New England Coast

Question 18

What colonies had several navigable rivers to aid transportation and settlement

Answer 18

The Middle colonies

Question 19

Which colonies generally had rich soil and a long rowing season

Answer 19

The southern colonies

Question 20

What colonies were in the location of Piedmont and tidewater

Answer 20

The Southern colonies

Question 21

What were the large farms in the Southern colonies called

Answer 21

Plantations

Question 22

Was the South a place where industries grew or where there were more farms and plantations

Answer 22

There were more farms and plantations

Question 23

What was the most important crop to the survival of the New colonies

Answer 23

corn

Question 24

What do Historians call the network between the Americas, Europe, and Africa

Answer 24

The Triangular trade

Question 25

In the British colonies, what group was most actively involved with the missions to the Indians

Answer 25

Puritans

Question 26

Christian Indians lived in ___________towns in order to learn about European laws, manners, and town life

Answer 26

Praying

Question 27

Which Puritan minister translated the Bible into Algonquin

Answer 27

John Eliot

Question 28

By the mid 1600s were the colonists still threatened by Indian attacks

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

What war did colonists capture Indians and sold them as slaves

Answer 29

Pequot

Question 30

What war resulted in the burning of Jamestown

Answer 30

Bacon's Rebillion

Question 31

What war resulted in the loss of the Indian way of life

Answer 31

King Philip's war

Question 32

What war spread through Mass. bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine

Answer 32

King Philip's war

Question 33

What war did settlers attack Indians without government permission

Answer 33

Bacon's Rebellion

Question 34

What were colonial armies called

Answer 34

Militia

Question 35

Who had the Power of the purse in the colonies

Answer 35

Legislature

Question 36

All of the colonies established

Answer 36

Legislatures

Question 37

What things took place at a town meeting

Answer 37

Night watchmen were appointed, New settlers were given citizenship, and ways to help the poor were considered

Question 38

Who appointed justices of the peace to hold court and serve various public needs

Answer 38

Governors

Question 39

What was the main source of income for colonial governments

Answer 39

Property tax

Question 40

Which colonies had local governments in town meeting

Answer 40

New England Colonies

Question 41

What were the two methods of caring for the poor in the colonies

Answer 41

Putting out and round the town

Question 42

Were elections secret or public in the colonies

Answer 42

Public