8th Grade Social Studies Semester One Review
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8th - 11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did European nations want to establish colonies in North America?
To find new routes to Africa
To bring back new attributes from other cultures
God, Gold, and Glory
To conquer the rest of the world
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How did Spain’s conquest affect the development of the Americas?
A government based on democracy and free enterprise was created.
A system of small family farms was created.
The Spanish leader stressed that natives be treated as equals.
A strict social class system was created with Native Americans being used for slave labor.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the economic motivation behind the French colonization of North America?
to obtain a source for spices
to expand the fur trade
to find a place to house prisoners
to obtain timber to build homes
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did the English settle in North America?
to trade with the Native Americans
to establish trade with Asia
to make money from the land in North America
to export slaves to Africa
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did the Puritans and Separatists leave England and settle in North America?
They wanted to grow cash crops.
They wanted to find gold.
They wanted to conquer the Aztec.
They wanted religious freedom.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Middle and Southern Colonies were created for mostly what purpose?
to fight with the natives
for religious freedom
to create a buffer between Spanish Florida
for the founders to make money selling land.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was a major cause of the French and Indian War?
Disputes between the French and British over the lands of the Ohio River Valley.
Native Americans were angry because the French were taking their land.
Disputes between the French and Indians over the Ohio River Valley.
Native Americans kept attacking French settlements.
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