STAAR Review Test 1

The activities of French and Spanish exploration of North America were similar in which fashion?

• Fur Trading

• Ranching and Farming

• Gold Mining

• Sending Missionaries

What was the primary reason for the English colonization of Jamestown in 1607 near the James River?

• Wealth creation

• Creating a new social structure

• Religious freedom

• Political alliances with other countries

The establishment of the House of Burgesses in 1619 and creation of the Mayflower Compact in 1620 indicated the colonists understood the importance of:

• Establishing a self-government

• Submission to English authority

• Protection of natural resources

• Creating revenue through taxation

Use the excerpt below from The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639 to answer the following

“...to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth.”

- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639

The establishment of this order was a result of which of the following?

• The colony needed a strong defense to protect British control.

• The people desired self-government due to the large distance from England.

• The governor sought a chain-of-command to carry out orders from the king of England.

• The colony wanted to share and equally distribute wealth.

Although established long before the American colonies, the Magna Carta in 1215 influenced what feature of colonial life?

• Equal taxation

• Equal taxation

• Individual rights

• Centralized power

British colonists largely objected to which of the following prohibitions of westward expansion following the French and Indian War?

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris in 1783

• Sugar Act of 1764

The diagram below depicts what economic relationship between the American colonies and Britain in 1760?

• Tax-free trade

• Mercantilism

• Balance of trade power

• Federalism

The US Constitution establishes the following provision:

“All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

- Article 1, US Constitution

This provision is directly related to which of the following grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence?

• “judges dependent on the [king’s] will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries”

• “quartering large bodies of armed troops among us”

• “imposing taxes on us without our consent”

• “refused for a long time…to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers…have returned to the people at large for their exercise”

Which of the following unalienable human rights were NOT defined in the Declaration of Independence?

• Right to liberty

• Right to be free of taxation

• Right to life

• Right to pursue happiness

The following quote is an account of what Revolutionary battle?

“I immediately ordered our Militia to disperse, and not to fire. Immediately [British] Troops made their appearance and rushed furiously, fired upon, and killed eight of our Party without receiving any Provocation therefore from us.”

-Captain John Parker, Massachusetts Militia, 1775

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Lexington

• Winter at Valley Forge

• Battle of Bunker Hill