Social Studies Unit 2 Retest - 2023

How did the First Great Awakening impact the Colonies?

• A renewed interest in religion united the colonies
• Everyone disagreed about religion causing riots
• People started believing religion was a lie.
• The colonies used God to justify submission to the king.

What policy is being shown in the diagram below?

• Mercantilism
• Capitalism
• Salutary neglect
• Indentured

Why were many colonists upset with the British in the late 1700s?

• taxation without representation
• Tea was too expensive
• The French has taken their land
• The King was too weak

A person who supported the King

• Loyalist
• Patriot

Who started the Sons of Liberty?

• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• Sam Adams

Which statement best explains the impact of the Intolerable Acts?

• They prevented the colonies from extending their land claims into the Ohio Valley.
• They punished Boston by closing its harbor, disbanding its assembly, and instituting martial law.
• They marked a change in British colonial policy so that Parliament exercised stricter control over trade and manufacturing.
• They allowed French Catholics to keep their autocratic government in Canada while limiting religious freedom in the colonies.

Who was the PRIMARY author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Ben Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• Alexander Hamiltion
• John Adams

What did Thomas Jefferson add to the Declaration of Independence to justify independence?

• The Preamble and other articles
• List of all the taxes the King placed upon the Colonists
• List of grievances (problems) against the King
• Names of everyone killed in the Boston Massacre

At which battles did George Washington outwit the British and Hessians to take victories?

• Trenton and Princeton
• Saratoga and Bunker Hill
• Valley Forge and King’s Mountain
• Fort Ticonderoga and Lexington and Concord

This battle was a turning point of the war because the French became allies with the Continental Army?

• Saratoga
• Yorktown
• Valley Forge
• Trenton