Exploration and Colonization Quiz

Which motivation for exploration should be added to the list above?

• Larger and safer homes

• Employment opportunity

• Lower taxes

• Fame and international recognition

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

Which of the following best describes the primary reason most of the early settlers came to the colonies of Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island?

• Obtain better jobs

• Seek religious freedom

• Purchase inexpensive farmland

• Profit from the fur trade

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why were many colonists unhappy with the Proclamation of 1763?

• It took too much land from Canada.

• It gave territory in Florida to France.

• It limited the colonists’ freedom to move west.

• It encouraged raids by Native Americans.

Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish colonists after the Boston Tea Party. They closed Boston Harbor by using British warships to form a blockade around the harbor so that no ships could pass through to dock.

Explain what the word blockade means.

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which words in the sentences help the reader understand the meaning of the word blockade?

• using British warships

• punish colonists

• around the harbor

• could not pass through

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• Great Britain taxed the colonists to pay for the war debt
• The colonists boycotted British Goods
• The colonists destroyed shipments of tea
• The colonists declared independence from Great Britain

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

These laws helped cause the American Revolution by -

• fining colonists for breaking the law

• angering colonists by violating their rights

• limiting colonial trade with the French

• putting colonists in jail for treason

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

Which of the following events caused an increase of support for the rebellion against England?

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Boston Massacre

• The Proclamation of 1763

Which of the following was a result of the American Revolution?

• America became an independent country.

• Britain continued to tax the colonies.

• America took control of Britain.

• None of the above.

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

Choose an industry (lumber, whaling, fishing, farming) from colonial times and explain why they were located in certain colonies and not others.