Chapter 4 Practice
  • 1. Which of the following was an artisan?
A) merchant
B) farmer
C) blacksmith
D) indentured servant
  • 2. Which product was traded along the Triangle Trade from England to the colonies?
A) indigo
B) tea
C) rum
D) timber
  • 3. Which product was traded along the Triangle Trade Route from the colonies to Africa?
A) gold
B) rum
C) timber
D) slaves
  • 4. Which term BEST describes the English laws that limited colonial trade?
A) exporting
B) mercantilism
C) bartering
D) protectionism
  • 5. Why did colonists sometimes dam, or block, rivers?
A) to make harbors for ships
B) to make canals for transportation
C) to get power from flowing water
D) to make space to build houses
  • 6. Why were there more slaves in the Southern colonies than in the Northern colonies?
A) Northern colonists opposed slavery.
B) The weather was warmer in the South.
C) Southern farms needed many workers
D) The harbors in the South were better and busier.
  • 7. What is one way that life for enslaved people was different in the South than in the North?
A) In the South, enslaved people could learn a trade.
B) In the South, enslaved people could buy their freedom.
C) In the South, most enslaved people lived in cities.
D) In the South, enslaved people lived in communities.
  • 8. Which of the following is an example of enslaved people resisting slavery?
A) teaching slaveholders how to grow rice
B) breaking tools
C) voting
D) working inside the main house of a plantation
  • 9. King Philips war was an example of
A) British troops trying to conquer the Native Americans.
B) French traders helping Native Americans.
C) colonists putting down a rebellion by African slaves.
D) Native Americans resisting New England colonists.
  • 10. Why did some Native Americans side with the British in the French and Indian War?
A) They thought the British had a stronger army.
B) They wanted to be part of the British colonies.
C) They felt the French had treated them badly as trade partners.
D) They hoped doing so would help them keep control of their land.
  • 11. Why were the Ottawa people upset with the outcome of the French and Indian War?
A) They did not want British settlers building towns on their land.
B) They had hoped to force all Europeans out of North America.
C) The did not want the French traders to continue living on their land.
D) They had hoped to claim more territory for themselves.
  • 12. What is a system in which people are bought and sold as if they were property?
A) artisan
B) treaty
C) ally
D) slavery
  • 13. What is a skilled worker or craftsperson?
A) ally
B) artisan
C) slave
D) proprietor
  • 14. What is a military partner?
A) slave
B) proprietor
C) artisan
D) ally
  • 15. What is a formal agreement between countries?
A) treaty
B) artisan
C) slave
D) proprietor
  • 16. What is someone called who owns land or property?
A) proprietor
B) ally
C) artisan
D) treaty
  • 17. Which product was traded by Southern colonists who lived near the coast?
A) tobacco
B) wheat
C) iron
D) timber
  • 18. Which religious group settled in the New England colonies?
A) Quakers
B) Catholics
C) Anglicans
D) Puritans
  • 19. Which colony was founded by Quakers?
A) Pennsylvania
B) Delaware
C) New York
D) New Jersey
  • 20. Which colony was known for its good relations with Native Americans?
A) Maryland
B) Georgia
C) Carolina
D) Virginia
  • 21. In the triangular trade, what were two products the colonists shipped to England? What were two products that England shipped to the colonies?
  • 22. What was the Middle Passage? Explain two factors that made it a terrible experience.
  • 23. What were the three classes in colonial society and give an example of an occupation from each.
  • 24. Why did different Native Americans take sides in the war between France and Britain?
  • 25. What physical boundary formed the western boundary of the colonies? How was the Proclamation of 1763 supposed to affect colonial settlers? How did it really affect them?
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