Unit 1 Test for Social Studies Mr.Johnson

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Test your knowledge of early American history and the foundations of society in the New World. This quiz covers significant events, individuals, and concepts that shaped the development of the United States.

Key topics include:

The Mayflower Compact
Understanding slave codes
The significance of the House of Burgesses
Influential figures like William Penn and Roger Williams

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What was the Mayflower compact

It was a island full of colonists

It was a ship full of Pilgrims

The Mayflower Compact had the first agreement for self-government to be created

It was the ship of the Plynouths

What does the term "slave code" mean?

Slave codes were laws that prevented more freedom of enslaved africans

It was a another term to use morse code to talk to slaves

Slave codes placed harsh restrictions on slaves' already limited freedoms, often in order to preempt rebellion or escape, and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.

They were laws that allowed freedom to the slaves

What is a representative government?

Those elected meet to debate and make laws on behalf of the whole community or society, instead of the people voting directly on laws and other debates.

It was a form of democracy which failed to succeed

It was made by the Pilgrims

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What was the house of burgessess

It held the America's first assembly in the church of plymouth

It was a house that colonists sheltered in

It was the America's first assembly held at the church of jamestown

It was a farm house

What were slaves (easy)

Slaves were people to chose to work for white landowners

Slaves were ONLY white people that were held to work for landowners

Slaves were people that were captured to be held in order to work for landowners

They were people that had nothing left, so THEY decided to work as a farmer

Who was Roger Williams?

He was a slave (at 10 years old) that was captured, brought to work, and later found his freedom in the Americas.

Roger Williams was a christian who wanted to reform a church.

Roger Williams was a Puritan who reformed a baptist by spreading his "dangerous" ideas.

He was a slave trader in the triangular trade.

What is racism

Racism is the act of being kind to another race

Racism is the thought that one race is better than another

Racism is the though that your race/culture is better than EVERYTHING else on earth

Racism is the act of giving all your money to get slaves

Who were the Pilgrims?

The Pilgrims were people that got a lot of gold by settling in Jamestown

There were ONLY men on their ship, who died on their journey

The Pilgrims had established the first self-government thingy, who wanted to go to virginia, but ended up in new england.

Who were the Puritans?

They were people who accepted different religion, allowing people to freely join their group

The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England

They wer landowners who gave up their land due to slavery

The Pilgrims were a group of people from Babworth, East Retford, and Nottinghamshire, England who came together around 1600. An aversion to the Church of England. Lead by Parson Richard Clyfton, these Separatists thought the Church of England had lost its way, so much so that they believed the Church was beyond repair.

What was the middle passage?

It only contained puritans who traded for slaves

It was passage where slave ships would trade goods (and slaves)

It was a passage where slaves were forced to stack in ships, with very low quality, voyaging to work in the americas.

It was a passage where people had died mysteriously without any last words left for their loved ones/friends

What are cash crops?

Cash crops were plants that had ONLY been traded in the middle passage

Cash crops are plants that were grown in order to be sold, in order to get money for farmers

Quakers established a community for themselves and other persecuted religious minorities in what would become the modern state of Pennsylvania.

False

True

Unit 1 Test for Social Studies Mr.Johnson

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