8th Grade History Test 2

Question 1

Because they produced an abundance of grain, which colonies were known as the “bread colonies.”

Answer 1

middle

Question 2

Whose most famous sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

Answer 2

Jonathan Edwards’s

Question 3

Sparsely populated land on the edge of a settlement was called the

Answer 3

frontier

Question 4

the great revival of the 1700s was called the Great Awakening in what country?

Answer 4

America

Question 5

Which king of England in 1760 determined to bring the colonists into subjection?

Answer 5

George III

Question 6

The French and Indian War was called what in other parts of the world?

Answer 6

Seven years’ War

Question 7

Which colonies were poorly suited for agriculture due to long winters, a short growing season, and rocky terrain?

Answer 7

New England colonies

Question 8

the idea that the colonies should supply English factories with raw materials and then buy the goods they produced was called

Answer 8

mercantilism

Question 9

a renowned Boston silversmith

Answer 9

Paul Revere

Question 10

encouraged founding of public libraries

Answer 10

Benjamin Franklin

Question 11

conducted singing schools

Answer 11

William Billings

Question 12

astronomer who built an all-wood clock

Answer 12

Benjamin Banneker

Question 13

helped to introduce the smallpox vaccine

Answer 13

Cotton Mather

Question 14

taxed legal documents

Answer 14

Stamp Act

Question 15

made it legal to force colonists to supply housing for British soldiers

Answer 15

Quartering Act

Question 16

made all previous land grants null and void

Answer 16

Proclamation of 1763

Question 17

said the colonies were “subordinate” to England

Answer 17

Declaratory Act

Question 18

barred settlements in all lands west of the Appalachians

Answer 18

Proclamation of 1763

Question 19

What period comprised the colonial era?

Answer 19

founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the outbreak of the American War for Independence in 1775

Question 20

What religious group wrote the first classical music to be composed in America?

Answer 20

Moravians

Question 21

What was a hornbrook?

Answer 21

a board with printed Scripture and the alphabet

Question 22

List three schools / universities founded by religious denominations.

Answer 22

College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Rutgers University

Question 23

What Englishman was a leader in America’s Great Awakening?

Answer 23

George Whitefield

Question 24

What did the French rename the English fort they captured at the beginning of the French and Indian War?

Answer 24

Fort Duquesne

Question 25

What general led the British troops in the French and Indian War?

Answer 25

General Braddock

Question 26

What does it mean to fight “like an Indian”?

Answer 26

using rocks and trees for cover during a fight

Question 27

What happened on the Plains of Abraham in the final battle of the French and Indian War?

Answer 27

the British met the French and defeated them

Question 28

organized the Methodist denomination in England

Answer 28

John Wesley

Question 29

preached to crowds of up to 20,000 people

Answer 29

George Whitefield

Question 30

best-known missionary to the Indiand

Answer 30

David Brainerd

Question 31

colonial America’s foremost theologian

Answer 31

Jonathan Edwards

Question 32

natural pass in the Appalachian Mountains that allowed settler to travel west

Answer 32

Cumberland Gap

Question 33

the most widely used textbook in colonial America

Answer 33

New England Primer

Question 34

the term for boys who were placed under a craftsman to learn a trade

Answer 34

apprentices

Question 35

the name of Ben Franklin’s famous publication containing meteorological and astronomical information, proverbs, sound advice, and good humor

Answer 35

Poor Richard’s Almanac

Question 36

the title given to the chief executive officer of a colony

Answer 36

governor

Question 37

the name of the local militia unit led by George Washington

Answer 37

Virginia Rangers

Question 38

the war that helped prepare the colonists for the War for Independence by uniting them in defense of their homes and families

Answer 38

French and Indian War

Question 39

type of craftsman who shod horses and forged tools, farm implements, and wagon parts

Answer 39

blacksmith

Question 40

Study the map of Canada.

Answer 40

CANADA

Question 41

Describe the three types of colonial government, and name at least one example for each.

Answer 41

• The colonies were divided into three categories according to their government: royal colonies, proprietary colonies, and self-governing colonies. Royal colonies were controlled directly by the king; however, the colonists had some say in their government. Royal colonies included Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Georgia.
• Proprietary colonies were those in which the king granted a tract of land to a nobleman who generally ruled as he saw fit. Examples of this type of colony were Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.
• Self-governing colonies governed their own affairs without direct involvement by the king or a proprietor. Rhode Island and Connecticut were self-governing.