Bellringers

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2. Bellringer #1 The House of Burgesses was • The building in which the Virginia government met. • The governor’s building in Jamestown. • The General assembly of the representatives in the Virginia colony. • Another name for the Virginia Company.

3. The Answer is… C

4. Bellringer #2 Roger Williams and the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay colony disagreed about • The role of women in Puritanism. • Who could become a minister. • Who could be elected to the General Court. • The king’s authority over Native American lands. `

5. The Answer is… D

6. Bellringer #3 Which colony was founded as a “hold experiment” where complete political and religious freedom would be allowed? • Pennsylvania • Maryland • Georgia • New York

7. The Answer is… A

8. Bellringer #4 The economy of the Middle Colonies was based on • Lumbering and shipbuilding. • Wheat farming and fishing. • Tobacco and indigo cultivation. • Wheat farming and trade.

9. The Answer is… D

10. Bellringer #5 The purpose of these acts was to • Standardize colonial trade duties. • Ensure that colonial trade benefited England. • Help the depressed English shipping industry. • Provide work for English officials in the colonies.

11. The Answer is… B

12. Bellringer #6 Slavery in the Southern Colonies • Gradual development • Plantation Economy • Slave codes Which item comes next? • Fishing and lumber industries • Royal African Company • Urban Societies • Wheat boom

13. The Answer is… • B

14. Bellringer #7 Mercantilism mainly benefited • Colonial merchants • Proprietors of colonies • Colonial Landowners • Manufacturers and merchants in the home industry

15. The Answer is… • D

16. Bellringer #8 • The Great Awakening helped prepare the way for the American Revolution because it… • Appealed to people’s emotions • Established new religious congregations • Began in New England • Questioned traditional authority and taught that all were equal before God

17. The Answer is… • D

18. Bellringer #9 I was a political philosopher and one of the Enlightenment thinkers. I wrote about natural rights and the social contract theory of government. Who am I? • Jean Jacques Rousseau • John Locke • Baron Montesquieu • Jonathan Edwards

19. The Answer is… B

20. Bellringer #10 Which statement describes the Navigation Acts? • England’s 1st serious attempt to regulate colonial trade • The colonies’ only attempt to unite and regulate their own trade • Parliament’s reaction to French attempts to trade with the colonies • Regulation governing trade among the colonies and other countries

21. The Answer is… A

22. Bellringer #11 According to John Locke’s social contract theory, the right of a monarch to rule come • From Parliament • Through Heredity • From the people • From God as a diving right

23. The Answer is… C

24. Bellringer #12 The Proclamation of 1763 created tension between the colonies and Great Britain because Great Britain • Allowed France to keep New Orleans and the land west of the Mississippi River • Created a reservation for Native Americans in the Ohio Valley • Allowed the French in Quebec to keep their system of laws • Prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

25. The Answer is… D

26. Bellringer #13 • Individual piety • Emotional union with God • Questioning religious authority • New religious denominations These are characteristics of a movement called… • The Enlightenment • The Great Awakening • Separatism • Fundamentalism

27. The Answer is… B

28. Bellringer #14 The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 argued that the Stamp Act • Was unnecessary measure to regulate trade. • Violated the rights of British citizens and colonist alike. • Was taxation without representation. • Would hurt colonial trade with Great Britain.

29. The Answer is… C

30. Bellringer #15 What action by the colonists prompted the British to pass the Coercive Acts? • The Boston Massacre • The Boston Tea Party • The meeting of the First Continental Congress • The skirmishes at Lexington and Concord

31. The Answer is… B

32. Bellringer #16 What battles did the Americans win? • Philadelphia and Trenton • Brooklyn Heights and Saratoga • Bennington and Princeton • Ft. Ticonderoga and Germantown

33. The Answer is… C

34. Bellringer #17 I worked to unite all Bostonians to oppose British tax policies and helped the Massachusetts assembly organize resistance against Britain by coauthoring a “circular letter”. Who am I? • Benjamin Franklin • Patrick Henry • Thomas Jefferson • Samuel Adams

35. The Answer is… D

36. Bellringer #18 The Stamp Act outraged colonist because • It made sending letters more expensive • The stamps were printed in England, not in the colonies • It was the 1st direct tax on colonist • Parliament passed it in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party

37. The Answer is… C

38. Bellringer #19 The group that was MOST hurt by the American Revolution was • Federalist • Loyalist • Women • African Americans

39. The Answer is… B

40. Bellringer #20 As a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the new United States acquired • The area that would later become Alaska • The area that would later become Oregon and Washington • Florida • All the land between the new states and the Mississippi River

41. The Answer is… D

42. Bellringer # 21 The purpose of the Continental Congress was too… • Provide a central government for the colonies during the Revolutionary War • Provide a central government for the new nation • Provide a way for the colonies to meet and discuss actions against the British • Help the colonies to shape public opinion and coordinate plans

43. The Answer is… C

44. Bellringer #22 • By acting for the colonies that sent them to Philadelphia, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress applied the principle of… • Limited Government • Representative Democracy • Federalism • State’s rights

45. The Answer is… B

46. Bellringer #23 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson based this section of the Declaration of Independence on • Writings of Baron Montesquieu • Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense • The writings of John Locke • The Magna Carta

47. The Answer is… C

48. Bellringer #24 I was a Patriot in Boston. When the British decided to seize a military supply depot, I set out to warn the minutemen at Lexington and Concord that the British were coming… • Sam Adams • Paul Revere • Crispus Attucks • John Adams

49. The Answer is… B

50. Bellringer #25 The major turning point in the South during the Revolutionary War was • Battle of Bunker Hill • Yorktown • General Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga • Battle of Kings Mountain