US History Test 1 Study Guide

Question 1

1. What was the British policy that did not allow colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?

Answer 1

Proclamation of 1763

Question 2

2. Who were the leaders of the Great Awakening?

Answer 2

Jonathon Edwards and George Whitefield

Question 3

3. What was the name given to colonists loyal to the King of England?

Answer 3

Loyalists

Question 4

4. What was the name given to colonists seeking independence?

Answer 4

Patriots

Question 5

5. At which event did British soldiers fire into a crowd and kill 5 people?

Answer 5

Boston Massacre

Question 6

6. What war initiated the incredible amount of taxation from the British upon the colonists?

Answer 6

French and Indian War

Question 7

7. At what meeting was the Declaration of Independence created?

Answer 7

Second Continental Congress

Question 8

8. What was the first written constitution in American drafted in one of the New England Colonies?

Answer 8

Articles of Confederation

Question 9

9. What were the causes of the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 9

Girls claiming to be possessed by the devil; multiple accusations; mass hysteria

Question 10

10. What was the impact of the Salem Witch Trials

Answer 10

called for separation of church and state