U.S History Test Bank

1. Which document prevented raising taxes and building an army without parliament's consent?

2. What was the "300 mile march known" as?

3. What was the belief of Social Darwinism?

4. What religious group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony or New England colony? 

5. The legislative body of the Colony of Virginia is known as? 

6. What term is used to describe when a strong country takes over a weaker country to steal their natural resources?

7. _________ allowed companies to assign their stock to a board of trustees who combine them into a new organization.

8. What was free enterprise?

9. Which colony believed in hard work and individual responsibility; one of the foundations of American culture and character?  

10. Who was John brown?

11. The English Bill of Rights required Parliament to meet regularly; and stated that the monarch could not raise taxes or build an army.

12. The Plain Indians are

13. What killed most native americans?

14. What does it mean that the "Native Americans" were "diverse"?

15.  An explorer who discovered America in 1492 is? 

16. Which colony is one of the middle colonies? 

17. Which colony depended on lumber, fish, and trade by sea to make a living due to cold weather and bad soil? 

18. The main Northern Fort of the Spanish colonial empire founded in 1565 by Pedro Mendendez de Avilos is called? 

19. Which colony was established by the puritans?  

20. Where did Columbus think he was when he landed in America? 

21. The Declaration of Independence was written by

22. Who believed that natural rights came from God?

23. __________ were people who build and manage businesses or enterprises in order to make a profit.

24. What document was signed by King John in 1215 that limited the power of the English Monarch and protected the rights of people to own property?

25. Which country did the thirteen original American colonies belong to prior to forming the United States? 

26. Which colony created model moral communities; a very strict religion with punishments for not following a strict religious and moral life? 

27. How did the technological innovations help expand America's natural resource?

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29. The first person to sign the declaration of independence was

30. To encourage settlements and to protect its colonies in border regions in the present-day Southwestern states and Florida, Spain established which of the following? 

31. What policy allowed business regulations to operate under minimal government regulation?

32. What is most likely true about the Plain Indians?

33. How was the government able to pacify the Native Americans?

34. The House of Burgesses is associated with which colony? 

35. Who came up with the idea of Natural rights?

36. The first English colony was formed in? 

37. What was New York originally called? 

38. What was the movement(s) in the 1740s that prepared the way for self-rule and encouraged independent thinking?

39. What was Sand Creek Massacre ?

40. North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia are part of which colonies?

41. Where did Columbus think he was when he landed in America? 

42. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is from which document?

43. ________ helped to promote the buying of Americans good.

44. Virginia's primary source of wealth came from? 

45. Which colony was Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware? 

46. Which document limited the power of the English Monarch and protected the rights of people to own private property?

47. What were the reservations?

48. A term used to describe the Middle colonies because of their fertile soil, ideal for farming is known as?  

49. The first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania.

50. Who helped to organize the supply of food, clothes, guns, and ammunition for the continental army?

51.  The first governing document of Plymouth Colony is called? 

52. Jamestown was the capital of which English colony? 

53. Who was Horatio Alger?

54. What were the businesses that JD rockefeller and Andrew Carbegie were known for?

55. How did the Bessemer Process help the production of steel?

56. What plan would merge competing firms into a giant company?