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Georgia Milestones US History Module 1 Colonization and the Revolution overview quiz quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Why did the Southern Colonies develop a plantation economy while New England did not?

  2. Which region was known as the colonial 'breadbasket' for growing wheat and grain?

  3. Mercantilism was the policy that

  4. The Virginia House of Burgesses (1619) is significant because it was

  5. Salutary neglect refers to

  6. The Great Awakening is said to have helped unify the colonies because it

  7. What was the root cause that set the American Revolution in motion?

  8. The slogan 'no taxation without representation' meant that

  9. Which sequence places these events in the correct order, earliest to latest?

  10. Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was important because it

  11. The Declaration of Independence drew its idea of natural rights and government by consent most directly from

  12. When the Declaration says the people may 'alter or abolish' a destructive government, it expresses Locke's idea of

  13. Why is the Battle of Saratoga (1777) considered the turning point of the Revolution?

  14. The Revolutionary War effectively ended when the British army surrendered at

  15. Which statement best describes the Revolution's social impact on Native Americans?