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Chapter 4: The Colonies Grow
      
  1.What natural resource was important to New England’s shipbuilding industry?  
  a.   lumber  
  b.   oil  
  c.   coal  
  d.   iron  
      
  2.The Middle Passage involved what type of cargo?  
  a.   molasses  
  b.   enslaved Africans  
  c.   rum  
  d.   sugar  
      
  3.North Carolina was a __________ colony.  
  a.   charter  
  b.   proprietary  
  c.   royal  
  d.   corporate  
      
  4.One of the important preachers of the Great Awakening was __________.  
  a.   William Bradford  
  b.   Jonathan Edwards  
  c.   Roger Williams  
  d.   Dwight Moody  
      
  5.One of the first cases concerning the free press in America involved __________.  
  a.   Benjamin Franklin  
  b.   George Whitefield  
  c.   Cotton Mather  
  d.   John Peter Zenger  
      
  6.The British and French clashed over territory in the __________ River valley.  
  a.   Ohio  
  b.   Potomac  
  c.   Mississippi  
  d.   Hudson  
      
  7.The most powerful group of Native Americans in the East was the __________ Confederacy.  
  a.   Cherokee  
  b.   Seminole  
  c.   Powhatan  
  d.   Iroquois  
      
  8.Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie sent __________ to establish a fort in the Ohio territory.  
  a.   Francis Drake  
  b.   Alexander Hamilton  
  c.   George Washington  
  d.   George Braddock  
      
  9.The British prime minister who directed Britain’s successful war effort was __________.  
  a.   William Pitt  
  b.   Benjamin Disraeli  
  c.   James Wolfe  
  d.   George Braddock  
      
  10.The Proclamation of 1763 __________.  
  a.   halted settlers’ westward expansion at the Appalachian Mountains.  
  b.   encouraged mining operations in the Appalachian Mountains.  
  c.   called for the colonies to unite in fighting the French.  
  d.   opened the Ohio territory to settlement.  

 






 
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