5th Social Studies Exam.

Achievement indicator: Recognizes conclusions about the lasting

impact of the Columbian Exchange on the cultures of European,
Native American, and African peoples.
1. Which statement best defines the Columbian Exchange?
A. The trade of goods and ideas between Europeans, Africans, and American
Indians.
B. A slave trade between Europeans and Africans that financed Columbus’s
voyages.
C. The passing of germs from Europeans to American Indians that resulted in
epidemics.
D. the passage of European officials across the Atlantic to fill new positions in
colonial governments.

Achievement indicator: Analyzes the consequences of the

Columbian Exchange, both positive and negative.
2. Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

What negative effect of the Columbian Exchange is shown here?

A. War
B. Trade
C. Slavery
D. Disease

Achievement indicator: Describe the relationship between

Native Americans and English settlers
In New England.
 3. Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

What does the picture show about the relationship between

American Indians and English settlers in New England?
A. American Indians often fought with English settlers.
B. American Indians often cooperated with English settlers.
C. American Indians competed with one another to trade with
settlers.
D. American Indians decided how to interact with English settlers
individually.

Achievement indicator: Summarizes the religious and

economic reasons that prompted
Pilgrims and Puritans to settle in
New England.
4. Look at the graphic organizer. Then answer the question.

Which answer completes the graphic organizer correctly?

A. A: led by John Winthrop; built a “City upon a Hill”
B: Separatists; left England to spread Catholicism
C: landed at Plymouth; saved by Wampanoag Indians
 B. A: financed by the Massachusetts Bay Company
B: investors; came to spread teachings of the Church of England
C: financed by an English company

C. A: Separatists; owed service to English investors

B: Protestants; left England to worship freely
C: arrived in America after the Pilgrims and in greater numbers

D. A: influenced by the Reformation

B: indentured servants; agreed to export goods to England
C: influenced by the Counter-Reformation

Achievement indicator: Describes ways in which Africans

resisted slavery.
5. Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

What does this picture show about life in the communities of New
England?
A. There were harsh penalties for breaking religious rules.
B. The community elected church officials to enforce laws.
C. The religious themes of love and forgiveness were most
important.
D. The settlers built Praying Towns and pillories to convert American
Indians.

Achievement indicator: Compares and contrasts the physical

geography and location of the New England, Middle, and
Southern colonies.
6. Study the chart. Then answer the question.
Based on the information in the chart, which colonial region(s) focused
on shipping, fishing, and shipbuilding?
A. Southern
B. New England
C. New England and Middle
D. New England and Southern

Achievement indicator: Analyzes the role of religion and

government in the New England
Colonies .
7. Read the passage. Then answer the question.
Many colonists came to the English colonies in North America to
escape religious persecution. Yet, freedom to express other beliefs
was not usually tolerated. The Puritans banished those who did not
practice their religion in the same way. Catholics were not welcome
in many colonies, but Lord Baltimore, being Catholic himself,
welcomed Catholics in Maryland but not other religions. Many
Anglicans settled in Virginia, where Catholics were not welcome.
William Penn was a Quaker, and he opened up Pennsylvania to all
people of all religions.

Which conclusion can you draw about religious tolerance based on

the text?
A. The Puritans were the least tolerant.
B. The Quakers were the most tolerant.
C. The Catholics were the least tolerant.
D. The Anglicans were the most tolerant.

Achievement Indicator: Describes triangular trade, including the goods

exported by colonists and
The goods.
 8. Study the map. Then answer the question.

Which goods traveled east in the triangular trade?

A. Enslaved Africans, gold, iron products
B. Tools, tea, clothing, other manufactured goods
C. Timber, grain, tobacco, rice, rum, iron products
D. Grain, meat, fish, sugar, molasses, enslaved Africans

Read the passage below. Then answer the question 9.

Achievement Indicator: Identifies details in a paragraph.
The geography of the colonial regions affected their economic
development. Because of its location and climate, the economy of
the New England Colonies was centered on shipping, shipbuilding,
whale hunting, and trade. In the Middle Colonies, shipbuilding,
shipping, and trade were also important. The geography of this
region also supported the cultivation of wheat. The Southern
Colonies relied heavily on agriculture because of the climate and
soil. Timber was an available resource in all three colonial regions,
but shipbuilding was not as important in the Southern Colonies
because of the dominance of agriculture.
Achievement Indicator: Explain and give examples of the work
of apprentices, artisans, farmers,
and enslaved Africans, and other
workers in the colonies.
 9. Which of the following is a detail that supports the main idea of the
passage?
A. Colonists in the Middle Colonies cultivated wheat.
B. Whale hunting was a key economic activity in New England.
C. Shipbuilding was important in the Middle and New England
Colonies.
D. The Southern Colonies relied on farming because of the climate
and soil.

Achievement Indicator: Explains the contributions of enslaved

Africans to the colonies.
10. Which conclusion can you draw about enslaved Africans in the
northern colonies?
A. They attended school to learn how to read and write.
B. They worked mainly on plantations to cultivate cash crops.
C. They performed a variety of jobs in the city or in the country.
D. They outnumbered enslaved Africans in the southern colonies.

Achievement Indicator: Identifies facts and opinions between

French and Dutch.
11. Which of the following statement is an opinion?
A. The Dutch captured New Sweden’s colony in 1655.
B. The English colonies had the largest population of settlers.
C. France tried several systems of government in New France.
D. The French did not deserve to keep control of their territories.

Use the map below to answer the questions

12 and 13.
 Achievement Indicator: Identifies the difficulties Pilgrims founded in
the 1620s. (12 and 13)
12. The Pilgrims first landed at a place called Cape Cod. But they soon
moved inland, to the
site of the Plymouth Plantation. Why did they not stay in Cape Cod?
A. Because Cape Cod was full of mosquitoes, which carried
disease.
B. Because the Native Americans in Cape Cod warned the Pilgrims to
leave or face a war.
C. Because the soil was poor, and they wanted to settle in a place
that had good soil for
Farming.
D. Because the Spanish had a fort at Cape Cod, and Spanish soldiers
attacked the Pilgrims
to force them to leave.

13. Which of the following BEST describes life at Plymouth Plantation?

A. Life was focused on education. Children spent all day in school.
B. Life was based on farming. The Pilgrims enslaved the local Native
Americans and used
their labor to grow many cash crops.
C. Life at Plymouth Plantation was a series of wars with Native
Americans and Spanish
invaders.
D. Life was hard. The Pilgrims had to grow their own food and
build their own houses.
Everyone, including children, had to work.

Achievement Indicator: Identifies the religion in the New

England Colonies different groups
practiced.
14. Which religious group settled in the New England colonies?
A. Puritans
B. Quakers
B. Catholics
C. Anglicans

Achievement Indicator: Recognizes why and how the

English started settlements in
Virginia.
15. Which of the following was a key factor in the survival and progress of the
English colony
at Jamestown?
 A. Enslaved Africans taught the settlers how to grow rice. Rice
became an important
cash crop in Jamestown.
B. The Virginia Company finally began to earn profits when John
Rolfe started to grow
a New type of tobacco in Jamestown.
C. King James I finally sent a large English army to Jamestown to
subdue the Spanish
forces that had been attacking the English colonists.
D. In 1610, King James I sent hundreds of English families to the
colony. The new settlers
started large farms, and the colony developed a strong
economy based on farming.

Achievement Indicator: Identifies important crops were

planted in Virginia.
16. Which of the following became an important cash crop in
Jamestown?
A. Rice
B. Tobacco
C. Coffee
D. Tomatoes

Achievement Indicator: Describes important colonies

founded by Quakers.
17. Which colony was founded by Quakers?
A. Delaware
B. New York
C. New Jersey
D. Pennsylvania

Achievement Indicator: Summarize the religious and economic

reasons that prompted Pilgrims and Puritans to settle in New England.
18. The Pilgrims cooperated with the Native Americans, and both groups
benefited. The
Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. That led to
conflict between
the two groups.
Which of the following is true about these statements?
A. The statements are correct about both the Pilgrims and the
Puritans.
 B. The statements are incorrect about both the Pilgrims and the
Puritans.
C. The statements are correct about the Pilgrims, but incorrect about
the Puritans.
D. The statements are correct about the Puritans, but incorrect about
the Pilgrims.

Achievement Indicator: Summarize the sequence of events leading

to a permanent settlement in Virginia.
19. Which of the following statements is true about the relationship
between the Pilgrims
and the Native Americans?
A. In general, the Pilgrims did not cooperate with the Native
Americans.
B. The Wampanoag people helped the Pilgrims because the Pilgrims
protected them from
their Native American foes.
C. Native Americans refused to help the Pilgrims because the
Pilgrims took their land by
force.
D. Pilgrim attempts to enslave Native Americans led to many violent
clashes between the
two groups.

Achievement Indicator: Identifies similarities and differences between

the colonies of New France
and New Netherland similar.
20. In which of the following ways were the colonies of New France and New
Netherland
similar?
A. Neither colony had any contact with Native Americans.
B. Both colonies began to import enslaved Africans as soon as they started
settlements
In North America.
C. Both colonies had to fight off invasions by the British army in North
America.
D. Fur trading with Native Americans was an important economic
activity in both
colonies.