HISTORY 104 SOPHIA US HISTORY MILESTONE
3 FINAL PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ House of Burgesses. Answer: 1st legislative body in New World (in
Virginia)
◉ Tobacco. Answer: cash crop "brown gold"
◉ Powhaton. Answer: Native American chieftain in Virginia
◉ Bacon's Rebellion. Answer: uprising against govt//in Virginia
◉ Half-way covenant. Answer: partial church member for Puritan
◉ King Phillip's War. Answer: 1675, early conflict b/w Eng & Native
Am.
◉ Mass. Charter. Answer: became Mass. Bay Colony in 1691;
rebellious
◉ Salem witch trials. Answer: 1690's, Massachusetts, accusations
,◉ Pennsylvania. Answer: founded by William Penn, Quakers
◉ New Amsterdam. Answer: founded by the Dutch, 1664, New York
◉ Quebec. Answer: 1st permanent settlement in present day
Canada; French
◉ Mercantilism. Answer: wealth in gold, sell more than buy
◉ Trans-Atlantic trade. Answer: mercantilism, shipping goods
to/from Europe and Africa
◉ Middle Passage. Answer: slaves from Africa to New World in
triangle trade
◉ Ben Franklin. Answer: American founding father, ambassador to
France, socially mobile and demonstrated individualism
◉ Great Awakening. Answer: 1730s/1740s, religious revival
◉ French & Indian War. Answer: GB and France, 1754, over control
of land
, ◉ Treaty of Paris 1763. Answer: ended the French and Indian War
◉ Proclamation of 1763. Answer: forbid settling west of
Appalachian mtns.
◉ Stamp Act. Answer: special stamps on printed documents; tax
◉ Intolerable Acts. Answer: closed Boston Harbor for Boston Tea
Party; quartering
◉ Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Answer: Groups that resisted
British taxes; stopped buying British goods
◉ Paine/Common Sense. Answer: 1776, pamphlet supporting
independence
◉ Committee of Correspondence. Answer: committees formed
because communication could NOT be done publicly
◉ Dec. of Independence. Answer: most important document in Am.
history; explained the colonists grievances against British
3 FINAL PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ House of Burgesses. Answer: 1st legislative body in New World (in
Virginia)
◉ Tobacco. Answer: cash crop "brown gold"
◉ Powhaton. Answer: Native American chieftain in Virginia
◉ Bacon's Rebellion. Answer: uprising against govt//in Virginia
◉ Half-way covenant. Answer: partial church member for Puritan
◉ King Phillip's War. Answer: 1675, early conflict b/w Eng & Native
Am.
◉ Mass. Charter. Answer: became Mass. Bay Colony in 1691;
rebellious
◉ Salem witch trials. Answer: 1690's, Massachusetts, accusations
,◉ Pennsylvania. Answer: founded by William Penn, Quakers
◉ New Amsterdam. Answer: founded by the Dutch, 1664, New York
◉ Quebec. Answer: 1st permanent settlement in present day
Canada; French
◉ Mercantilism. Answer: wealth in gold, sell more than buy
◉ Trans-Atlantic trade. Answer: mercantilism, shipping goods
to/from Europe and Africa
◉ Middle Passage. Answer: slaves from Africa to New World in
triangle trade
◉ Ben Franklin. Answer: American founding father, ambassador to
France, socially mobile and demonstrated individualism
◉ Great Awakening. Answer: 1730s/1740s, religious revival
◉ French & Indian War. Answer: GB and France, 1754, over control
of land
, ◉ Treaty of Paris 1763. Answer: ended the French and Indian War
◉ Proclamation of 1763. Answer: forbid settling west of
Appalachian mtns.
◉ Stamp Act. Answer: special stamps on printed documents; tax
◉ Intolerable Acts. Answer: closed Boston Harbor for Boston Tea
Party; quartering
◉ Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Answer: Groups that resisted
British taxes; stopped buying British goods
◉ Paine/Common Sense. Answer: 1776, pamphlet supporting
independence
◉ Committee of Correspondence. Answer: committees formed
because communication could NOT be done publicly
◉ Dec. of Independence. Answer: most important document in Am.
history; explained the colonists grievances against British
