CERTIFICATION EVALUATION 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ John Calvin.
Answer: 1509-1564. French theologian. Developed the Christian
theology known as Calvinism. Attracted Protestant followers with
his teachings.
◉ Mercantilism.
Answer: 1500s English mercantilism, a state-assisted manufacturing
and trading system, created and maintained markets. The markets
provided a steady supply of consumers and laborers, stimulated
economic expansion, and increased English wealth.
◉ Bacon's Rebellion.
Answer: 1676-77 a new clash arose in Virginia the same year that
New Englanders crushed Metacom's forces. This conflict, known as
Bacon's Rebellion, grew out of tensions between Native Americans
and English settlers as well as tensions between wealthy English
landowners and the poor settlers
◉ Intolerable Acts.
, Answer: series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea
Party
◉ Salem Witch Trials.
Answer: 1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village
marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress
◉ William Penn.
Answer: A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place
where his people and others could live in peace and be free from
persecution.
◉ Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
Answer: 1776 Thomas Paine's Common Sense argued for
independence by denouncing monarchy and challenging the logic
behind the British Empire, saying, "There is something absurd, in
supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."
◉ Headright System (1618).
Answer: A policy first announced by the Virginia Company in 1618,
by which the company granted 50 acres of land to any colonist who
paid for his own or another's passage to Virginia.
◉ "City on a Hill,".