Garza STAAR Review A

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

• Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Roanoke, Virginia

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Boston, Massachusetts

Jamestown was founded for economic reasons, what was the major cash crop (crop grown for profit)?

• Cotton
• Tobacco
• Corn
• Wheat

What was the 1st ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE assembly in the 13 colonies?

• Congress

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• The Constitution

What is the name of the trading system that carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa , Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers?

• Triangular Trade
• Navigation Acts
• Fugitive Slave Act
• North America Free Trade Agreement

Boston and New Orleans were both founded as ...

• port cities.
• farming communities.
• industrial centers.
• military outposts.

Cause: Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765
Effect: ?
Which statement best completes the diagram?

• Colonists sought military support from France.
• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.
• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.
• Colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

Which of the following was an argument made against slavery in the 13 colonies?

• Manufacturers argued that slavery discouraged the development of industry.
• Farmers argued that using slave labor was expensive and inefficient.
• Quakers argued that slavery violated Christian principles.
• Puritans argued that slave trade encouraged materialism.

The economic theory that states “the mother country becomes more wealthy by controlling the trade between countries" is 

• Social Mobility
• Individualism
• Mercantilism
• Triangular Trade

John Locke believed in....

• separation of powers (3 branches)
• right to bear arms
• natural rights-life, liberty, property
• expanding slavery

Who wanted to purify the Church of England, not separate?

• Separatists
• Catholics
• Puritans
• Pilgrims