APUSH Periods 1 and 2

which group focused their settlements primarily on the trading of fur?

• English
• Portugese
• French
• Spanish

The most important export from the Virginia colony was 

• Cotton
• Tobacco
• Rice
• Corn

Which of the following groups were the authors of the Maryland Act of Toleration trying to protect?

• Jews
• Puritans
• Quakers
• Roman Catholics

To encourage settlers to come to Jamestown, the headright system offered ___ to people who would pay for someone's passage.

• Land 
• Employment
• Profit-sharing
• Passage to Virginia

According to the theory of mercantilism, a country has a favorable balance of trade when

• It does not depend on products from other countries
• Other countries do not depend on its products
• The value of exports is less than the value of imports
• The value of exports is greater than the value of imports

The age of salutary neglect drew to a close with...

• the Boston Tea Party
• the formation of the Republic of Texas
• the Salem Witch Trials
• the end of the French and Indian War

Which of the following statements about indentured servitude is true?

• indentured servitude was the means by which most Africans came to the New World
• indentured servitude never attracted many people because its terms were too harsh
• approximately half of all indentured servants died before earning their freedom
• indenture was one of several systems used to distinguish house slaves from field slaves

The Mayflower Compact foreshadows the US Constitution in which of the following ways?

• it posits the source of government power in the people rather than in God
• it ensures both the right to free speech and the separation of church and state
• it limits the term of office for all government officials
• it establishes three branches of government in order to create a system of checks/balances

The first important cash crop in the American colonies was...

• cotton
• corn
• tea
• tobacco

All of the following are examples of conflicts between colonists and native American tribes EXCEPT...

• Bacon's Rebellion
• the Pequot War
• the Stono Uprising
• King Philip's War