US History Regents Review

New England’s geographic features most directly influenced the region’s development of

• factories
• sugar mills 
• large plantations
• tenant farming

A major reason the American colonists of the 1600s chose to settle along the seacoast and rivers was so that they could

• export slaves
• carry out trade
• protect themselves from Native American Indians
• use water power to run factory machinery

Which geographic features had the most significant positive influence on settlement patterns and economic development in the British North American colonies?

• rivers and harbors
•  mountains and plateaus 
• forests and deserts
• prairies and lakes

• Colonists protest the Stamp Act.
• Sons of Liberty groups are formed.
• Crates of tea are thrown into Boston Harbor.
• Parliament passes Coercive Acts.
These events helped lead to the

• French and Indian War
• Revolutionary War
• Whiskey Rebellion
• War of 1812

Under the British system of mercantilism, the American colonies served primarily as a 

• self-suffi cient trading partner for other European nations
• market for British manufactured goods and a source of raw materials
• source of manpower for the British army and navy
• buffer to the expansion of French and Spanish colonies

During the 1600s and 1700s, the fundamental goal of British mercantilism was to

• prohibit all exports of raw materials from the colonies
• encourage economic competition with the American colonies
•  develop manufacturing within the colonies 
• maintain a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain with its colonies

The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by Great Britain after the French and Indian War primarily to

• promote colonial settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains 
• limit conflict between Native American Indians and colonial settlers
• encourage colonial economic ties with France
• force French settlers to leave British territory

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?
I. _________________________________
A. House of Burgesses
B. Mayflower Compact
C. New England town meetings
D. Albany Plan of Union

• Early Colonial Documents
• Limits on Representative Government
•  Contributions of the Enlightenment
• Foundations of American Democracy

The phrase “consent of the governed” refers to the

• source of the government’s power
• need to create political parties
• commitment to use implied powers
•  development of a federal system of government

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?
I.___________________________________
A. National government unable to levy direct taxes B. No single national currency
C. Lack of an elected chief executive

• Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
• Strengths of the Continental Congress
• Provisions of the United States Constitution
• Influence of Treaties with European Governments