American 1 1.8

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence? 

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke 
• Adam Smith

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Divine Right of Kings

Which best describes an important effect of the First Great Awakening?

• Followers put suspected witches on trial
• Puritans in England immigrated to settlements in the New World
• People became more emotionally engaged in religion

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God best describes which aspect of colonial culture?

• Great Awakening
• Manifest Destiny
• Catholic Church

Which country was first to establish a colony in the New World?

• England
• Portugese
• Spain
• Norway

Why did the French choose to setup their colony along the St. Lawrence and Mississippi Rivers?

• to establish a fur trade
• to establish a food trade
• to establish a gold trade
• to establish a fish market

What is an encomienda?

• a small farm that produced cash crops
• a large plantation that produces cash crops
• a large desert without cash crops
• a village with cash crops

Early colonist who brought tobacco plants to Jamestown, Virginia, saving the colony, turning it from a living hell to America's first boomtown:

• John Smith
• William Penn
• John Rolfe
• Myles Standish

What is the name of the transfer of flora, fauna, pathogens and ideas between the Old World and New World?

• Columbian Exchange
• Middle Passage
• Headright System
• House of Burgesses