Week 5 Quiz

Which colony correctly completes this diagram?

• Maryland
• Virginia
• South Carolina
• Georgia

From 1690 to 1760, Parliament and the king of England allowed colonists in America to exercise a great deal of control over local and regional matters. Historians have described this practice as “salutary neglect”

• The colonies developed a strong tradition of self-government
• Many proprietary colonies were converted to royal colonies
• The colonies refused to participate in a system of common defense
• Many colonies sought economic aid from other countries

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

• The Puritans allowed women to participate in government
• The Puritans refused to obey the appointed governor
• The Puritans outlawed slavery in Massachusetts
• The Puritans developed a form of representative self-government

Which of the following contributed most to the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade during the 1700s?

• A lack of skilled labor in the American colonies
• Demand for slaves in the American colonies that produced cash crops
• A lack of protective tariffs in the American colonies
• Demand for slaves in the industrialized American colonies

Which of the following was a major reason for the flow of the transatlantic slave trade shown on the map?

• The economic demands of the plantation system
• The construction needs of the railroad
• Increased textile manufacturing
• Increased western migration

Catholics immigrated to the Maryland colony in the seventeenth century primarily to --

• Profit from natural resources
• Avoid crop failures and famine
• Produce cash crops to pay off debts
• Escape persecution

Which factor most encouraged the growth of this trade?

• The invention of the steam engine
• The profitability of cash-crop agriculture
• The development of the factory system
• The establishment of protective tariffs

This diagram describes events in colonial America that are related to --

• The eventual adoption of the US Constitution
• The formation of a government controlled by religious officials
• The creation of a national system of checks and balances
• The establishment of the principle of religious freedom

a system of managing the wealth of a country or region

• political
• economy
• geography
• profit

farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced

• subsistence farming
• plantation farming
• cash crop farming
• sharecropping