EOC Review (Standards 1-4)

 The differences in the economic development of the mid-Atlantic, New England, and Southern colonies can BEST be attributed to the

• customs of the immigrants
  
• geographic conditions there.
  
• level of the education of their citizens.
  
• differences in their colonial governments.

What product was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?

• cotton
• gold
• indigo
• tobacco

All of these terms are associated with what colonial North American region? 
· Quakers
· Catholics
· religious tolerance
· flexible social structure

• New England
  
•  West Indies
• Middle Colonies
• Southern Colonies

 In 1636, Roger Williams was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and founded Rhode Island, because he supported

• women's suffrage.
  
• the abolition of slavery.
  
• a separation of church and state.
  
• westward expansion of the colonies.
  

All of these describe what group of settlers in colonial North America?
· religious dissenters
· belief in hard work 
· social conformity
· New England

• Amish
• Quakers
• Puritans
• Catholics

Why did American colonists resent British taxes?

• American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury.
  
• Unlike American colonists, people who lived in Great Britain did not have to pay any duties .
  
• Americans did not elect representatives to Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.
  
• Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.
  

The political theory that people form governments for their mutual protection and that government rules only with the consent of those people is known as

• communism
• socialism
• divine right theory.
  
• social contract theory.
  

In English history, the Magna Carta (1215) and the English Bill of Rights (1689) both reinforced the concept of

• universal suffrage.
  
• a limited monarchy.
  
• religious toleration.
  
• a laissez-faire economy.
  

How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?

• by representing an effort in Britain to end the slave trade in the colonies
  
• by increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes.
  
• by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent
  
• by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament

The “Rule of Law” states that

• there should be no barriers to the right to vote.
  
• a just government derives its power from the governed.
  
• all people, including those who govern, must obey the law.
  
• a country’s citizens are the source of the government's power.