US History Regents Review

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

• factories
• sugar mills 
• large plantations
• tenant farming

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

One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was the inability of the central government to

• establish a postal system
• collect adequate taxes from the states
• control western lands
• admit new states to the Union