US Colonization

How did Mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the Colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the Middle Colonies

• By requiring colonists to enlist in the Military

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing colonists from trading with most foreign countries

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 debt

• escape persecution

Which statement best describes the influences of this document?

• It helped establish the practice of separation of church and state

• It was the first attempt to combine political and religious laws

• It established the concept of unalienable rights

• It outlined a plan for Independence from British rule

Which statement accurately describes the reasons for establishing Plymouth and Jamestown?

• Both colonies were established to bring wealth to stockholders.

• Plymouth’s founders intended to produce raw materials, while Jamestown’s founders expected to discover gold.

• Both colonies were established to limit the expansion of other European empires.

• Plymouth was founded as a refuge from religious persecution, while Jamestown was founded for commercial profit.

What was the first elected legislative body of government in Colonial America?

• General Assembly

• House of Burgesses

• Governor's Council

• House of Representatives

Why did the Pilgrims come to the Americas and settle in Plymouth? 

• They were trying to set up a base protect England from Spain. 
• They meant to sail to Africa, but turned west when they caught site of the Spanish Amanda. 
• They wanted to go to a place where they could invent "fidget spinners."
• They wanted a place where they could worship freely. 

One reason that the Mayflower Compact is considered important is ______________.

• It marked the beginning of political parties.
• It marked the beginning of a self government based on the will of the people.
• It established basic laws for all colonies to follow.
• It gave the colonists permission to collect taxes.

First written constitution in the American colonies that influenced many ideas that are found in the U.S. Constitution.

• Mayflower Compact
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Declaration of Independence
• Magna Carta

Social contract signed by many pilgrims in Plymouth; helped establish the idea of self-government.

• Declaration of Independence
• 1763 Compromise
• Magna Carta
• Mayflower Compact

1619 Virginia House of Burgesses, 1620 Mayflower Compact, 1639 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. 
WHAT IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE TITLE FOR THE ABOVE INFORMATION?

• Representative Governments in the Colonies
• Constitutions of the United States
• Three Branches of Government
• British Common Law