American 1 Unit 1

Native Americans are believed to have come to North America thanks to an ice bridge from where?

• Europe

• Mexico

• Asia

• Atlantis

What was the name of the system that offered 50 acres of land to anyone who brought an indentured servant to the new world?

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Headright System

• Middle Passage

• House of Burgesses

This was the treaty created by the Pope that divided the New World by an imaginary line and gave the Western portion to Spain and the Eastern to Portugal

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Exploration

• Spanish Reconquista

The "Starving Time" is a period associated with what colony?

• Plymouth
• Massachusetts Bay
• New Netherland
• Jamestown

What is one way the use of slave labor in the Americas contributed to an expansion of the Atlantic slave trade?

• by decreasing the likelihood of famine or drought

• by reducing the need for fertilizers or crop rotation

• by raising the demand for livestock like cattle and horses

• by increasing the production of crops like rice and tobacco

What commercial activities were most significant to the economy of colonial New England and other Northern colonies?

• trading, shipbuilding, and fishing
• tobacco, rice, and indigo farming 
• manufacturing and finance 
• lumber and mining

What are the three regions of the original colonies?

• North, East, South

• Plymouth, Phoenix, Pittsburgh

• New England, Middle, Southern

• Pacific, Atlantic, Central

Which colonial region was best known for having plantations?

• The Southern Colonies
• The Middle Colonies
• The New England Colonies

The colony of Georgia was originally founded for:

• French Traders

• Enslaved Africans

• Catholics

• English debtors and prisons

Being successful at mercantilism would mean that:

• A nation has more exports than imports

• A nation has more imports than exports

• A nation's imports and exports are equal

• A nation has more trade than their neighbor