Jamestown, Mercantilism & Triangular Trade

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Werowocomoco
• Yorktown
• Richmond
• Jamestown

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492
• 1607
• 1776
• 2007

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

• Provided an example of representative government. 1st example of Legislature in America.

• Established the first army in the New World.

• Regulated what the people were allowed to eat.

• Determined who could leave the colony.

Who said, "If you don't work, then you don't eat!"?

• Chief Powhatan
• Christopher Newport
• Lord De La Warr
• Captain John Smith

The most profitable agricultural product in the Virginia colony was

• lumber
• peanuts
• corn
• tobacco

What is mercantilism?

• where the colonies trade gold and silver.

• when the Mother Country (England) benefits off its colonies

• Wars that start over money.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

In this economic system, a mother country gained wealth by...

• allowing competition in the marketplace
• giving colonist political and religious freedom
• carefully controlling trade
• participating in the Great Awakening

The laws passed in Great Britain to control trade were called...

• The Act of Toleration
• The Magna Carta
• The English Bill of Rights
• The Navigation Acts

The trade system developed by the colonies between Europe, the West Indies and Africa was called...

• Salutary or Benign Neglect
• Mercantilism 
• Triangular Trade
• Navigation Acts

The part of the Triangular Trade used to transport slaves from Africa to the West Indies and the 13 colonies was called...

• The Slave Journey
• The Middle Passage
• The Northwest Passage