Unit 2: Colonial Culture/Government QUIZ REVIEW

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.
• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.
• Wars that start over money.
• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

Mercantilist regulation in the 13 colonies began with the passage of which laws?

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Acts
• Townshend Acts
• Navigation Acts

What was "Salutary Neglect?"

• England neglected to enforce their own trade laws
• The colonists neglected to follow the trade laws
• The colonists neglected to salute the English flag
• None of the above

Who was the King of England during this time?

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
• King Henry VIII
• Queen Elizabeth
• King George III

What was it? This occurred when the colonies were first getting started. The British king gave colonists the freedom to rule the colonies as they wished. It was a good thing to the colonists at first because the colonies liked the freedom of being able to govern themselves. Colonists got no vote in British government, but they didn’t care because they had no British taxes and no British laws.

• Boston Tea Party

• Salutary Neglect

• Intolerable Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

Who was the popular evangelist who preached revivals during the "Great Awakening."

• Lord Baltimore
• John Peter Zenger
• John Winthrop
• John Edwards

This publisher was arrested for printing a series of articles and charged with libel.

• Lord Baltimore
• John Peter Zenger
• John Winthrop
• John Edwards

The case involving John Peter Zenger was an important step in establishing freedom of the press in America

• True
• Flase

What is the name of the triangular trade route in which Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas?

• Great Awakening
• Middle Passage
• House of Burgesses
• Mayflower Compact

The trial of John Peter Zenger led to this right in America. Because he was found "not guilty", this country has what is called...

• Freedom of Religion

• TV Freedom

• Freedom of Press

• Zenger Rules