SSUSH6 a and B review

How was the settlement of Virginia different from the settlement of Massachusetts?

• Mass. was created as a haven for Quakers from England.
• VA was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.
• VA was created as a haven for Native Americans to escape persecution by English colonists.
• Mass. was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

Virginia’s House of Burgesses fulfilled which of the following roles?

• It met on board the Mayflower to draft laws that would help institute representative government in Massachusetts.
• It sparked the American Revolution by meeting and selecting Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
• It helped establish representative government in the colonies by serving as the first official elected body in British North America.
• It drafted a treaty ending the French and Indian War.

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors
• flatlands & lack of forests
• rocky soil and short growing season
• numerous rivers & humid climate

One important way that the Great Awakening affected American society was that

• it unified the New England churches.
• it supported the practice of slavery.
• it led individuals to question traditional authority.
• it introduced a system of checks and balances system for government.

What was the primary reason that slavery became more widespread in the South than in the North?

• The abolitionist movement was based in the North. 
• The textile industry was controlled by southern merchants
• Geographic factors contributed to the growth of the southern plantation system.
• Opposition to slavery by the Anglican Church was stronger in the North.

George Washington served as President from 

• 1989-1997
• 1789-1797
• 1776-1796
• 1175-1776

One precedent set by Washington was 

• serving two terms 
• being a military leader first 
• living in the white house 
• electing congressmen 

Washington established American _________________ during the French Revolution 

• Neutrality 
• Isolationism 
• trade
• Restrictions 

Second president of the United States 

• John Madison 
• John Adams 
• Thomas Jefferson 
• George Walton 

What impact did the cotton gin have on the South's economy?

• it increased the South's dependence on slave labor
• It decreased the South's dependence on foreign trade.
• It led to the end of the plantation system.
• It made the South more industrialized than the North.