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What product was a valuable cash crop for plantation owners in the southern region?

• corn
• wheat
• tobacco
• lettuce

The House of Burgesses is important in history because it was the

• the first time a council advised the Virginia Company

• only legislative body in England

• first election of women as leaders

• first representative house in America

• Distance from England
• Mayflower Compact
• Town Hall Meetings

The factors listed above contributed to...

• creation of alliances between British settlers and American Indians

• election of British colonists to Parliament

• growth of representative government in the British colonies

• expansion of British trade in the Americas

Based on the political cartoon, how does mercantilism benefit the mother country?

• The mother country always has something to eat.

• The mother country can get rich from the colonies.

• The colonies provide raw goods to the mother country.

What was stated in the Proclamation of 1763?

• Colonists were banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Colonists were encouraged to begin settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• The Proclamation ended the French and Indian War.

• The Proclamation proclaimed independence for the American colonists.

Why did King George III tax the colonists so heavily?

• He hated the colonist
• He wanted more money for himself
• The national debt increase from the French and Indian War
• To make money for the colonies

This American victory won foreign recognition and alliance.

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington and Concord

Who was the major author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Benjamin Franklin
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Patrick Henry

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What are the three unalienable rights that all people have that England violated?

• Food, Shelter, and Clothing

• Life, Liberty and Death

• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

What are the three branches of government in the U.S.?

• Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

• Congressional, Legislative, and Representative

• Temperamental, Progressive, and Comprehensive

• Judicial, Legislative, and Presidential