APUSH REVIEW Per 1 & 2

What accounts most for the scant success of the Navigation Act of 660 in modifying English colonial behavior in North America?

• Weak economic growth and the lack of external competition

• Decades of the British government’s relative indifference to colonial governance

• The presence of slavery and growing colonial wars

• The rejection of Anglicanism in the colonies

Which of the following had the most impact in shaping colonial resistance to the Navigation Acts?

• Political thought shaped by the Enlightenment

• conflicts with American Indian groups

• the growth of the African slave trade

• Colonial dedication to mercantilist principles

After the Seven Years’ War, Britain shifted its position on imperial regulations to

• promote greater colonial migration to the West.

• find ways to safeguard its borders and maintain neutral trading rights.

• alleviate its massive debt from the war.

• end trading, commerce, and negotiations with American Indians

Which of the following best describes the role of Britain’s more northern colonies in the global trade as illustrated in the map?

• They took advantage of long growing seasons by using slave labor to grow staple crops.

• They relied solely on the cultivation of tobacco.

• They had an export economy based on food products and raw materials.

• They primarily exported furs and manufactured goods

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Britain’s greatest challenge in controlling the North American Atlantic trade illustrated above was

• the growth of regional distinctiveness

• external competition

• repeated colonial wars

• widespread corruption in the imperial system

In the early 19th century, the United States used tariffs to solve some of the problems of Atlantic trade, resulting in

• regional interests continuing to trump national concerns.

• unifying a new national culture

• a limiting of the American System

• the continued growth of cotton production

“…Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion has frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practiced, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this Province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants thereof. Be it therefore enacted that no person or persons whatever in the Province…professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within the Province…nor in any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent, so [long] as they not be unfaithful to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civil government established in this Province under him…”

Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1644

The passage above was most likely written in response to

• the growth of autonomous political communities based on English models.

• Protestant evangelism in North America

• the ethnic and religious diversity of the middle colonies

• the expanding social networks of the Atlantic World

“…Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion has frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practiced, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this Province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants thereof. Be it therefore enacted that no person or persons whatever in the Province…professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within the Province…nor in any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent, so [long] as they not be unfaithful to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civil government established in this Province under him…”

Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1644

The ideas expressed in the passage above most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

• Resistance to imperial control in the British colonies

• The British government’s indifference to colonial governance

• Greater religious independence in the colonies

• A strong belief in British cultural superiority

“…Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion has frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practiced, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this Province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants thereof. Be it therefore enacted that no person or persons whatever in the Province…professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within the Province…nor in any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent, so [long] as they not be unfaithful to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civil government established in this Province under him…”

Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1644

The ideas expressed in the passage above most directly led to political controversies over

• Britain’s indifference to colonial governance

• Britain’s efforts to pursue mercantilist economic aims.

• the presence of slavery in the colonies.

• the spread of European Enlightenment ideas.

The map above indicates the encomienda system was least developed in which of the following areas?

• California

• Mexico

• Caribbean

• the Southwest