SSUSH 1-23 Review

The first successful British colony in North America was

• Roanoke, Virginia
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Jamestown, Virginia

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Mid-Atlantic
• New England
• Southern
• Western

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.

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• It was the main crop the founders of Jamestown hoped to grow when they first established the colony.
• It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.
• It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.
• Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

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

A person who worked for another for 4-7 years to work off the debt he owed for his passage to the Americas; granted freedom and some land when time had been served

• Indentured servant
• Slave
• Mestizo
• Separatist

Which economic policy was based on the ideas that the American colonies existed primarily to provide an economic benefit for Great Britain?

• mercantilism
• free trade
• socialism
• laissez-faire capitalism

King Philip’s War was an example of

• Spain’s attempts to keep Great Britain and France out of the New World.
• Native Americans’ efforts to drive white settlers out of Jamestown.
• conflict that existed between New Englanders moving west and Native Americans.
• the struggle between the French and British for control of North America.

A series of four acts that required all goods being shipped to and from the colonies to be shipped in English vessels

• Navigation Acts
• British Maritime Laws
• Anti-Smuggling Acts
• Blue Laws

Bacon’s Rebellion resulted from Nathaniel Bacon’s sympathy with the problems faced by 

• religious separatists
• Native American peoples
• wealthy planters and landowners
• English settlers on the frontier