AMH 2010 Unit 1

Was settled by the Puritans

• Roanoke Island

• Plymouth Colony

• Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts Bay

Was settled by the Quakers

• Jamestown

• Pennsylvania

• Roanoke Island

• Georgia

which group focused their settlements primarily on the trading of fur?

• English
• Portugese
• French
• Spanish

The most important export from the Virginia colony was 

• Cotton
• Tobacco
• Rice
• Corn

To encourage settlers to come to Jamestown, the headright system offered ___ to people who would pay for someone's passage.

• Land 
• Employment
• Profit-sharing
• Passage to Virginia

According to the theory of mercantilism, a country has a favorable balance of trade when

• It does not depend on products from other countries
• Other countries do not depend on its products
• The value of exports is less than the value of imports
• The value of exports is greater than the value of imports

Which statement provides the BEST description of how mercantilism functioned in the early English colonies?

• The geography of England made it difficult to produce agricultural goods like cotton, tobacco, fruit, and spices.
• The policy appealed to England's upper class citizens because it eased overpopulation and reduced poverty and crime.
• Mercantilism was a trade policy based on the idea that a country should sell more to other countries than it buys from them.
• The English colonies were used as a source of food crops, tobacco, and raw materials for England; the colonies also served as a valuable market for English goods.

As a result of England's policy of salutary neglect, the colonies developed 

• A desire for fine British goods
• A self-sufficient economy
• A desire for greater self-sufficiency
• A disloyal attitude toward Britain

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of indentured servitutde?

• poor workers, convicted criminals, and debtors received immigration passage and fees in return for work in the New World
• servants entered into their contracts voluntarily and kept some of their legal rights
• servitude was so valuable that there was no need for slaves until the 19th century
• servants had little control over their work and were sometimes a part of harsh and brutal treatment

Which event singularly most prompted the shift from indentured servitude to African slavery?

• Shay's Rebellion
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Stono rebellion
• Pueblo Rebellion