Unit 1 - Colonial Foundations Practice

The Mayflower Compact (1620) and the Virginia House of Burgesses ( 1619) are early examples of

• restrictions on religious freedom

• steps toward representative self government

• resistance to British rule

• economic systems in the colonies

During the 1600s and 1700s, the fundamental goal of British mercantilism was to

• prohibit all exports of raw materials from the colonies

• encourage economic competition with the American colonies

• develop manufacturing within the colonies

• maintain a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain with its colonies

The Virginia House of Burgesses and the mayflower Compact had a similar effect in that both

• reinforced the English Parliaments control over the Colonies

• gave settlers the power to establish colonies

• contributed to the development of representative democracy

• granted absolute authority to the colonial governers

The mayflower Compact of 1620 is considered an important step in the development of democracy in America because it

• expressed the importance of self government

• established religious freedeom

• created the first colonial judiciary

• granted all males the right to vote

Which title best completes the partial outline below?

I. _____________________________

A. Virginia House of Burgesses

B. Mayflower Compact

C. New England town meetings

• Developments in Colonial Self Government

• Colonial Efforts to Abandon British Rule

• Attempts by colonial leaders to form a National government

• colonial organizations established by the British parliament

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

I.____________________________________

A. Villages with town meetings

B. Small farms and commercial fishing

C. First American college

• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Spanish Colonies

The British benefited from their mercantilist relationship with the American colonies primarily by

• supporting the growth of colonial industries

• prohibiting colonists from fishing and fur trading

• taking large amounts of gold and silver from the southern colonies

• buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them finished products

In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly to the

• middle colonies role as the chief importers of agricultural products

• rapid industrialization of the southern colonies

• decline of the New England economy

• increased importation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere

Climatic conditions in the southern colonies most directly influenced the development of

• democratic institutions

• a canal system

• the plantation system

• the coal industry

Which geographic feature was most important for the development of commerce in the New England and middle colonies?

• limited rainfall

• natural harbors

• long growing season

• mountainous terrain