APUSH Period 2 Review

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

Which of the following groups were the authors of the Maryland Act of Toleration trying to protect?

• Jews
• Puritans
• Quakers
• Roman Catholics

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

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.

The purpose of the Navigation Acts was to 

• Restrict colonial trade with other countries
• Expand colonial trade
• Strengthen England's Navy
• Make the colonies self-sufficient

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

Which of the following was NOT a result of the First Great Awakening?

• a number of colleges were founded
• more Christian denominations were formed
• the Old Lights split from churches 
• a greater allegiance to the king of England

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.
• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.
• Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
• the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.